Russian Miner Coin raised $43 million through an ICO to create a “next-gen ecosystem for miners and investors,” challenging China in this field, reported East-West Digital News. Although the company had previously set a target of $100 million, the amount currently raised is a new record high for the Eastern European ICO market. According to…
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Seven leading banks are teaming up with R3 and Finastra to create a blockchain-based syndicated loan market, LenderComm. This new disruption in the lending market is yet another blockchain application that is going to be used to ease the loan market and serve as a platform for efficiency and up-to-date information. This new project will…
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RoboForex, an international brokerage group which provides online trading services on the global financial markets, just announced that it has expanded the list of its offers available to clients and enabled access to trading CFDs on cryptocurrencies. Two of the most liquid digital currencies, bitcoin and ethereum, have been added to the list of trading…
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The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has set out in Guidance its approach to Initial Coin/Token Offerings (ICOs) and virtual currencies under the Financial Services and Markets Regulations (FSMR). Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has extraordinarily wide application to financial services and markets as a whole. Virtual tokens, at their…
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With cryptocurrencies becoming more popular and maturing in the investment world in thousands of portfolios, industries and innovations, all of them at some point must go through an upgrade. For Ethereum, this upgrade will happen on October 17th, and what is known as "hard fork" will come to life. For many investors, the difference between…
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Just as blockchain is currently disrupting numerous industries, it is time for airline companies to be the next in line. Air France KLM is one of the first aircrafts to be employing blockchain technology in order to keep its top-notch position among customers. The whole maintenance of an aircraft company is usually complicated and blockchain…
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Singapore is now one of the leading blockchain innovators, with MAS and ABS announcing three new blockchain payment prototypes, Maybank Singapore is helping migrants get paid through the technology of blockchain. It may not be a well known fact, but migrants in Singapore do not always have access to banks, financial services and their money.…
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Often taunted as one of the most "stern" countries in the world, Russia is now entering the cryptocurrency boom by introducing educational system that will be all about digital currencies. In September this year, the Finance Minister announced that Russia is now legitimizing cryptocurrencies, as reported by AtoZ Forex. Naturally, the first step to integrating…
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The Pentagon is currently facing a logistics problem and the total value of the inventory that it manages totals around $100 billion. The Defense Department has to track every supplier, every part and type of inventory it operates and the sole scale of the amount of inventory it has to deal with creates a logistics…
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Brickblock, the platform for cryptocurrency holders to invest in real estate, ETFs and crypto funds, has secured three new high-profile advisors to add to its expert team. The new faces are: Holger Schlünzen, ETF analyst, Axel von Goldbeck, real estate and regulatory expert, and legal and currency specialist, Dr. Wolfgang Richter. Brickblock, which recently completed…
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