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English Premier League champions Manchester City have been suspended from European football for the next two years and fined $32.6 million. The Manchester club plan to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Will manager Pep Guardiola remain at the club with no European football for two years? I admit to a
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Seed CX is expanding its European services with the addition of eight new order books for its spot-trading market.Seed Commodities Market, the Chicago-based firm’s spot market, announced Monday that it's created euro trading pairs against bitcoin, ether, litecoin, bitcoin cash, Paxos dollar, TrueUSD, USDC and the U.S. dollar. It's also
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Former Huobi counsel and regional director Josh Goodbody is shifting to a similar role at Binance, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges by trading volume.Goodbody comes aboard as the exchange's new director of European and Latin American Growth and Institutional Business, Binance announced Thursday. He was most recently head
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A strict new regulatory regime is dawning upon European firms handling cryptocurrency.Friday marks the deadline for the European Union’s 28 member nation-states to adopt the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive or AMLD5. The new rules require crypto exchanges and custodial service providers to register with their local regulator, and demonstrate compliance
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On Jan. 3 Spain-based CaixaBank added the blockchain-powered finance platform We.trade to its list of services. CaixaBank has now become one of the first banks in Europe to provide its customers access to blockchain technology.Launched in 2017, We.trade is a finance platform powered by IBM’s blockchain technology. It was developed
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On December 17, the European Central Bank (ECB) published a report that showcased its blockchain technology proof-of-concept. One particular feature the central
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In January 2020, the regulatory landscape for crypto businesses will completely change in the European Union in comparison with the last decade — and these changes will touch all those who store clients’ crypto funds or provide fiat-to-crypto exchange services, at minimum.Not long ago, the Anti-Money Laundering regulations were
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Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank has affirmed his doubts over cryptocurrency, claiming that it can never become the future and replace fiat currency.Trichet is merely the latest anti-crypto member with a banking background to express a dislike over the new emerging technology of cryptocurrency that is
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Facebook’s announcement in June to launch its own cryptocurrency, Libra, met a lot of obstacles as countries including France and Germany claimed that the use of Facebook’s digital currency in their territories could be a potential risk for their financial sector.In accordance with that assessment, recently a European Union draft
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A draft document issued by the European Union suggests that the union should consider issuing its own digital currency.Will the EU wage war on crypto?Reuters reported on Nov. 5 that the draft in question — which is still subject to amendments — urges member states to develop a common
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