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Singapore Financial Regulator releases updated guide for Initial Coin Offerings
December 5th, 2018
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city state’s central bank and financial regulator, has released an update to its guide for businesses looking to raise money through initial coin offerings (ICOs). The paper, titled A Guide to Digital ...
Cryptocurrencies are set to go mainstream in Malaysia
November 29th, 2018
Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank of Malaysia, moves to regulate the world of digital monies in the country from next year onwards. The move is expected to instill some public confidence in the viability of these tokens, and ...
The Robot lawyer Lisa; Clients in 80 countries have availed of Lisa’s skills
November 15th, 2018
Robot Lawyer LISA is officially a ‘cool vendor’ having been included in the Gartner 2018 ‘Cool Vendors in Artificial Intelligence for Small and Midsize Businesses’ report. LISA has also been nominated for AI Company of the Year in the ...
Hong Kong unveiled first set of rules governing the cryptocurrency market
November 2nd, 2018
Hong Kong’s financial watchdog unveiled on Thursday a comprehensive set of regulations governing cryptocurrencies in a move to enhance investor protection which analysts believe could help make the city a major trading centre for virtual assets, analysts said. The ...
5 ways the World Economic Forum says Artificial intelligence is changing banking
September 13th, 2018
Artificial intelligence has been a focus of discussions at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, over the past few years, so the organization decided to partner with Deloitte Consulting on a study that sought to “cut ...
Rakuten e-commerce giant buys a bitcoin exchange
September 3rd, 2018
Rakuten, Inc., the largest e-commerce site in Japan and among the world’s largest by sales, announced that it decided to acquire everybody’s bitcoin Inc. (hereinafter “everybody’s bitcoin”) through its subsidiary, Rakuten Card Co., Ltd. The acquisition is based on ...
EQT acquires Saxo Payments Banking Circle from Saxo Bank
July 9th, 2018
EQT VIII and EQT Ventures, in partnership with Saxo Payments Banking Circle’s founders and other co-investors, to acquire Saxo Payments Banking Circle Saxo Payments Banking Circle’s unique banking platform enables cross-border payments with reduced complexity, time and cost EQT ...
Initial Coin Offerings: A total of $13.7 billion USD raised the first five months of 2018; Report
July 5th, 2018
The Crypto Valley Association has teamed up again with Strategy&, the strategy and consulting division of CVA member PwC, to launch the June 2018 edition of their quarterly reports on the global Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market. The report, ...
44 Bitcoin forks have emerged within 10 months, crypto investors not convinced
June 26th, 2018
Bitcoin Private, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Atom, Bitcoin Candy, and Bitcoin Pizza are some of the 44 bitcoin forks that have emerged since the initial Bitcoin Cash hard fork in August of last year, as TNW reported. Within ...
Digital banking transformation creating new systemic risks
May 22nd, 2018
Digital banking transformation programmes are creating a new wave of operational and systemic risks for which the industry is ill-prepared, warns UK Finance. Sustainable Financial Services in the Digital Age, a joint report from UK Finance and Parker Fitzgerald, ...
