Kripto Mobile Corporation teams up with Dash Text
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Latin Americans provided with Dash ecosystem KRIP phones

Dash, the digital currency for payments and e-commerce, has announced an exclusive relationship with Kripto Mobile Corporation (KRIP), a mobile brand of cryptocurrency-enabled phones, to provide Latin Americans with a new, affordable way of acquiring and using cryptocurrencies for everyday transactions. The phones come pre-loaded with a complete Dash ecosystem, including the Dash wallet, the…

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sfc bans
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC bans individual for a year

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has announced that it has banned Ms Fonia Kwok Lai Kwan from re-entering the industry for 12 months from 25 August 2018 to 24 August 2019 following her conviction for unlicensed asset management. The Eastern Magistrates’ Court found that between 2009 and 2015, Kwok, who was the…

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Deribit launches a trading product that tracks the Bitcoin price
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deribit launches a trading product that tracks the Bitcoin price

Deribit, the Bitcoin futures and options exchange, has announced that it is launching the Deribit Perpetual, a trading product that tracks the Bitcoin price. Deribit's trading platform is able to handle thousands of order requests per second with a transaction speed of around only a few milliseconds per order. The Perpetual allows traders to take…

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B21 launches education app for cryptocurrency investors B21Life
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

B21 launches education app for cryptocurrency investors B21Life

B21, the wealth manager exclusively for crypto assets, has announced the launch of its free, interactive B21Life mobile app for Android and iOS. The first app to go live from B21, B21Life educates newcomers about cryptocurrencies, the technology behind them, and the investment process. The app provides training courses, simple explanations of crypto terms, and…

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crypto scam protection interview
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Scammers nick $4.4M in 2018 from online bank access: ACCC

Scammers are increasingly catching out people by impersonating well-known businesses or the police so they can get access to computers and steal money or banking information. The ACCC’s Scamwatch website has recorded a significant spike in these types of scams, known as remote access scams, with more than 8000 reports recorded in 2018 so far…

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forex market update
August 27, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

ATFX Forex weekly market update: August 27, 2018

The following article was written by ATFX Chief Analyst of Asia Pacific, Martin Lam. Federal Reserve Chairman Powell further established the Fed's monetary policy in a speech at the Jackson Hole Global Bank Central Bank's annual meeting on last Friday. However, Powell revealed that the Fed’s monetary policy rate hike conditions must increase inflation rate…

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