When Bitcoin and Ethereum were the only games in town, the issue of token standards and interoperability was not even on the radar screen, but today, with thousands of crypto development programs and tokens to match, it is time to “address the need to universally define tokens and how their implementation can occur, interchangeably, across…
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Who knew? Who knew that while investors were enduring the consequences of Crypto Winter, lo and behold, some of the largest corporations around the world were hard at work behind the scenes embracing blockchain technology and developing their own workable solutions, while crypto development companies continued to search for the “killer app” that would reshape…
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Another week… another report that reveals the dark underbelly of crypto exchanges and confirms the SEC’s worst nightmares about price manipulation in crypto exchange markets. The report this week, entitled “Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges”, comes to us by way of researchers at Cornell Tech. They focused primarily…
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Retail forex broker FXTM has just announced that it has appointed Tan Chung Han (Han Tan) as a new Market Analyst of the FXTM Market Research team, with a focus on Southeast Asia (SEA). Han Tan is a highly experienced financial journalist and producer with more than 6 years of experience gained across local and…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Loans4Unemployed. Loans4Unemployed is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which require authorisation:…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX)’s Supervisory Board announced that Alexander Afanasiev will step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer. In line with best corporate governance practices, the Board has engaged in a succession planning process over the last year, supported by professional consultants. The Board has already recommended the appointment of Yury Denisov as CEO,…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company V Merger Group. V Merger Group is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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April may be the time for spring and showers, but it also brings with it, unfortunately, tax reporting deadlines in both the US and the UK. If you have invested or traded in cryptocurrencies or received them in any way for services rendered, then you could be staring at a tax liability that you never…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for April 18, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Highlights include: Crypto Exchange Volumes Trending Away From Fiat: Crypto trading volumes are growing but the percentage of those…
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The digital-asset-protocol for producing smart commodity-money Ampleforth has just announced that it has appointed Richy Qiao as its Chief Business Officer and Simon Manka as the company’s Head of Growth. Through my time at FBG, I’ve examined and interacted with nearly a hundred projects - Ampleforth shines as one of the most ambitious visions, paired with…
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