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Warner Music Goes for Blockchain Gaming, Mintable Recovers Stolen NFTs + More News
23.2.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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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...
Bank of Spain Governor Warns About Traditional Banking’s Exposure to Crypto Assets
23.2.2022
The Governor of the Bank of Spain has alerted the public about the risks mixing traditional banks with crypto assets might bring to the economic system. Pablo Hernández de Cos stated that the direct or indirect exposure to these assets would increase the risks associated with the financial...
More South Korean Crypto-to-Crypto Exchanges Hopeful of Making Fiat Returns
22.2.2022
A group of South Korean crypto exchanges could be granted permission to resume crypto-to-fiat trading after a breakthrough banking deal last week – but opinions differ on whether the 23 exchanges currently trapped in crypto-to-crypto purgatory will escape before they are overwhelmed...
Future of finance: US banks partner with crypto custodians
21.2.2022
Traditional financial institutions must work hand-in-hand with crypto custodians, sub-custodians and service providers moving forward
What is the importance of blockchain in the RegTech ecosystem?
20.2.2022
RegTech enhances compliance for financial services institutions. This guide explains how blockchain works in banking to achieve this goal
US Senator Lummis Thinks ‘Bitcoin Is Something That the Fed Should Hold on Its Balance Sheet’
18.2.2022
Cynthia Lummis, the U.S. Republican senator from Wyoming, believes the Federal Reserve should consider holding bitcoin on its balance sheet. Speaking on the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation’s crypto webinar panel, Lummis said that once a regulatory policy is in place it “will make a lot...
Binance Joins Russian Banking Union, Will Head New Crypto Department
18.2.2022
The crypto exchange giant Binance has joined the Association of Russian Banks (ARB), where its Russia and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) lead will head a new crypto department....
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Chinese banking regulator warns against fraud risks in the metaverse
18.2.2022
Chinese authorities called the metaverse “attractive and deceptive,” where users are prone to lose money if they are unaware of the risks
Canadian Gov’t Says It Has Frozen Crypto-Related Bank Accounts – and Will ‘Freeze More’
18.2.2022
The Canadian government is going ahead with its controversial moves to end the “truckers’ protest” over COVID-19 restrictions that has brought much of the nation to a standstill – by freezing bank accounts and sharing crypto addresses with financial institutions in an effort to cut...
Japanese Gaming Giant Enters Metaverse, BitBank Adds Lightning Amid Crypto Tax Reform Call
18.2.2022
As the Japanese crypto scene is sending more signs of adoption and investments, a blockchain business leader is calling for a crypto tax laws reform.
Here's what recently happened in the Land of Rising Crypto Sun.
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Canada Asks Banks, Exchanges to Block Crypto Accounts Tied to Trucker Convoy Protests
17.2.2022
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the country's federal and national police service, has reportedly asked several crypto exchanges to halt transactions to over 30 crypto wallet addresses that are considered to be tied to the ongoing trucker protests....
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Exotic Markets Founder Joffrey Dalet Talks Defi Banking, Structured Products and Solana
17.2.2022
Exotic Markets is a DeFi (Decentralized Finance) platform on the Solana Blockchain. It aims to become the most flexible structured products protocol, offering the widest range of payoffs and underlyings in DeFi. For example, it aims to offer payoffs based on baskets of tokens, trading ranges...
Chinese IT Companies, Banks Expand Range of Offline Digital Yuan Solutions
17.2.2022
Chinese banks and IT firms are continuing to roll out a diverse range of “hard” digital yuan wallets as they lay the ground for the full rollout of the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBDC).
As reported, a large range of “hard” wallets – which require no permanent internet connection...
Here is JPMorgan's 'Metaverse Strategy' Advice for Businesses
16.2.2022
US-based banking giant JPMorgan finds that the metaverse will bring the need for new services and business models tailor-made for that digital era. It argues that this does not mean businesses should abstain from exploring the metaverse – and for companies interested in going down this path...
US Senate Banking Chief Criticizes Super Bowl Crypto Ads, Claims ‘Big Crypto Companies Are Desperate’
16.2.2022
The United States senator from Ohio and Senate Banking Committee chief Sherrod Brown is not a fan of cryptocurrencies. This week during Tuesday’s stablecoin hearing, Brown criticized all the cryptocurrency companies who advertised during the Super Bowl this past weekend and stressed that...
‘Optimism’ for South Korean Crypto Exchanges as Gopax Makes Banking Breakthrough
16.2.2022
South Korean crypto observers are predicting a “tectonic change” in the crypto exchange sector after a fifth trading platform struck a banking deal that will allow it to resume crypto-to-fiat trading.
Yonhap reported that Gopax, one of the largest of the non-“big four” exchanges (Upbit...
Fed never did it: US Senate Banking head lashes out at Super Bowl crypto ads
16.2.2022
The lawmaker claimed that crypto is not real money and companies splurging millions on advertisements proves that
Singapore’s DBS Bank to Launch Retail-Focused Crypto Trading Desk in 2022
14.2.2022
The major Singapore-based bank DBS confirmed that it is planning to launch a retail-focused crypto trading desk in 2022, after last year doing the same for accredited investors and corporate customers.
The plans include an online portal that allows clients to place orders for various digital...
Bahrain Central Bank Completes Cross-Border Transfer Test Using JPMorgan Blockchain
14.2.2022
The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), working in partnership with Bank ABC, recently announced it had successfully tested the transfer of funds across borders using JPMorgan’s JPM Coin. The test fulfills the central bank’s goal of creating safe and efficient settlement solutions...