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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been granted an e-money license by the Central Bank of Ireland. Writing in a company blog Saturday, Coinbase UK CEO Zeeshan Feroz said the exchange is one of the very first firms to receive the
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Coinbase is expanding its European foothold with an e-money license from the Central Bank of Ireland.“One of just a few companies”On Oct. 11, Zeeshan Feroz, the CEO of the United Kingdom arm of San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, announced that the exchange had become “one of just a few
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The Ripple global takeover marches on with brand new European offices in an effort to further expand its presence in the region. The new Iceland office comes after a recent surge of interest in Europe, with Ripple fan Christine Legarde’ talking over the ECB Nov 1st. The new Icelandic team will play
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A joint organising team composed of the European Commission, INATBA, the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum and Alastria are putting on the first edition of Convergence, the Global Blockchain Congress to be held from November 11-13, 2019 in Málaga, Spain. advertisement Convergence aims to bring together a worldwide community of regulators, policy makers, industry influencers, C-suite and
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While addressing the committee on Digital Agenda of the Deutscher Bundestag, the chairman of the Committee on Payments and Markets Infrastructures (CPMI) and the European Central Bank (ECB) board member, Benoit Coeure, took the time to give an in-depth explanation on the challenges facing our age-long financial market, how digital
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Vakt, a blockchain-based post-trade platform for commodities, has signed a memorandum of understanding with essDOCS, a firm that develops paperless trade solutions, to put European shipping on the blockchain.As markets and technology-focused outlet Benzinga reported on Sept. 20, Vakt and essDOCS will work on a blockchain-based solution that will
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The Joint Research Centre at the European Commission has just published a new Blockchain tome (128 pages) called ‘Blockchain Now And Tomorrow – Assessing Multidimensional Impacts Of Distributed Ledger Technologies’ in order to help Brussels politicians with the European policymaking process when it comes down to Blockchain. The EC has
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a 60,000 euro ($66,400) grant for blockchain startup SpaceChain to commercially develop its satellite-powered, multi-sig wallet.According to an announcement published on Sept. 18, the new grant comes via ESA’s “kick-start activities” fund. SpaceChain’s project, if successful, also stands poised to secure additional
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The European Central Bank (ECB) plans to develop an alternative public cryptocurrency, according to a new report on Forbes.French and German government officials back the supposed ECB’s plans for a development of a digital currency, which could become a potential rival to Facebook’s Libra and Bitcoin(BTC)trade like other popular cryptocurrencies.
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Recently, a report by Der Speigel magazine in Germany indicates that the German government is against giving approval to private stablecoin issuers such as Facebook and its digital currency Libra.The report cites a member of the current government, Thomas Heilman, who called for caution against these stablecoin issuers. He said
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