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The Central Bank of Ireland has recently granted e-money license to crypto exchange Coinbase. This gives the crypto trading platform a license to expand its financial services throughout Europe.In a blog post last Saturday, October 12, Coinbase CEO Zeeshan Feroz said that this is a major milestone for the trading platform. Besides, Coinbase also begins the first company to get a license from the Irish Central Bank.A year ago Coinbase opened up its office in Dublin. Today’s announcement will...

The financial technology industry is booming and many investors have noticed that. In that context, investment in fintech ventures in Singapore rose rapidly. The latest reports from Accenture confirm that in the first 9 months of the current year, investors in Singapore brought a record $735 million into financial-technology deals. That represents a 69% surge from the prior-year period that raked in $435 million.Accenture came up with this data after analyzing reports from CB Insights,...

If you follow some of the best traders on Crypto Twitter (CT), you would think that trading with leverage is the best way to grow your crypto portfolio. After all, some of these traders post tremendous gains in short periods of time. Active trader shows off unrealized PnL of nearly 60%. | Source: TwitterWhile these traders flex their skills, they unwittingly make many of their followers think that trading is an easy game to play. Nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, a lot...

Photo: Binance BlogBinance has partnered with premier exchange-traded product Amun AG to create an ETP that has the BNB token as the primary asset but listed in US dollar value. This development was announced today by the leading cryptocurrency exchange. Trading of the newly developed product (the Amun BNB ABNB) has started on the Swiss SIX exchange today.Changpeng Zhao CEO Binance indicated this in a tweet as well.A MAJOR step. Now you can trade $BNB ETP on Swiss Stock Exchange (Ticker:...

Even though a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF) still has to assemble regulatory approval, Grayscale Investments manage to get a green light from FINRA in order to list, what it calls – the first publicly-traded digital currency index fund.After they’ve got Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s approval, the so-called Digital Large Cap Fund (DLC) will be listed on over-the-counter markets and trade under the initials GDLCF.This is company’s fourth publicly-quoted investment...

The Governor of Sweden’s Central Bank, Riksbank, said today that Facebook’s Libra has turned out to be a very important event. The bank has already been exploring the issuance of digital currencies, mainly because the usage of cash in Sweden is decreasing dramatically.Libra An Incredibly Important Catalytic EventDespite the recent shakedown which caused a lot of the key backers of Facebook’s Libra, including PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard, to drop off the project, good news seems to come from a...

After it seemed all the big-ones were leaving Facebook‘s backed cryptocurrency, it seems it still has its faithful believers. On Monday, in Geneva, Switzerland, 21 associations agreed to sign the Libra Association charter at last. The Libra Association named its board of directors as well a decision about people who will sit at the executive chairs.The first chair will be, as expected, Calibra’s CEO David Marcus who named 4 more people as his board fellows. That people are a partner with...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, a global derivatives marketplace with a wide range of futures and options products, has said that in the last quarter, its Bitcoin futures offering has increased considerably in popularity. According to the CME Group its open contracts surged by 61 percent in number from the same period about a year ago.The CME Group has said that the reason for this is a significant increase in demand from institutional entities that have increased their appetite...

An investor in the OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme is facing death threats after publicly speaking out about her ordeal. Besides death threats, Jen McAdam has also been threatened with sexual violence, according to the BBC. As one of the tens of thousands of victims who lost money in the OneCoin scam, McAdam was most recently featured in a BBC investigative podcast, The Missing Crypto Queen. The podcast dug deep into the disappearance of Ruja Ignatova, the founder of the pyramid scheme. Since...

The world’s leading car producers — BMW, General Motors, Ford, Renault, and Honda — have been working on the blockchain car identification and payment system under the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) since last year. Next month, automobile giants will start testing a vehicle identification network in the United States.As Nikkei Asian Review has reported, the car producers have an aim to integrate the blockchain system to automatically make payments on typical commuting routes. This...