May 19, 2014 BY Mike Fox

CLS April FX volumes drop, confirming institutional slowdown - ADV down 14%

Monthly Volumes and Values, April 2014 Total Input Volumes and Values In April 2014: The average daily volume submitted to CLS, combining the settlement and aggregation services, was 983,850 down 14.9% from 1,155,507 in March. The average daily value submitted to CLS was US$4.79 trillion down 10.5% from US$5.35 trillion. *Input volumes are the number…

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May 19, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Rewriting the rule book: US government sets about regulating Bitcoin

A very poignant question which remains unanswered among senior government officials and crypto-currency proponents alike is how to regulate the unregulatable. By its very nature, the trading, sale, and generation of Bitcoin is purely peer to peer and borderless, rendering it outside the jurisdiction of national governments. Therefore, certain nations such as China and Thailand…

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