Digital assets, crypto and blockchain are here to stay: LMAX Exchange CEO David Mercer speaks LeapRate

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Digital assets, crypto and blockchain are here to stay: LMAX Exchange CEO David Mercer speaks

LeapRate Exclusive Interview… LMAX Exchange Group’s 2018 financials report has gone out last month, releasing excellent growth and record financial performance for the year ended 31st December 2018. It has been almost two years since our last interview with David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Exchange. What has changed in the company since then, what are…

Crypto ICOs showing a comeback, after major drop off in 2018

April 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

SEC clarifies guidelines for classifying an ICO as an investment contract

Crypto attorneys that support Initial Coin Offering (ICO) promoters in the United States have been requesting for some time more clarification from the SEC on how it interprets current securities legislation to determine whether or not an ICO qualifies as an “investment contract”, thereby necessitating formal registration and investor disclosure requirements under the law. At…

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

March 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Decred (DCR) lists on OKCoin's digital asset exchange

Decred (DCR), a community-led cryptocurrency, yesterday announced that it had officially listed on OKCoin, a fiat-to-crypto exchange, which is its first pairing with a fiat currency within the United States. The listing will allow authorized OKCoin users to withdraw and deposit their Decred (DCR) holdings, and as from today they will also be able to…

DFSA launches Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

November 26, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

VNX Exchange teams up with SnT to create a cybersecurity market ecosystem

VNX Exchange, the trading platform for tokenized venture capital assets has just informed the public that it has teamed up with the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) to create a new standard of security for the market ecosystem for digital assets. The resulting technology may halve the global costs…

October 15, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

First public offering of a cryptocurrency and digital assets related fund goes live

Since the commencement of 2018, cryptocurrencies have begun to enter the mainstream of the finance world, with such major announcements as the commencement of trading in Bitcoin futures on the CBOE, Nomura Holdings announcing a foray into cryptocurrency storage and security solutions, ICE (owner of the New York Stock Exchange) announcing the formation of a…

June 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Quantave begins closed beta testing on institutional digital currency liquidity gateway

Quantave, the complete trade life-cycle infrastructure for digital assets, announced that has officially entered their closed beta-testing phase today. The infrastructure opens the digital assets market to institutional traders and investors, transforming the way they engage and transact with this dynamic market, whilst ensuring the safety and security of their assets. Quantave is now rigorously…

June 13, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Ripple receives first NY BitLicense for institutional use of digital assets

Early last year, the state of New York began requiring a license to engage in virtual currency activity. Ripple engaged with New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) and today received a “BitLicense” to sell and custody XRP, the digital asset native to the Ripple Consensus Ledger, for institutional investors and financial institutions in New…

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