The crypto community is grudgingly adjusting to a new measurement metric, one that many critics have demanded for some time, but, perhaps, not in its present form. There has always been a problem in the way that volumes are reported and aggregated by large data collection firms like CoinMarketCap.com (CMC). This particular aggregator is also…
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With one master stroke, it seems that Paris has suddenly become a “player” in the blockchain industry in Europe. A group of like-minded startups have pooled resources and set up the largest blockchain incubator of its kind in Europe. Known as “The Garage”, this new incubator setup, per a report from NewsBTC, “aims to enhance…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for November 15, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, In the fourth book of his brilliant trilogy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams explains…
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In nearly every forecast of where jobs will proliferate over the next two decades, the top line performer is always IT software programming related. It makes abundant sense. We live in an electronic age that is innovating faster than ever before, and it takes raw IT talent to develop, implement, and make everything work. Within…
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Occasionally, there are success stories that sound too good to be true, especially when the story involves a “pioneer” that risked treading where all before had feared to even try. In this case, we have Silvergate Bank, a unique financial institution based in San Diego, California, whose executive team consciously decided to serve the underserved…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for November 15, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The US dollar is finding support and gaining ground on the traditional safe-haven assets, such as the Japanese yen, during the early part of Friday’s session. The market…
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The Cyprus regulator CySEC has announced that it has decided to withdraw the CIF licence of a company named Fidelisco Capital Markets Ltd. The regulator shared that, at its meeting of 8th November 2019, has decided, pursuant to section 8(1)(a) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2017 and section 4(7)…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are JP Morgan Asset Management and Switch Finance. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to scam people…
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Bitcoin giveth and taketh away, like no other asset class before it, but analysts keep searching for Bitcoin’s “twin”, assuming that one might exist from another era that would provide an insight into the future price behavior of the world’s favorite digital asset. This search is not some kind of new age, outside of the…
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INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) has announced earlier this week that the Broker-Dealer Division of its wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial Inc., released a new interactive Canadian equity trading platform called Maple Live. The company's Canadian subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial (Canada) Inc. has recently become a member in the category of futures commission merchant…
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