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British Investment Bank HSBC Joins Metaverse via Sandbox, Animoca Brands Partnership
16.3.2022
The British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company, HSBC, has revealed it has partnered with the blockchain virtual gaming platform The Sandbox. According to the platform’s parent company, Animoca Brands, HSBC is the first global financial services provider...
Binance Becomes the First Crypto Asset Service Provider in the Arabian Gulf
15.3.2022
Although cryptocurrencies are increasingly used for transactions and purchases, their legality still remains in the shadows in many regions. This significantly hinders the firms’ ability to acquire customers across countries. Due to this, many firms have expressed their willingness to work...
Binance awarded Bahrain crypto service provider license
15.3.2022
The world’s largest crypto exchange will now provide various regulated crypto services to Bahraini citizens
Binance Granted a Crypto Asset Service Provider License From Bahrain’s Central Bank
14.3.2022
The oil-rich kingdom has been making moves to strengthen its domestic crypto industry
Regulator Says UAE ‘Closer to Issuing the Regulatory and Supervisory Framework’ for VASPs
10.3.2022
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is getting closer to issuing a regulatory and supervisory framework that will govern the country’s virtual asset industry, the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) has said. FATF Recommendations A UAE securities regulator, the SCA has said it is getting...
Blockchain document transfer provider CargoX extends agreement with Egyptian government
7.3.2022
Project reps say the platform has transferred more than 1,100,000 actual trade and finance documents for over 75,000 customers since its implementation
Binance Sets Up Its Own Fiat-to-Crypto Payments Provider
7.3.2022
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has set up its own fiat-to-crypto payments provider Bifinity to help businesses become "crypto-ready."
BitYard Partnering With Transak – Smooth the Way for Crypto Credit Card Payments
6.3.2022
PRESS RELEASE. BitYard and credit card service provider – Transak, muscle into India and Mid Asia for 1 billion crypto market. Transak’s Background Transak enables developers with seamless and easy-to-integrate crypto onboarding infrastructure technologies, in line with their...
NFT Infrastructure Provider Rarify Gets $10 Million Investment in Series A Funding Round Led by Pantera Capital
5.3.2022
Rarify, a startup that helps third parties include NFT elements in their tech platforms, has raised $10 million in its Series A funding round. The round was led by Pantera Capital, a leading cryptocurrency-based venture capital firm. The company has now reached a reported valuation of $100 billion...
Infura Mistakenly Leaves Venezuelan Users Without Metamask Support
4.3.2022
Infura, the service provider of Metamask, one of the most used smart contracts-based wallets, blocked the access of Venezuelans to the Ethereum blockchain. Reports about this happening circulated on social media, attributing it to the existence of sanctions that the infrastructure provider might...
A16z Investing $70M In Ethereum Staking Provider Lido Finance
3.3.2022
The firm also used Lido to stake a portion of a16z Crypto’s ether holdings on the Beacon chain
Payment services provider Shift4 acquires The Giving Block for $54 million
1.3.2022
Shift4 has more than 425 software integrations and over 200,000 merchant customers
Shift4 Buys Crypto Donation Firm The Giving Block for Up to $300M
1.3.2022
The deal is for an up-front payment of $54 million and potential payment of up to $246 million
Data Shows Ruble-Denominated BTC Volume Rising, BTC-RUB Prices Jump as High as $46K
28.2.2022
Amid the conflict in Ukraine with Russia, bitcoin trade volumes tied to Russian ruble pairs have surged in recent days. Metrics recorded by the crypto analytics provider Kaiko indicate that ruble (RUB)-denominated bitcoin volume reached close to 1.5 billion rubles four days ago, on February...
How to Avoid the Five Most Common Crypto Tax Mistakes I Cointelli
24.2.2022
The 2022 U.S. tax season is upon us and cryptocurrency traders need all the help they can get. Here are five common crypto tax misconceptions you should look out for, courtesy of crypto tax software provider, Cointelli. “You don’t have to pay taxes on crypto” One very common...
VAF Compliance Is a Forensic Service Provider That Can Help You Pass KYC/AML for Crypto Banking
23.2.2022
At VAF Compliance a team of experts is ready to help with all of your virtual assets compliance needs. Connect with VAF today; the leading virtual assets compliance company serving the Middle East and customers worldwide. What Is VAF Compliance? The crypto, NFT and metaverse spaces are hot...
Swiss index provider launches new product tracking 10 DeFi tokens
23.2.2022
“Incorporating fundamental metrics in index creation offers investors the possibility to allocate in the most efficient DeFi tokens based on rational economic indicators," said Compass Financial Technologies CEO Guillaume Le Fur
London Stock Exchange acquires cloud-based technology provider Tora in $325M deal
22.2.2022
The LSEG specifically outlined Tora's exposure to digital assets as part of the reason for the acquisition
Streaming Service Sling TV Adds Crypto Payment Support for Monthly Subscriptions
22.2.2022
The American streaming television service Sling TV has announced the company is now accepting cryptocurrency payments from customers paying their monthly subscriptions. Sling TV detailed the company is leveraging the crypto payment provider Bitpay and will accept seven different cryptocurrencies...
Fireblocks to Acquire Crypto Payment Platform for a Reported $100 Million
20.2.2022
Digital asset custody service provider Fireblocks has announced it will acquire First Digital, a fellow Israeli company, for $100 million. The acquisition, which is said to be Fireblocks’ first, comes less than three weeks after the company revealed it raised $550 million in Series...