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Visa Pilots System to Help Banks Provide Crypto Services Including Buying, Trading, Custody of Bitcoin
3.2.2021
Visa is piloting a new system to enable banks to seamlessly integrate crypto features. Using Visa’s crypto APIs, banks can offer a number of cryptocurrency services to their customers, including the buying, trading, and custody of bitcoin. Visa announced Wednesday a partnership with First...
Visa Signals Further Crypto Ambitions With API Pilot for Bank Customers to Buy Bitcoin
3.2.2021
Visa is working with Anchorage to allow customers at traditional banks to "buy and sell digital assets such as Bitcoin."
Anchorage Obtains Federal License to Operate as Crypto Bank From the OCC
15.1.2021
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted conditional approval to crypto custodian Anchorage to launch the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the country. In a statement on Jan. 13, 2021, the OCC said the company received the national trust banking charter...
Blockchain Bites: OCC’s Head Stepping Down, Anchorage to Become First National ‘Digital Asset Bank’
14.1.2021
Brian Brooks finalized the controversial Fair Access to Banking rule in what could be his last act in office
Anchorage gets OCC's first national charter to a crypto bank
13.1.2021
With Acting Comptroller Brooks on his way out the door, the OCC has given its first digital bank charter
Anchorage Becomes First OCC-Approved National Crypto Bank
13.1.2021
The crypto industry has its first federally chartered bank: Anchorage
Anchorage Hires Celsius’ Asaf Iram as Head of Risk
12.1.2021
Digital asset custodian Anchorage has hired its first Head of Risk
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Run, Uniswap’s Hemorrhaging Value, Anchorage’s Banking Bid
17.11.2020
Bitcoin is nearing all-time highs in price and market cap last set three years ago
Custodian Anchorage Seeks Charter From Crypto-Friendly US Bank Regulator OCC
17.11.2020
If its application is approved, Anchorage would be the first crypto company to get a national bank charter
Crypto Custodian Anchorage Gets SOC 1 Security Certification With Big 4 Auditor EY
10.11.2020
The report is granted after an independent third-party audit of a company's internal systems and controls supporting client financial reporting
Privacy Coin Zcash Makes Its Ethereum ‘Wrapped’ Debut With Tokensoft and Anchorage
21.10.2020
WZEC is the first asset to be launched by “Wrapped,” a partnership between Ethereum tokenizers Tokensoft and qualified custodian Anchorage
Proposed Bermuda Bank Taps Anchorage as Digital Asset Custody Partner
16.9.2020
Under the partnership, Anchorage will provide digital asset custody services to Jewel, which is applying for its full bank license in Bermuda
Anchorage Is Streamlining Custody of Tokensoft’s ERC-1404 Security Tokens
13.8.2020
The new partnership will add direct custodial support for Arcoin and INX, the upcoming INX Limited security token
Visa Moving to Integrate With Digital Currency Platforms
26.7.2020
Visa says it is working to integrate digital currencies with its existing global network of 61 million merchants. The global payments technology giant is working with two licensed and regulated digital currency platforms, Coinbase and Fold. In a blog post, Visa says the emergence of fiat-backed...
Crypto Custodian Anchorage Adds Litecoin Support
22.7.2020
The U.S.-based crypto custody provider has added support for litecoin, the eighth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization
Anchorage Launches Support for DeFi Token KEEP
26.6.2020
Crypto custodian Anchorage has launched support for KEEP in its latest bid to emerge as a leading custodian for DeFi tokens
Custody Battle Pits Institutional Boomers Against Crypto Upstarts
11.6.2020
Crypto custodians are in a race to build the next State Street or BNY Mellon
Mastercoin
7.6.2020
Mastercoin, rebranded as Omni in 2015, is an open source protocol layer built on top of bitcoin that enables the creation of new cryptocurrencies and assets. The project was intended to remedy what it called the two biggest barriers to bitcoin adoption: Insecurity and instability. It also claimed...
Ravencoin
7.6.2020
Launched in 2018, Ravencoin is an open source fork of bitcoin specifically designed to facilitate the transfer of assets from one party to another.  Users can create assets on the Ravencoin protocol that adhere to rules independent of those of the platform. This distinguishes ravencoin from...
Crypto Custodian Anchorage Teases Growth Plan With 2 Executive Hires
21.5.2020
Anchorage now has six executives in its C-suite, hiring a head of finance and head of sales with experience in both tech and Wall Street