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  • 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?
  • When bitcoin futures were launched in December last year, there was excitement, fear and outrage all at once. Critics, including the Futures Industry Association, piled pressure on to US derivatives regulator the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, demanding better safeguards for such products. Cheerleaders may see the asset class as a great way to earn big in markets dogged by low yields but the doubters, of which Byte Me is one, may yet be proven right.
  • The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Monday made public its worries about cryptocurrency crime, advising banks on how they could properly scrutinise clients involved in the nascent sector.
  • Five Nordic banks have banded together for a Nordic Know Your Customer (KYC) venture that would cater to large and mid-sized Nordic corporates — an example of the kind of shared infrastructure project that banks need to bring their costs down.
  • Blockchain technology will be a wide ranging structural improvement to underlying infrastructure of the securitization market, said panellists on Wednesday, but the technology is going to need a “proof of concept” before institutions will be convinced to move away from legacy systems.
  • Algomi, a technology company hoping to bring electronification to secondary bond markets, has appointed a new CEO.