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A Better Alternative to Banking – Club Swan
18.12.2019
The crypto community has had a rough relationship with traditional financial institutions with limited solutions available. Around the world, both early and recent crypto users have had bank accounts closed, transactions rejected, unnecessary delays in receiving their funds, or worse. To add...
German Banks Increasingly Charging Retail Clients Negative Interest Rates
16.12.2019
A growing number of banks in Germany are charging retail customers negative interest rates, starting with the very first euro deposited into their accounts. At least three German banks are reportedly doing so, with more expected to follow suit in the near future. As the European Central Bank...
Cashaa Launches USD Bank Accounts for Cryptocurrency Business Firms
16.11.2019
Serving as one of the best banking platforms for fiat as well as digital currencies, Cashaa has announced that it will soon support U.S dollar bank accounts designed specifically for cryptocurrency-based businesses. The Bitcoin banking giant has clarified that the facility will be provided to...
Major German Coop Bank Passes Negative Interest Rates to Customers
9.10.2019
One of Germany’s largest cooperative banks has begun charging its retail customers a negative interest rate. Other major banks could follow suit since the European Central Bank cut the deposit rate to a record low. Deutsche Bank recently said that it needs to be “much more robust about...
Turkish Government Freezes Over 3 Million Bank Accounts
5.10.2019
Hundreds of thousands of businesses and individuals with tax obligations to the Turkish state have received foreclosure notices this week informing them about their frozen bank accounts. The government of Turkey, which is struggling with financial and economic problems under geopolitical pressure...
Bitcoin Bank Accounts Launched by Bitwala in 31 European Nations
4.9.2019
Bitwala, a blockchain company based in Germany, has unveiled a new application which will enable European residents to easily open a German bank account through their smartphones. Interestingly, this bank account will have an integrated Bitcoin (BTC) wallet. The roll-out was officially announced...
Doors To The Cryptocurrency Accounts Opened For European Citizens by Bitwala
1.9.2019
Bitwala has announced the launch of their bitcoin banking app for iOS and Android. Bitwala is a Berlin-based crypto banking startup with customers in about 31 of the European countries. All of these residents can now apply for a German account in the banks, with functionalities like bitcoin wallet...
Anti-Corruption Group Proves Crypto’s True Power: You Can’t Confiscate Math
14.8.2019
Last week in Russia, state agents tore apart the offices of FBK, a privately funded anti-corruption foundation, freezing group assets and more than 100 bank accounts. Officials are using suspicion of money laundering as justification for targeting the largely bitcoin-funded group, possibly in a...
Big Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Crimes
13.8.2019
Unlike the unfounded narrative that cryptocurrency enables crime, big banks are more than happy to serve unsavory clients if it is lucrative enough for them. The latest example of this is a report that Jeffrey Epstein was apparently using his bank accounts to fund sex trafficking and possibly other...
Money Laundering Fines Worth Billions Help Bankers Avoid Prosecution and Unpleasant Labels
18.7.2019
The recent seizure of a cargo ship owned by JP Morgan, a vessel loaded with 20 tons of cocaine according to latest accounts, highlighted the risks of banks’ involvement in illicit activities, inadvertent or otherwise. And although U.S. authorities released the MSC Gayane after the owner,...
Poloniex Crypto Exchange Users Can Now Use Cards and Bank Accounts
10.7.2019
Poloniex customers can now use credit and debit cards or bank account deposits to purchase crypto