Standard Chartered launches trading platform for cryptocurrencies
Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) wants to establish an institutional trading platform for cryptocurrencies in the UK and Europe. The new exchange is expected to launch…
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Digital Yuan ready for use as of 2022
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the Chinese central bank, plans to use their digital yuan during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. It could…
Hedge Funds Increasingly Interested in Cryptocurrencies
PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC) has published a comprehensive report on cryptocurrencies. The study provides an overview of how hedge funds and asset managers are dealing with…
Diem replaces Libra as Facebook stablecoin
Not much is left of the ambitious plans that Facebook presented to the public as Libra in the summer of 2019. The global corporation did…
FINMA approves regulated marketplace for digital assets
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has granted financial services provider Taurus SA a securities firm license to operate a regulated marketplace for digital…
World’s largest insurance company accepts Bitcoin
AXA is the first all-lines insurance company in Switzerland to offer its policyholders the option of paying bills in Bitcoin. In doing so, it is…
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) launches NFTs
Just ahead of the Coinbase IPO at Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is also venturing into the crypto world. With the launch of…
SEC Seeks Regulatory Clarity for Bitcoin
In the last year, much has happened in the regulatory area around. After a long period of restraint, authoritative legal foundations for digital assets have…
Kessel accepts Bitcoin as a payment method for their vehicles
Last Thursday, the Kessel Group presented at the digital congress “Classic Car Marketing” how modernity can be combined with tradition. Because for a good year…
Market review calendar week 15 – 2021
A summarizing review of what has been happening at the crypto markets of the past week. A look at trending sectors, liquidity, volatility, spreads and…