The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has announced that, on its meeting of 25th June 2018, has decided, pursuant to section 8(1)(a) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2017 (ΝI87(I)/2017), as in force (‘the Law’), to wholly withdraw the Cyprus Investment Firm authorisation with number CIF 216/13 of the…
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In the first six months of the year, there have been significantly more IPOs and listings of new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the cash markets of Deutsche Börse than in previous years. Trading volumes on the platforms Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange were also significantly higher than in previous years; in the first six…
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FCA and CySEC licensed Retail FX broker Exness has reported June FX trading volumes of $308.6 billion - down 22% from May's record $395 billion, but still very strong from a historical perspective. Exness averaged $269 billion in monthly volumes during 2017. Overall in the first half of 2018, Exness saw a total of $2.068 trillion of client…
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Secure cryptocurrency trading platform Blockbid has today announced their partnership with BitSpread as their liquidity provider, ensuring they continue to stand by their vision of ‘Trading with Confidence’. Aligned in their values of transparency and accountability, the partnership is a significant milestone for the trading platform as they look to strengthen their offering and position…
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LCH, a global clearing house, has announced that J.P. Morgan has gone live as CDSClear’s first US bank to offer client clearing. As a result, Swedish pension fund AMF is now clearing European and US credit default swaps through CDSClear, using J.P. Morgan Securities Plc as its clearing broker. This development is the latest achievement…
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The Australian digital currency exchange Independent Reserve has just announced that it will commence trading in Ripple (XRP) on 7 July, 2018. All XRP trades will be discounted to 0.1% for the first two weeks. XRP is the third largest digital currency by market cap after Bitcoin and Ether. Developed by Ripple Labs, the protocol and…
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Qiwi, the Russian e-payment provider is launching a cryptocurrency investment bank. The name of the bank will be HASH, as reported by Kommersant on June 29th. The bank will be founded by Qiwi Blockchain Technologies, which is a subsidiary of Qiwi. Qiwi is the leading provider of payment services in Russia and the CIS. The…
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Russia: Russia is moving forward with cryptocurrencies and their “legalization”. According to press, digital currencies in Russia will be categorized as “digital rights”. The new term will serve as differentiation to terms like “digital money” and “digital currency”. The whole change in name will be made mainly for tax purposes, as explained by Anatoly Aksakov,…
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Binance was recently the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in respect to volume traded. CoinMarketCap’s ranking of cryptocurrency exchanges recently changed to promote CoinEx as the largest exchange by traded volume. CoinEx is currently processing a trade volume of around $1.5 billion on a daily basis, while Binance handles around $ 1.3 billion. The third place…
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Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the international financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Finance Innovation, France’s official innovation cluster for the financial industry, based in Paris. The collaboration will support the development of the FinTech ecosystem in…
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