Scott Snaith, CEO of Leicestershire-based e-bike specialist 50cycles, is warning customers in the United Kingdom against using high street banks after he says his bank accounts with HSBC and Barclays have been blocked.
Wirex Ltd., a provider of cryptocurrency debit cards in Europe, has been granted an e-money license by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
David Schwartz, chief technology officer at Ripple Labs, has published a paper claiming XRP cryptocurrency is actually more decentralized than Ethereum and BTC, in the latest attempt to persuade the skeptics.
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb ran up first half profits of $35 million, ten times smaller than profits for the previous accounting year, in the wake of a high-profile hack on the exchange in June.
Blocktrade Technology had signed a software licensing agreement with Valens Bank, which will see Valens handling trading through its new crypto fund with the help of Blocktrade Technology’s Crypto Trading Toolbox.
Indiegogo’s first security token offering (STO) is already available on the platform. The STO is from a luxurious ski resort, St. Regis Aspen Resort in Aspen, Colorado.
A day after it issued orders denying applications for cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it will be reviewing its decision.
The China National Fintech Risk Rectification Office has identified a total of 124 international cryptocurrency trading platforms that are operating in the country, the Shanghai Securities Times reported.
World Bank has selected the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) as the only entity to participate in the trial, which centers on a blockchain-based bond worth $73 million.
At the same time that China is putting pressure on the crypto industry, peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto lending continues to gain in popularity.
Bernstein analysts claimed Beijing-based Bitmain has begun to lose the competitive edge that allowed it to control as much as 85% of the market for crypto mining chips.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), which previously had come down like a ton of bricks upon the sector in general, has promised to ensure that the domestic crypto industry will grow "under appropriate regulation."
Philandering husbands are reportedly the new target of a BTC blackmail scam that is currently going around.
Three companies’ proposals to operate cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been rejected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in the wake of their junking of the Winklevoss twins’ application in July.
The cryptocurrency market experienced another downturn on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, with most major currencies seeing the gains made on Tuesday vanish within a matter of a few hours.
The Bank of Thailand (BoT) wants to create a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the country.
The country’s financial service department has reportedly banned all businesses in the area from holding any activity related to or that promotes cryptocurrencies.
A WeChat official told Lanjinger news outlet that the accounts were suspected of publishing ICO and cryptocurrency information contrary to the set regulations.
It seems that Malta is not the only country to come under the tag of the blockchain island of late, with South Korea also entering the fray in a big way.
Hong Kong-listed energy firm Global Energy Resources has announced a rebrand as part of plans to focus on cryptocurrency, despite reporting huge trading losses from their involvement in digital assets to date.
