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• FSB sets out cryptocurrency monitoring framework

  

  The Financial Stability Board (FSB) on Monday laid out a framework to oversee the financial stability risks posed by the cryptocurrency market. However the body cautioned that some public data could be "manipulated" due to "prohibited practices such as wash trading, spoofing and pump and dump".

  • 16 Jul 2018

• Byte Me: FCoin and the Ether ‘attack’

  

  FCoin, a huge new cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is only two months old and was virtually unknown up until it brought the network of the second largest cryptocurrency in the world to a standstill and made a lot of people very angry.

  • 12 Jul 2018

• Nomura hires EMEA tech banker from Temasek

  

  Nomura has hired Nezahat Gultekin from Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek, to fill the new role of head of technology for investment banking in EMEA.

  • 11 Jul 2018

• SIX exchange to introduce digital asset trading, CEO hails "new era"

  

  Swiss market infrastructure operator SIX Group will combine digital asset trading, settlement and custody services in a new digital exchange for its customers. The CEO of SIX Group, Jos Dijsselhof, said it was the “beginning of a new era for capital markets infrastructure”.

  • 06 Jul 2018

• Chinese bitcoin miner joins Opera’s $115m Nasdaq IPO

  

  Opera’s planned $115m Nasdaq IPO now has a cryptocurrency angle after Bitmain, a Chinese bitcoin miner, joined the deal as an anchor investor.

  • 03 Jul 2018

• Byte Me: Bitcoin’s ticking timebomb

  

  If you’re thinking about getting hold of some bitcoin, you have 690 days to figure out what mining is. But if you don’t, you can still board the bitcoin boat, but it might turn out to be the Titanic.

  • 28 Jun 2018

• Technology to arrive at Swiss market with SIX initiative

  

  The Swiss Exchange (SIX), in conjunction with major Swiss franc bond market participants, is set to launch a digital platform called Deal Pool, in the hope of simplifying processes and breeding efficiency in the market. But it will likely change the role of bank sales desks substantially.

  • 28 Jun 2018

• Ebang becomes second bitcoin firm to seek HK IPO

  

  Ebang International Holdings has emerged as the second cryptocurrency mining hardware maker to file for a Hong Kong IPO, following in the footsteps of its much larger rival Canaan.

  • 25 Jun 2018

• Clearers work on blockchain margin call solution

  

  Four companies involved in clearing said on Tuesday they had completed a proof of concept using distributed ledger technology that they said will make margin calls for derivatives more efficient.

  • 19 Jun 2018

• What’s the point of investor protections?

  Are cryptocurrencies securities? If so, who can buy them? William Hinman of the Securities and Exchange Commission went some way to answering these questions last week, but why did he leave retail investors in the cold?

  • 18 Jun 2018

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