The Argentine peso and government bonds plummeted amid the crushing defeat of incumbent President Mauricio Macri in the primary. Meanwhile, bitcoin at local trading floors is trading at $ 300 higher than the average market price, while at Localbitcoins – and at all at $ 1000. Note, international investors fear the victory of the candidate from the opposition alliance "United Front" Alberto Fernandez, who […]
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The Financial Anti-Money Laundering Measures Development Group (FATF) has denied rumors about the creation of a certain system for collecting and exchanging personal data of individuals engaged in cryptocurrency transactions. This was the organization’s senior analyst Tom Neilan in a conversation with Finance Magnates. Previously, this information was disseminated by several media with reference to the Nikkei Asian Review, however, according to Neilan, […]
Technology giant IBM continues to actively explore the possibilities of blockchain technology. The company has filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for patenting a web browser based on distributed registry technology. According to the application, the browser will collect a predefined set of data during web browsing sessions, and then transfer them to peer network nodes for recording and storage on the blockchain. […]
Representatives of the People’s Bank of China said that soon their own digital currency will be launched in the country. It is reported by The Block with reference to Shanghai Securities News. So, the deputy head of the payment unit within the People’s Bank of China (NBK) Mu Changchun said that there is already a prototype of the digital currency, and the department’s research group has fully worked out the blockchain architecture for it. Issued […]
El capitalista de riesgo Tim Draper espera que el precio de Bitcoin (BTC) alcance los $ 250,000 tarde o temprano, sin embargo, fijar el estado de la criptomoneda como un…
In a conversation with Yahoo Finance CEO Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse said his company plans to enter into many investment contracts and acquisitions of third parties after investing in MoneyGram money transfer system. “Our position is very strong, the business is growing rapidly, we have a good balance and I intend to take advantage of these advantages,” said the head of Ripple. According to his […]
Robinhood International has received a broker license from the Financial Supervision Authority of Great Britain (FCA). We're excited to share that Robinhood International, Ltd. has been authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority to operate as a broker in the United Kingdom. This means we're one step closer to democratizing finance for all. Stay tuned for launch. […]
Representatives of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) confirmed their intention to speed up the development of their own digital currency, which, as experts suggest, is likely to replace traditional paper banknotes. This writes the AMBCrypto, citing the statement of the Central Bank of China on August 2. Also, China’s financial regulator noted that it will track the latest trends in the development of virtual currencies – like […]
The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg appointed a measure of restraint in the form of a subscription on recognizance not to suspect the creation of the supposed Russian Bitcoin-Pyramid – the Pro100business community. According to some estimates, about 60 thousand people were involved in it, and total investments could reach tens of millions of dollars. Reports about it Znak.com. Suspects Artem Yurzin, Yevgeny Lebedev and Ivan Kolnogorov were detained yesterday, […]
The draft law “On digital financial assets” should be adopted before November 1, 2019. Such an instruction to the Ministry of Finance and the State Duma was given by the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, reports RNS with reference to the minutes of the meeting with the head of government. The head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, who attended the meeting with the Prime Minister, confirmed the information. “At the meeting it was announced that before 1 […]