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  • The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday slapped down the possibility of new cryptocurrency exchange traded funds until “significant outstanding questions” were answered with regards to investor protections.
  • The European Securities and Markets Authority on Thursday kept up the pressure on providers of complex retail derivatives products by announcing a short consultation on crack-down measures, including a potential ban on cryptocurrency contracts for difference.
  • Bitcoin has, since its creation, been a wild ride. Volatility is part of its charm — after all, where else do you get more than 1,500% growth in a year? But if, or when, it crashes for good, how would it play out?
  • Cryptocurrencies overtook venture capital as the dominant form of fundraising for start-ups in 2017. Now, a grown-up, publicly listed company is getting in on the action. Investment banks would do well to take notice.
  • Kodak will hold an initial coin offering (ICO) on January 31 to sell Kodakcoin, the first cryptocurrency to be issued by a listed company, putting the burgeoning asset class in competition with established capital markets products like shares and bonds.
  • With all the excitement around bitcoin and its introduction into established futures markets at the end of 2017, it is perhaps not surprising that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s first public order of business in 2018 has addressed those markets.