Iran moves closer to crypto reality success with PayMon, ala “crypto rial” LeapRate

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Iran moves closer to crypto reality success with PayMon, ala “crypto rial”

More details have been forthcoming regarding the Iranian government’s attempt to build its own national cryptocurrency. CipherTrace, a digital asset security firm, has reported that this new virtual currency, named PayMon but dubbed “crypto rial”, has a real chance at success, unlike its predecessor in Venezuela. The obvious objective of this effort has been to…

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March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

College campuses are major crypto miners at the universities’ expense

Paying for a college education has always been a daunting task for many students that that were not fortunate to come from a background of privilege. Outside of student loans, these resourceful folks tend to find a clever way or two to earn extra cash, while completing their various curriculums of study. The method employed…

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ThinkMarkets launches ThinkZero, low-latent algorithmic & automated trading solution

Global derivatives trading firm enhances trading infrastructure with the launch of ThinkZero, specialist solution for algorithmic and automated financial traders Forex, CFDs and cryptocurrency derivatives trading broker ThinkMarkets has just announced the launch of its new offering that caters to the needs of algorithmic and automated traders. ThinkMarkets has recently extended its CFD product offering…

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

cTrader Desktop gets a new look

Trading solutions provider Spotware has announced that cTrader Desktop 3.5 Beta has been released showcasing a new look that very much resembles and shares the benefits of cTrader Web. Commenting on the launch, Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management at Spotware, stated: Our goal is to provide traders with the same user experience on all…

INTL FCStone opens its know-risk platform to broader market

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

INTL FCStone expands its FXePrice trading platform to its full banking network

INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) revealed that the expansion of its FXePrice platform, by its UK subsidiary, has attracted 52 users working for 17 institutions who trade 12 unique exotic currencies pairs for 24 hours each day. The FXePrice system enables banks to send their FX rates directly to the company’s Global Payments Division’s (IFL),…

Craig Wright – Satoshi Nakamoto imposter or not – Judge not impressed

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

QuadrigaCX’s sordid saga continues – Cold wallets cleaned out April 2018

QuadrigaCX, the crypto storyline that keeps on giving, took another bizarre twist, as investigators determined that Gerry Cotten, the CEO of the exchange, had cleaned out the cold storage account balances as far back as April 2018, presumably transferring them to QuadrigaCX accounts at other exchanges. Ernst & Young reported these finding to the court,…

BIS announces key appointments in Singapore and Switzerland

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA adds Richard Lloyd to its Board as a non-executive Director

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced the appointment of Richard Lloyd to its Board of Directors as a non-executive Director. Richard Lloyd is one of the founding trustees of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute and is the current Chair of the consumer complaint resolution entity known as Resolver. He will serve a…

March 06, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

XEM token just listed on Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) just added NEM’s XEM token to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). XEM was brought to the GBX-DAX by the Sponsor Firm Techemy and will have trading pairs with USD, BTC, and ETH on the GBX-DAX. Six new tokens have already been listed on the exchange since the beginning of 2019,…

March 06, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Cashbery Limited / Global Decentralised Community

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 Swift CFD, a trading style of Cashbery Limited. Cashbery Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is…

TradingScreen opens development center in Montreal

March 06, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TradingScreen opens a development center in Montreal

Busy week for TradingScreen Inc. (TS) as it just informed that it would be expanding its development and technology operations to Montréal as “TradingScreen Electronic Financial Solutions Inc.” (TS Canada). Just yesterday, the multi-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS) announced the release of QUO, a cloud-based platform for managing investments that is being…