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A new platform expects to host the first European bonds to be issued on a blockchain in September. -
The cryptocurrency market is sensationally hot. The pace at which new money is flooding into the market is staggering. Some of the hype might turn out to be justified, but there are plenty of ridiculous ideas getting swept up in the palaver. Here are nine of the best.
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Filecoin, one of the first cryptocurrencies to function in explicit compliance with SEC securities regulation, is set to launch on Thursday on a platform called Coinlist, a fund-raising platform to help start-ups run their own "initial coin offerings". The offering is a test of whether the controversial capital raisings can function in accordance with rules designed for shares and bonds.
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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.
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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.
