UTRUST Crypto Payments Names Sanja Kon VP of Global Partnerships
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Names Pamela C. Dyson As Its CIO
Coinbase Sets Michael Li As Its First VP Of Data
Blockchain’s Veridium Labs Names William Wei As CEO
Blockchain Professorship Title For Olinga Taeed At Birmingham U Believed To Be A First
Huobi Japan Holding, a wholly owned subsidiary of cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, has agreed to acquire majority stake in Japanese crypto exchange BitTrade.
BitTrade is one of 16 crypto exchanges licensed by Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA). In June of this year,
The Bank of Korea (BOK), the country’s central bank, has called for continued monitoring into local crypto markets to nullify the so-called ‘kimchi premium’ in cryptocurrency prices.
Earlier this year, cryptocurrencies, such bitcoin and ethereum, were traded far higher in the South Korean market compared to spot prices on global exchanges.
Financial services giant Citigroup has reportedly developed a new mechanism that makes cryptocurrency investments less risky.
Citing sources familiar with the latest development, Business Insider reported that Citigroup has created a “Digital Asset Receipt” (DAR), which will offer institutional investors a direct way of making crypto investments without the need to own them.
Asset manager Grayscale Investments has created a new investment trust for privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zen.
Grayscale Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, is best known for its Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), which provides titled, auditable bitcoin exposure through a traditional investment vehicle.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced that it will be rolling out a number of new British pounds (GBP) trading pairs on September 7 for UK-based customers.
Last month, Coinbase added support for GBP, which enabled faster payments with same day deposits and withdrawals from Coinbase to British bank accounts.
Digital asset trading platform Cryptofacil has teamed with cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex to create a crypto trading platform that will offer over 200 digital tokens.
The crypto trading platform will combine Cryptofacil’s team in charge of the customer operations, including compliance,
Abolhassan Firoozabadi, secretary of Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council, said that various government ministries have agreed to officially recognize crypto mining as an industry.
According to local news outlet IBENA, Firoozabadi stressed that mining of cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, has been accepted as an industry in the government and all related organizations,
Crypto trading platform ShapeShift has introduced a membership program which will soon be mandatory for all users of the previously account-less exchange.
ShapeShift gives crypto users the power to quickly swap between assets. It does not collect personal data on its customers and exchanges one cryptocurrency for another without ever collecting customer funds into company accounts,
Blockchain Intelligence Group (BIG) has signed a client agreement with Japanese FinTech firm Quoine. The deal is BIG’s second client agreement with a major exchange.
Headquartered in Canada, BIG is a global technology company offering innovative search,
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has collaborated with regulators in Japan, the UK, and Switzerland to study cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings (ICO).
In its 2017-18 annual report, SEBI revealed that it sent officials to three countries to study how international regulators deal with cryptocurrencies and gain deeper understanding of their systems and mechanisms.
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