Nomura Holdings, a Tokyo-based financial services company, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with an independent asset management firm SPARX Group to establish a listed investment firm for investment in unlisted companies. In an official announcement, Nomura mentioned that theJapanese have limited investment opportunities to support the growth of unlisted companies. The newly introduced joint venture aims […]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau within the US Treasury Department, announced yesterday that it has granted conditional approval to Anchorage Trust Company to become Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US. Bitcoin reacted positively to the recent announcement, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency jumped above $38,000. According to […]

Swissquote (SWX:SQN) has published its revised expectations for its 2020 revenue and profits, showing a solid jump from the previous estimates. The online trading services provider is now expecting a total annual pre-profit of CHF 105 million on revenue of CHF 315 million. Earlier, the company estimated the entire 2020 revenue to be CHF 300 million, along with a profit […]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey cited his passion for Bitcoin and decentralization in a 13-Tweet thread today explaining why the company banned U.S. President Donald Trump from the platform last week. Although claiming this was the “right decision for Twitter,” Dorsey admits it sets a dangerous precedent. Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other social media platforms on […]

Bitcoin is the talk of mainstream media, Wall Street, business, and more. No television segment on finance these days doesn’t include a mention of the top cryptocurrency. But it has unfortunately led to some serious blunders, and misinformation being spread. A recent example is especially laughable and demonstrates how poorly researched news anchors or their writers can be, as one […]

American television personality and entrepreneur, Mark Cuban thinks that the current Bitcoin market trend is similar to the dot com bubble burst caused by much speculation that inflated the stocks of internet companies.  Bitcoin had been on a rally and set a record for another ATH of over $40k. However, as experts predicted, an incoming wave of correction caused the […]

PRESS RELEASE. January 13, 2021 – T-Systems MMS, a subsidiary of the largest telecommunications provider in Europe, Deutsche Telekom, announces today a partnership with Flow blockchain developed by Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot. T-Systems’ flagship deployment on Flow will be the operation of an Execution Node. Validation Capital was involved in this partnership as strategic […]

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, or CME, recorded significant volume for its Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading product over the course of last 12 months. “More than 2.2+ million contracts were traded in 2020,” a CME representative told Cointelegraph. Each cash-settled Bitcoin futures contract at the CME is worth the dollar value of five Bitcoin. The trading hub recorded higher than normal numbers […]