Major American investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co will give its wealth management clients access to a selection of cryptocurrency funds, becoming the largest and unlikeliest United States banking giant to open crypto trading to all clients. JPMorgan Expands Cryptocurrency Access JPMorgan’s financial advisors have been approved to execute trades with the shares of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Ethereum […]

Overseas crypto exchanges marketing to Koreans will be blocked if they fail to comply with new South Korean regulations. The country’s anti-money laundering body has sent a notice to a number of foreign trading platforms warning them a registration is mandatory in order to provide services to Korean residents. Korean Financial Intelligence Unit Notifies Foreign Crypto Exchanges of Registration Obligations […]

The European Commission has granted unconditional European Union antitrust approval to the proposals of IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) and CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) to form a joint venture combining their post-trade services. In its public confirmation on Thursday, the European regulator specified that it does not have any competition concerns with the formation of the joint venture. “The proposed transaction […]

The HOPR protocol provides network-level and metadata privacy for every kind of data exchange. Designed to be better than TOR, the mixnet protects the identity of both sender and recipient by routing data via multiple intermediate relay hops that mix traffic. Now the project launches staking with NFT rewards and you can earn over 18.25% APR. The HOPR Staking Program […]

Back in September 2017, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon ridiculed Bitcoin, calling it a fraud “worse than tulip bulbs.” For the uninitiated, he was referring to the 17th century Dutch tulip market bubble, one of the craziest bubbles in recorded history. Fast forward a few years, JPMorgan and other banking giants have been dipping their toes in the blockchain world. […]

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX) has published its financial results for the second quarter of 2021, reporting a clump in its business performance. The company operates an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities and also provides market data and post-trade services. The company generated total revenue of $176.3 million between April and June, which is 4.6 percent lower year-over-year. Operating […]

Leading music research and analytics platform Viberate (whose native token VIB is listed on Binance, Bittrex, OKEx, and Uniswap) just announced a strategic partnership with Travala.com, the popular cryptocurrency-friendly online travel booking platform. As the VIB token becomes integrated in the platform (joining Travala’s native AVA token), VIB token holders will be able to book over 3 million travel products […]

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) wrote a letter to the country’s Senate last week pointing out several risks in holding digital assets and calls for better regulations around the industry. “On major blockchain platforms such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, digital assets are associated with a user through an address. Whoever can access the address is effectively the custodian of the […]

The Turkish government has prepared a bill designed to implement new regulations for the country’s crypto space. The legislation, which will be filed in the parliament this fall, will introduce taxation for crypto holdings and specific capital requirements for companies operating with digital assets. New Legislation to Regulate Turkey’s Crypto Market Following in the footsteps of the West, Turkey is […]