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Paytm, India's leading digital payments company, said Thursday that it would consider Bitcoin services if the country's regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies was more definite.Speaking to Haslinda Amin and Rishaad Salamat during an interview on Bloomberg TV, Paytm's chief financial officer Madhur Deora stated that the rules surrounding Bitcoin (BTC) remain
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Commonwealth Bank will be the first in Australia to offer crypto services to customers, the bank said in a Wednesday statement.The bank will offer a crypto exchange and a custody service in collaboration with Gemini and intelligence firm Chainalysis.Customers will have access to 10 digital assets, including bitcoin, ether, bitcoin
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The infrastructure giant wants to hire a Financial Services Specialist to work with global financial institutions and innovative fintechs, and “transform the way they transact digital assets (ex. cryptocurrencies, CBDCs [central bank digital currencies], stable coins, security-backed tokens, asset-backed tokens and NFTs [non-fungible tokens]) from price discovery to execution, settlement
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The central bank of Spain is introducing new registration guidelines for local virtual currency service providers, or VASPs, including banking institutions.The Bank of Spain has issued instructions on VASP registration for Anti-Money Laundering, or AML, purposes, requiring institutions to submit their registration requests through an electronic registry, Cointelegraph en Español
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Payments giant Mastercard has partnered with a cryptocurrency exchange to allow its partners and merchants in the U.S. to offer crypto solutions, including the buying, selling, and holding of cryptocurrencies. “We want to offer all of our partners the ability to more easily add crypto services to whatever it is
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Banks in Spain are getting ready to offer crypto services to their clients, but are being frustrated by the lack of clarity from their central bank.The Bank of Spain said in June it would provide instructions for entities wishing to register to provide crypto services.The corresponding registry is meant to
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A South African regulator, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), says it welcomes Binance’s decision to stop offering some of its services to South Africans. Productive Consultations In a statement, the FSCA suggested that the move by the cryptocurrency exchange came after it held “productive consultations” with the regulator. As previously reported
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Filecoin has officially become the storage collaborator for the Flow Blockchain. Filecoin said in an Oct. 13 announcement that the move was a part of a push to ensure holders' and issuers' NFTs are "securely available everywhere." The announcement follows from a previous move in August in Which Dapper Labs
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The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has made a fresh bet on the financial services sector. According to a press release, the institution participated in a $145 million series E for Tala. A global technology company working on providing millions of people with access to lend, borrow, and other financial services Tala
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The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has grown exponentially during the past few years. Beginning with the launch of Ethereum (ETH) in mid-2015, application developers across the globe began to write smart contracts to support a wide range of decentralized applications (dApps). A few years later, other platforms such as EOS
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