Search Results for: digital currency
Commonwealth Bank to launch Ripple payments between its subsidiaries
May 29th, 2015
CIO of the bank, David Whiteing, believes digital currency technology like Ripple is where the future of payments is heading The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will soon launch Ripple technology for its subsidiaries to transfer payments between them, ...
Top 10 Countries in Which Bitcoin is Banned
May 27th, 2015
Countries around the world have a wide ranging view of the digital currency bitcoin or a “virtual currency.” Western superpowers like the United States and United Kingdom have shown a positive attitude towards the new technology. Some countries like Canada and Australia are ...
Russia Lifts Bitcoin Ban
May 25th, 2015
Since the middle of the last year, the Russian government has been discussing the possible ban and criminalization of digital currency. Some Bitcoin related sites have even been blocked in a move that forced many of the Bitcoin Russian startups to ...
Bitcoin-Based Investment Fund Added to IG
May 25th, 2015
The first fund to offer bitcoin investment as part of a bespoke portfolio has launched on global derivatives trading platform IG, the UK’s largest forex provider. Launched in late 2014, funding platform Invest Your Way (IYW) will enable traders to invest ...
Indian Banking Relationships Disappear as Bitcoin Exchanges Field Questions from Authorities
May 12th, 2015
Earlier this week, Indian Bitcoin exchange BTCXIndia shut down after a banking partner closed the account for an undisclosed reason. Unocoin, an Indian Bitcoin exchange which raised funding from Barry Silbert’s Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., was questioned by local authorities ...
US authorities throw the book at Ripple Labs
May 6th, 2015
Ripple Labs has been fined $700,000 by the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in the first successful civil enforcement action against a virtual currency exchange. According to the charge sheet brought by US authorities, Ripple Labs, and its ...
Bitcoin brokerage Circle gets $50 million investment
April 30th, 2015
Bitcoin brokerage Circle Internet Financial Inc said it closed a $50 million (32 million pounds)investment round led by Goldman Sachs and IDG Capital Partners. The company also said it will start giving customers the ability to hold, send, and ...
BitGo and Genesis Trading to build institutional bitcoin trading platform
April 27th, 2015
BitGo, the leading bitcoin security platform, today announced that it has partnered with Genesis Trading, the first broker-dealer in the US, regulated by FINRA and the SEC, to specialize in trading bitcoin. BitGo and Genesis Trading will work together ...
Dogecoin Founder Exits Crypto Community Citing ‘Toxic’ Culture
April 24th, 2015
Dogecoin founder and Adobe senior manager Jackson Palmer has announced he is taking an “extended leave of absence” from the cryptocurrency community. Calling the ecosystem “toxic”, Palmer used the occasion to blast aspects of the industry, while encouraging users ...
NYDFS Expects Final BitLicense ‘Very Soon’
April 17th, 2015
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) suggests it is moving steadily toward the release of a finalized BitLicense under which digital currency businesses would be regulated in the state. Following the end of a comment period ...
