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John Kiff

Bahrain's Regulatory Sandbox Teeming With Crypto Companies - 0 views

www.americancryptoassociation.com/...atory-sandbox-crypto-companies

CryptoAssets Fintech Regulation

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    Thirty companies are currently approved by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) for its regulatory sandbox, half of which are crypto service providers including exchanges.
John Kiff

SEC's Digital Asset Framework Falls Short - 0 views

www.marketsmedia.com/al-asset-framework-falls-short

CryptoAssets Regulation ICOs Fintech

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  • John Kiff on 30 Apr 19
     
    Since the US SEC's FinHub issued its analysis framework for digital investment contracts approximately a month ago, the long-awaited guidance likely has extended the digital asset winter rather than ending it.
John Kiff

The Riksbank proposes a review of the concept of legal tender - 0 views

www.riksbank.se/...of-the-concept-of-legal-tender

Fintech CBDC

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    The Riksbank proposes that a committee be tasked with reviewing the concept of legal tender and role of central bank money in a digitalised economy, and the role and responsibility of both the state and the private sector on the payment market.
John Kiff

Bitcoin is a Demographic Mega-Trend: Data Analysis - Spencer Bogart - Medium - 0 views

medium.com/...end-data-analysis-160d2f7731e5

Fintech CryptoAssets Bitcoin

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    The survey results highlight that Bitcoin is a demographic mega-trend led by younger age groups. The only area where older demographics matched younger demographics was awareness: Regardless of age, the vast majority of the American population has heard of Bitcoin.
John Kiff

Gemini Partners with Harbor to Fund Investments Leveraging Gemini Dollars - 0 views

medium.com/...ng-gemini-dollars-b00ac876b994

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins Tokenization

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    Gemini is partnering with Harbor, an all-in-one platform for tokenized securities offerings, to allow users to invest in deals using Gemini dollars (GUSD) and receive any future distributions or dividends of such deals in GUSD.
John Kiff

Tether Lawyer Admits Stablecoin Now 74% Backed by Cash and Equivalents - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/backed-by-cash-and-equivalents

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Tether Liquidity

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    Tether has cash and cash equivalents (short term securities) on hand totaling approximately $2.1 billion, representing about 74 percent of the current outstanding tethers.
John Kiff

A platform for innovation - remarks by Mark Carney | Bank of England - 0 views

www.bankofengland.co.uk/...ate-finance-global-summit-2019

Fintech

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    BoE Governor Carney highlights the opportunities offered by Fintech, saying we're moving to a new kind of economy, which needs new kinds of financial services. He explains what the BoE is doing to embrace and support this financial innovation.
John Kiff

Bitfinex Is Planning to Issue an Exchange Token, Shareholder Says - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/xchange-token-shareholder-says

Fintech CryptoAssets Tether Liquidity

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    Beleaguered Bitfinex may soon issue a proprietary exchange token. The issuance method could be similar to that of other exchange tokens, which were distributed through pre-paid trading fee packages.
John Kiff

China's Tencent to Develop Blockchain Medical Tools With Waterdrop After Investment - 0 views

cointelegraph.com/...ith-waterdrop-after-investment

Fintech Insurance Blockchain

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    Tencent will work with Waterdrop, which forms part of China's rapidly-expanding crowdfunded health insurance industry, to leverage Tencent's existing presence and experience in the field to create as yet undefined blockchain tools.
John Kiff

ICE's Bakkt Announces Acquisition of Digital Asset Custody Company - 0 views

cointelegraph.com/...-digital-asset-custody-company

Fintech CryptoAssets Custody Regulation

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    Institutional crypto trading platform Bakkt has аcquired a crypto custodian service Digital Asset Custody Company, and filed an application with the New York Department of Financial Services to operate as a trust company.
John Kiff

Indian Government departments discuss draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies - 0 views

economictimes.indiatimes.com/...69048480.cms

Fintech CryptoAssets Regulation

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    The Indian government has kicked off inter-ministerial consultations on a draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies and regulate official digital currencies, according to informed sources.
John Kiff

Chinese Central Bank Fines Five Businesses in Beijing for Refusal to Accept Cash Payments - 0 views

www.chinabankingnews.com/...ing-for-refusal-to-accept-cash

CBDC Fintech

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    The People's Bank of China (PBOC) is ensuring that Chinese businesses continue to accept cash despite the rapid spread of mobile payments throughout the country's economy. On 23 April PBOC announced that it had fined five companies in Beijing for refusal to accept cash payments.
John Kiff

Bond Rating Agency Moody's Warns on Risks of Private Blockchains - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/n-risks-of-private-blockchains

Blockchain Fintech

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  • John Kiff on 29 Apr 19
     
    Rating agency Moody's has warned of several risks of private, centralized blockchains, inclusing that consensus mechanisms in private chains may not be as strong as those seen in public chains, or may be absent altogether.
John Kiff

Central Banks Like Blockchain But Aren't Decentralizing - 0 views

breakermag.com/chain-but-arent-decentralizing

Fintech CryptoAssets CBDC

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    The only takers to date for blockchain-based CBDC are minuscule island nations. This may indicate there is a case to be made for adopting a distributed ledger format in certain geographies. Or it may mean the product is dead on arrival.
John Kiff

DeFi Upstart Dharma Brokers $6.4 Million in Crypto Loans in First 3 Weeks - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/-crypto-loans-in-first-3-weeks

Fintech CryptoAssets Collateral Ethereum

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    "Crypto loan platforms are booming as ether holders look to mitigate portfolio losses endured during 2018's bear market."
John Kiff

The Blockchain Bandit - Ethercombing: Finding Secrets in Popular Places - 0 views

www.securityevaluators.com/...ethercombing

Fintech CryptoAssets Ethereum CyberRisk

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    Someone is stealing millions of dollars worth of Ethereum by guessing users' private keys. Normally this should be impossible, but lots of keys seem to be very weak. Researchers are unsure how those weak keys are being generated and used.
John Kiff

Virtual currency providers to be supervised by the Finnish FSA - 0 views

www.finanssivalvonta.fi/...l-currency-providers-on-15-may

Fintech CryptoAssets Regulation

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    Finland's Act on Virtual Currency Service Providers clarifies that the FSA will henceforth be statutorily required to register all crypto exchanges, custodian crypto wallet providers and cryptocurrency issuers operating in the country.
John Kiff

Mutual Owners, Mutual Funds: What We Know About the Bitfinex/Tether Scandal - 0 views

cointelegraph.com/...ut-the-bitfinex-tether-scandal

Fintech CryptoAssets Tether Stablecoins AltCoins

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  • John Kiff on 28 Apr 19
     
    In what seems to be one of the greatest crypto scandals 2019 has seen so far, the United States Attorney General in New York accused Bitfinex of using Tether's cash reserves to cover a rumored $850 million funding gap with reserves meant for backing the stablecoin. Both companies share the same owner.
John Kiff

The cost of cross-border payments needs to drop - 0 views

www.economist.com/...-border-payments-needs-to-drop

CrossBorder Fintech Remittances

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    In the long run the answer to the high cost of remittances is a shift away from expensive cash-based systems and a bypassing of banks and transfer firms altogether.
John Kiff

Bitcoin and Ethereum Trading Coming to E*Trade - 0 views

www.bloomberg.com/...unching-cryptocurrency-trading

CryptoAssets Liquidity Fintech

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    E*Trade Financial Corp. May be getting ready to let customers trade cryptocurrencies on its platform. The firm will start by adding Bitcoin and Ethereum, and will consider adding other currencies in the future.
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