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According to a new law coming into effect next week, some German investment funds will be able to hold up to 20% in digital assets. This comes amid growing demand from various institutions towards the industry. Germany’s Next Crypto Move As per a Bloomberg report from July 30th, Spezialfonds – German investment funds with fixed rules – will be able to allocate as much as 20% of their holdings in digital assets. Those funds reportedly manage around 1.8 trillion euros or $2.1...

By partnering with the German online retail platform comdirect, 21Shares AG will enable investors to purchase BTC and other digital assets for their savings accounts. Crypto as a Saving Option 21Shares AG, the Swiss-based investment product issuer, has partnered with the large German online brokerage – comdirect – to bring its cryptocurrency exchange-traded products, or ETPs, to the latter’s savings plan program (Spar plan). As a result, comdirect’s nearly three million...

The story between Dogecoin and Tesla has a new, somewhat unexpected development coming from Europe. A German taxi company that has only Tesla cars has enabled its customers to use DOGE to pay for their rides. CryptoPotato reached out to the firm, called Tesla Taxi Aschaffenburg, to check out why it went that doggy road, what’s the endgame, and are people actually using the meme coin as a payment method. Use Dogecoin to Pay for Tesla Taxis in Germany The Germany-based taxi...

Cryptocurrency developments in Europe are emerging left and right as four issuers received approvals to list exchange-traded products on different exchanges, including in Paris and Amsterdam for the first time. Additionally, Germany’s regulated exchange for crypto assets released a mobile trading app for Android and iOS users. Four Issuers Launched Crypto ETPs in Europe With CoinShares leading the way with exchange-traded products tracking the performance of Bitcoin,...

WisdomTree Investments, a NY-based fund manager, has launched a physically-backed Ethereum ETP on two European stock exchanges through its local subsidiaries. This becomes the organization’s second crypto-related ETP released in the past month, after an exchange-traded product following the performance of Bitcoin. WisdomTree’s ETH ETP Live in Europe Headquartered in New York, WisdomTree Investments is an exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product sponsor, and an asset...

Germany’s Financial Supervisory Authority is investigating Binance for its offering of tokenized shares and is already holding a preliminary opinion that doesn’t look too encouraging for the world’s leading crypto exchange. According to a legal opinion published on its official website, the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht —or simply BaFin— considers that Binance would be violating securities laws by issuing shares of publicly traded companies like Tesla,...

Germany’s leading stock exchange, Deutsche Boerse AG, plans to delist COIN – the shares of the largest American cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase. The organization justified its decision with wrongfully inserted reference data, which has to be resolved before COIN is relisted.  Reuters reported earlier today Deutsche Boerse’s intentions to remove the shares of Coinbase from its trading platform.  The large exchange breached “missing reference data for these shares” as the...

Lost or forgotten passwords to bitcoin and cryptocurrency accounts typically lead to money that cannot be accessed, and according to German prosecutors, this appears to have hindered a recent case of criminal fraud involving bitcoin mining.Lost Passwords Remain a Serious IssueAt the time of writing, law enforcement agents in Germany are holding a man – who currently remains anonymous – that has stored as many as 1,700 bitcoin units in a specific account. The big clincher is that the man...

After the launch of short Bitcoin (SBTC) ETP on Boerse Stuttgart, Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, the crypto trading product is now available on Xetra. This is a significant breakthrough for 21 Shares, which has already tasted success with eleven other institutional-grade crypto exchange-traded products.Short Bitcoin ETP Gets Listed on Deutsche XetraGermany is Europe’s economic powerhouse.Back in February, when 21 Shares announced the launch of their Short Bitcoin (SBTC) ETP on...

Germany’s financial regulator has come down hard on Bitcoin ATMs that are operating in the country without a license.BaFin Clampdown on Unlicensed Bitcoin ATMsAccording to a report by Handelsblatt, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) targeted operators of Bitcoin ATMs that were working in the country illegally. Only BTC machines with a BaFin license according to the German Banking Act can function in Germany.The report further reveals that the operator of BTC ATMs under...