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Bitcoin Guru Anthony Di Iorio departs Canada’s TSX to focus on Jaxx wallet
November 29th, 2016
Bitcoin Guru Anthony Di Iorio, founder of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada and a co-founder of Ethereum and the first chief digital officer of TMX Group Ltd’s Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), has left the exchange. The reason behind his ...
Bitcoin Prices in India Soar Amid Demonetization Drive
November 15th, 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to combat the underground economy is a blessing in disguise for companies working in the cashless space, which includes mobile wallets, card companies and even bitcoin. Bitcoin, the eight-year old virtual currency, has been gaining ...
SETL and Deloitte joined forces to produce a contactless payments card
November 15th, 2016
London-based fintech company SETL and global auditing firm Deloitte DLTE.UL have joined forces to produce a contactless card that enables retail payments to be processed and settled almost instantly by the means of blockchain technology. The payment card, which ...
The world’s biggest bitcoin wallet provider will have a record month thanks to Trump
November 14th, 2016
The world’s biggest bitcoin wallet provider will “pretty easily” have its biggest ever month for activity in November, following a surge in use after Donald Trump’s shock election victory in the US. Peter Smith, the cofounder and CEO of ...
Gold and Bitcoin jumps after Trump win; investors seek safe assets
November 10th, 2016
Digital currency joins gold surge as bitcoin price climbs nearly 4% after Trump win Trump’s shock election wins sent shock-waves across the world’s financial markets. As uncertainty reigned supreme, investors turned away from equities and towards bitcoin. Joining the ...
Bitcoin Price Jumps on Trump Victory
November 10th, 2016
The shocking news of Donald Trump’s election victory rattled markets across the world, leading some investors to seek refuge in assets outside of stocks and bonds. The price of gold surged, as it usually does during times of uncertainty, ...
FCA UK unveils successful sandbox firms on the second anniversary of Project Innovate
November 7th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today marks the second anniversary of Project Innovate by announcing the firms that were successful in their applications to begin testing in the first cohort of the regulatory sandbox. The regulatory sandbox is part ...
China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
November 3rd, 2016
Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), China’s official interbank market trading platform, to its consortium to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. Headquartered in Shanghai, CFETS ...
Bitcoin Regulation is on Swiss Government’s Fintech-Friendly Agenda
November 3rd, 2016
Switzerland’s Federal Council has called for reducing the barriers seen by Fintech firms to enter the country which could see broader implications on the country’s regulatory stance on virtual currencies like bitcoin. In a meeting today, the Swiss Federal ...
ASIC and Ontario Securities Commission sign agreement to support fintech companies
November 3rd, 2016
Innovative fintech companies in Australia and Ontario, Canada will be able to draw on support from the combined resources of their financial regulators as they seek to operate in the others’ market, under a new agreement. Under the agreement, signed ...
