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 Harper and Brown. Harper and Brown is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) revealed that U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. of North Carolina’s Western District had agreed to a Supplemental Order against Californian Resident Hannes Tulving and his firm The Tulving Company, Inc., on charges that they solicited customers on fraudulent claims related to precious metals trading, after…
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Paxful, a Bitcoin trading platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, today announced that it has partnered with BitMart to create a joint venture. BitMart is a cryptocurrency trading platform serving over 600,000 customers globally, hence, the partnership is a way for the two companies to scale their operations and improve the liquidity offered to their customers.…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) released the current issue of its SFC Regulatory Bulletin: Listed Corporations, which included an update on how it will execute its authority as stipulated in the Securities and Futures (Stock Market Listing) Rules to protect investors. The dispatch outlined some of the recent steps taken by the…
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JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) may have taken the crypto world by surprise with its sudden “JPM Coin” introduction. The flurry of press headlines about this internal token/blockchain project have been a distraction, but if you peel back the layers of this circus sideshow, you would discover a host of other investment industry leaders touting the long-term…
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Options, a global provider of colocation services and market data for trading firms, revealed that the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX – ALC Australian Liquidity Centre), the Korea Exchange (KRX) and the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx) have signed up to its Managed Colocation service. Sydney’s Equinix SY2 has also joined Options as its second Australian client…
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Swych, a mobile gifting platform, announced that it will begin accepting payment in a variety of cryptocurrencies. Starting today, consumers will be able to pay for gift cards from 600+ retail partners using both fiat and crypto. Swych now provides an alternative for crypto-holders to exchange their digital assets for instant cash in the form…
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When the CEO of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange died, the password for his computer "died" with him. As a result, $190 million in deposit were lost. On 31 January, QuadrigaCX filed an application for creditor protection with the supreme court of Nova Scotia, after months of transaction delays.The company hired Ernst & Young as an independent…
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New alternative datasets are available as of today through Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point's data website, Bloomberg just informed. This step allows Data License clients to easily access and incorporate new, non-traditional forms of high-quality data from Bloomberg and alternative data providers including Thasos, Apptopia, TipRanks, PredictWallStreet, RS Metrics, Orbital Insight, OWL Analytics, Predata, Evaluate, 280First and Symphony Pharma. Our…
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AlgoTrader AG today revealed that it had been chosen by tensoralpha GmbH to provide all of its quant modelling requirements. Tensoralpha GmbH is a cryptocurrency investment fund based in Berlin, while AlgoTrader helps investment firms create trading strategies, back test them and deploy the same in the markets. tensoralpha is not the first company to…
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