$125 million worth of Stellar lumens will be given away as the largest give-away ever done so far. Stellar is partnering with Blockchain, the world's top digital wallet for Bitcoin, to surprise each Blockchain wallet holders with $25 worth of Stellar Lumens. Blockchain actually does not support a lot of companies, yet Stellar is one…
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Trading solutions provider Spotware has announced that its cryptocurrency exchange solution, cXchange, has been integrated with BitGo, the market leader in institutional cryptocurrency financial services. Spotware has just completed a deep integration between cXchange and BitGo’s wallet API platform. This integration allows any cXchange operator to plug in their BitGo Business Wallet thanks to the…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced settled charges against Zachary Coburn, the founder of EtherDelta, a digital "token" trading platform. This is the SEC's first enforcement action based on findings that such a platform operated as an unregistered national securities exchange. According to the SEC's order, EtherDelta is an online platform for secondary market trading of…
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Casey Kuhlman, CEO and Co-founder of Monax, an open-source blockchain platform for smart contract technology, has been accepted into the Forbes Technology Council. The Council is an invitation-only community for CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives. Scott Gerber, Founder of Forbes Councils, the collective that includes the Forbes Technology Council, said: We are honored to welcome…
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Mr David John Leigh, 56, of Sherwood, Queensland, has been committed by the Brisbane Magistrates’ Court on fraud charges and will be sentenced by the Brisbane District Court following an investigation by ASIC. ASIC alleges that between 25 July 2017 and 9 November 2017, Mr Leigh, as the co-liquidator of Neolido Holdings Pty Ltd (Neolido),…
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TMX Group Limited has announced October 2018 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha) and Montréal Exchange (MX). In October 2018, MX set a new overall monthly volume record with 10,933,209 contracts. A new Equity Options monthly volume record was also achieved with 3,077,922 contracts. Options…
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The AMF Chairman Robert Ophèle has informed the public that Marielle Cohen-Branche will start her third term as Ombudsman on 12 November 2018. In 2011 the AMF strengthened its role as a regulator in investor compensation by appointing an Ombudsman, reporting directly to the Chairman and assisted by a dedicated team. Marielle Cohen-Branche thus began…
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Powernext has introduced new PEG Spot contracts on its trading platform PEGAS last week, to accompany the merger of the PEG Nord and TRS hubs, completed on 1st November 2018. PEG Futures products were already available since 28 September 2018 and successfully traded during the month of October. First PEG Spot instruments became tradable on…
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Forex and CFD broker Tickmill has just announced that October 2018 has been its most successful month up to date with a record-breaking $145.53 billion in trading volume. This figure marks an increase of more than 23% from the Group’s consolidated trading volume for September which was previously the highest for the Group. Commenting on…
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STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Börse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has just announced that it has licensed the iSTOXX® MUTB Global ex-Australia Quality Leaders 150 Index to leading Australian ETF company, Betashares as an underlying for an ETF. The index selects quality companies from the…
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