OKEx Now Supports Financial Innovation Project Universal Market Access (UMA)
Universal Market Access (UMA), an open-source, permissionless, and censorship-resistant protocol for financial innovation has achieved a milestone by
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Financial Postmodernism and the Great Inflation Debate
This Best of The Breakdown August 2020 edition features commentary from Hugh Hendry, Preston Pysh and Adam Tooze. August has come to a close. In this recap and “best of” episode, NLW looks at the big themes that defined the month. Most notable was the discussion of inflation culminating in the
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Japanese Financial Giant SBI Holdings Launches Short-Term Crypto Derivatives
Already live on SBI's forex trading platform, the contracts for difference (CFDs) are available in bitcoin, ether and XRP flavors. Source
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UK FCA wants to include crypto firms in financial crime reporting rules
Cryptocurrency firms in the United Kingdom could soon be faced with more extensive Anti-Money Laundering (AML) reporting requirements.In a consultation paper published this month, the Financial Conduct Authority proposed broadening annual financial crime reporting obligations to include all crypto asset exchange and custodian wallet providers.The regulator says that by extending
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UK Financial Watchdog Grants Licenses to Archax and Gemini
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has granted operational licenses to two cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the country: digital security exchange Archax and the UK branch of the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini exchange.According to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) website, both Archax and Gemini Europe Services are currently registered in the U.K.
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CFTC Chair: ‘A Large Part’ of Financial System Could End Up in Blockchain Format
Perfection shouldn’t be the enemy of good when it comes to regulating the cryptocurrency space, said Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert. The nation’s top commodities regulator, who recently marked his first anniversary at the CFTC, detailed his approach to cryptocurrency in a wide-ranging interview with CryptoX. Tarbert noted
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Bitcoin Gets Status of ‘Money’ Under D.C. Financial Services Law
In a court case hearing involving the use of Bitcoin for transferring funds for illicit activities of drug trafficking, the District Court of Colombia has considered Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as “money”.On Friday, July 24, a Federal Court announced that the world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin gets the status of “money” under
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Financial Data Privacy is Under Attack
Place/Date: - July 23rd, 2020 at 11:24 pm UTC · 2 min read Contact: Lumi Wallet, Source: Lumi Wallet Lumi Wallet’s CEO Diana Furman, Global Data Privacy & Protection Expert Debbie Reynolds, and Brady Dale a CoinDesk Reporter discussed the latest scandals relative
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BNP Paribas Joins IBM Cloud for Financial Services
BNP Paribas has committed to joining the IBM Cloud for Financial Services as its anchor client in Europe. It is the first step in creating an ecosystem for the platform on the European continent. Technology giant IBM (NYSE: IBM) has revealed that several financial institutions have joined the IBM Cloud for
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Gibraltar Financial Services Commission Grants DLT Licence to Currency.com – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs
Regulated crypto assets platform Currency.com has been awarded a full Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) licence that will allow
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