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Cryptocurrencies are making inroads into traditional capital markets territory, and there is certainly money to be made, but, as Tuesday’s hard fork in Bitcoin shows, the market has a long way to go before it is sufficiently stable to be anything more than a curiosity. -
One of the murkiest areas of modern finance, as of Tuesday, fell under the scrutiny of the US regulatory authorities. The booming cryptocurrency industry has hitherto provided an unregulated source of free capital to tech start-ups, but those days could be over.
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The cryptocurrency market is renowned as one of the most volatile and unpredictable sectors of finance. It has blossomed throughout 2017, providing an unregulated means for start-ups to raise capital, until Tuesday evening when the US Securities and Exchange Commission published a report making it abundantly clear that the Wild West days of the crypto-asset market are numbered, if not yet over. Lewis McLellan reports.
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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are the hot new way to raise capital — $1.2bn has been raised in 57 launches this year (according to a report by Autonomous) — and the appeal for start-ups is obvious. However, with investors piling in with no regard for long-term value, it’s a bubble waiting to burst.
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Daimler and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg launched on Wednesday the first Schuldschein issue to be sold using blockchain technology.
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Daimler and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg have launched on Wednesday the first Schuldschein issue to be sold using blockchain technology.
