Even though there’s currently no official word from the company, it has been reported that China’s Bitmain Technologies – one of the largest crypto mining manufactures in the world – has secretly made an official application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to float an initial public offering (IPO). The move is also said to be fully backed by a German multinational financial services company, Deutsche Bank.Because it is supposedly a secret filing, there aren’t...
Read More »Canaan Officially Files for $400 Million IPO on Nasdaq
One of the biggest bitcoin miner manufacturers, the Avalon Bitcoin miner Canaan Creative, publicly filed for a U.S. Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Monday, with big names as underwriters. Credit Suisse, Galaxy Digital, Citigroup, China Renaissance, CMBI, Huatai Securities and Tiger brokers are obliged to pay for and accept delivery of the ADSs offered by this prospectus.The second-largest manufacturer of ASIC mining hardware after Bitmain, Canaan plans to list its shares on Nasdaq under the...
Read More »INX Crypto Trading Platform Will Use Brave New Coin’s BTC and ETH Indices for Forthcoming IPO
Photo: ShutterstockPer a recent announcement, blockchain and cryptography data and research company Brave New Coin (BNC) has said that its cryptocurrency indices will now be applied by crypto trading service INX, as it prepares to launch its first fully approved security token sale. INX is focused on making sure that its offerings and practices are strict and as transparent as possible, a decision that has pointed the digital asset trading service in the BNC direction.According to BNC, INX...
Read More »Apple Starts Week with the Record Market Cap of $1.09T
It’s already widely known that the multinational tech company Apple Inc. (AAPL) has again joined the trillion-dollar society hitting the trillion-dollar market cap mark for the fourth time.At the time of writing, Apple stock was trading premarket 1.73% higher to $240.51, the highest in history. Apple’s market cap started the week at $1.09 trillion.There are some analysts who think shares might jump even more – to be precise 20 percent more during this year because of the strong iPhone 11...
Read More »The Evolving Role of Exchanges
Photo: ShutterstockThe role of a digital asset trading platform has advanced well beyond a forum to arrange trades between buyers and sellers.This expanded role carries with it an evolving set of expectations from speculative traders and investors. It becomes imperative for them to understand the multi-faceted role of a trading platform, and different aspects of cooperation between digital asset projects, the platform, and supporting agencies referred to as Liquidity Specialists or...
Read More »Cryptoindex.com’s CIX100 Index Get Listed on NASDAQ
The future seems brighter for the NASDAQ platform with the listing of Cryptoindex’s CIX100 index. Cryptoindex is one of the performing indexes for investors in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.This news is encouraging for the crypto market at large. Openings with such scale, particularly those of neuro-based projects, confirm that classical exchange networks are more than ready for innovation and reflect a massive acceptance that’s looming. Initially, the CIX100 Index was listed on TradingView,...
Read More »Vanguard Joins Nasdaq-backed Symbiont for Blockchain Platform for Currency Trades
Photo: Vanguard / TwitterMutual funds giant Vanguard Group is working with blockchain startup Symbiont, backed by Nasdaq Ventures, to create a blockchain-based trading platform for asset managers to trade currencies in the $6 trillion currency market.This step by Vanguard would be a major disruption in the currency market which is currently dominated by banking giants JPMorgan and Citi Group. By leveraging the blockchain-powered peer-to-peer trading for investors, Vanguard plans to allow...
Read More »ICE, NASDAQ, CME Urge FCA Not to Restrict Crypto Derivatives for Retail Investors
The World Federation of Exchange (WFE), which is made up of the globe’s giant stock exchanges such as Deutsche Boerse, the London Stock Exchange, Korea Exchange, CME Group, and Nasdaq, has requested the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom not to illegalize crypto derivatives for retail users.The WFE made the official announcement in reply to the financial regulator’s consultation document on potentially restricting crypto derivatives like Bitcoin futures as well as...
Read More »Dow Futures Plunge as China Hints at No Compromise in U.S.-China Trade Talks
The U.S. and China are all set to engage in discussion this Thursday, October 10, over the year-long trade dispute between the economic giants. The world is observing these events closely as they will set the tone for the future global economic scenario.While the Trump administration has set some demands and policy changes, China has shown a strong reluctance to it. According to the latest Bloomberg report, China has narrowed down the scope for the upcoming discussions. Beijing officials have...
Read More »Nasdaq Stifles IPOs of Small Chinese Companies
Nasdaq has officially begun taking deliberate steps to stifle as much as possible, initial public offerings (IPOs) of small Chinese companies going public in the U.S. The index, according to a Reuters report, is doing this by slapping several restrictions on these firms and frustrating their efforts for approval. Supposedly, the Nasdaq index is doing this because the majority of these firms usually end up raising most of their initial capital from Chinese backers, rather than investors in the...
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