TP ICAP’s marketplace for spot cryptoassets goes live LeapRate

May 25, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

TP ICAP’s marketplace for spot cryptoassets goes live

The newly introduced platform combines TP ICAP's in-house over-the-counter electronic platform, Fusion, with the institutional-grade custodial expertise of Fidelity Digital Assets. Leveraging TP ICAP's order matching and trade execution technology, the exchange benefits from the extensive liquidity derived from the firm's diverse global client base. At present, the venue offers trading in Bitcoin and Ether…

May 03, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Coinbase introduces international crypto exchange

However, the launch of the platform comes as US regulators tighten their grip on digital asset firms. Last month, Coinbase filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for not providing guidance on the cryptocurrency industry using its formal rulemaking process. This was followed by the SEC sending a Wells notice to Coinbase,…

August 26, 2022 BY Alan Sayer

Crypto Exchange Zipmex Requests Meeting With Thailand's SEC

In a statement, Zipmex said: "We have requested meetings with Thailand's Securities Exchange Commission and regulators in the country where we operate to introduce our investors to regulators and present our recovery plan to government agencies." While Zipmex, who operates across various countries in the Asia Pacific region, did not mention who the investors may…

Aquarius Financial Technologies and CQG to launch institutional grade crypto exchange in Q3 2021

March 04, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Aquarius Financial Technologies to launch crypto exchange in Q3 2021 with support from CQG

Richard Lane, co-founder of Aquarius, commented: We are delighted to welcome CQG as a key go-to-market partner. We are soon to close our series A investment round at the end of March 2021, and this agreement marks another important milestone for Aquarius, enabling us to realise our ambition to launch and grow a fairer trading…

April 29, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

BitMex exchange to shutter Japanese service due to regulatory changes

The FIEA also included one other important change that would impact BitMex. The sale and use of crypto derivatives, currently 80% of trading activity in Japan and the primary product offering of BitMex, would suddenly fall within the purview of the FIEA. Up to now, the Wild-West atmosphere promoted by crypto option providers has existed…

Binance seeks to curb SEC’s hunt for “fraud”

April 10, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Binance accused of alleged embezzlement of $860K by Ukrainian national

Copies of South Korean correspondence were also shared with Ukrainian Police officials, when they investigated the owner’s complaint in April of 2019. According to reports from the Bitcoinist: The company explained the incident and was told that no further assistance was needed, suggesting that the agency was satisfied with the explanation.” The owner of the…

January 28, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

5 most impactful crypto regulations of 2019

Digital currencies and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) have been faced with continuous change and fluctuation in their legislative environment in recent years, Forbes reports. Electronic money was not always as popular as it is today upheld only technologists and Libertarian in the beginning. This changed as cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology spiked interest and powered up…

Exclusive: Bittrex and Bitsdaq launch new crypto exchange, interview with CEO and Chairman Ricky Ng

January 20, 2020 BY Mariela Naydenova

Thai SEC awards license to cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex

Cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex, based in Singapore, has been awarded a license from the Thai SEC to start offering its services in Thailand. The information comes from The Block on January 20, 2020. Zipmex is now one of the very few crypto players in Thailand that has a license to offer its crypto trading services to…

December 31, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Poloniex Exchange confirms data leak, explains its email on Twitter

Poloniex, the cryptocurrency exchange, has recently initiated a password reset procedure for all of its clients due to a confirmed email address and password "leak" on Twitter. The information comes from Cointelegraph. Yesterday, Poloniex sent an email to its customers to let them know that there is a list of leaked passwords and email addresses…

November 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

$450 million compromise of Russian exchange linked to FSB by BBC

The current crypto trading environment is often compared to the “Wild, Wild West” conditions of the retail forex industry in the nineties. Regulatory oversight was nowhere to be seen, and fraud ran rampant, especially when dealing with overseas forex brokers. In the crypto-verse, however, unregulated exchanges have lost billions of dollars to professional hacking groups,…

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