Tag: Crypto

World’s First Bank-Backed Crypto Exchange Finally Opens to the Public

The world’s first bank-backed cryptocurrency exchange is now open to the public after months of delays. Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings formally launched its in-house crypto trading platform, dubbed VCTRADE, last month. Yet, as reported by CoinDesk at the time, the trading service was only available for a group of selected users who pre-registered with the platform last October. In an announcement released on Tuesday, SBI Holdings said the service is now fully open for users aged from 20–70 who reside in Japan. However, a registration service for corporate customers has not yet…

2019 CFA Exam Adds Crypto and Blockchain Topics

2019 CFA exam: “We saw the field advancing more quickly than other fields,” says Stephen Horan, the GE managing director at the CFA Insitute. “This is not a passing fad.” CFA Institute is one of the world’s most famous nonprofits, focusing on investment professionals specifically, and offering various certifications in the field, like the Investment Foundations Certificate. It offers a three-level program, which covers a range of topics, from machine learning to artificial intelligence. Some 150,000 financial professionals have received training through this program. Since the crypto industry continues to garner mainstream attention, the Virginia-based…

Crypto Daily News | Crypto World Cup Results, BlackRock, & AMEX

In today’s edition of Crypto Daily News, we’ll cover the winner of the Crypto World Cup, BlackRock eyeing Bitcoin, and the details of American Express’s blockchain exploration. Charles Hoskinson/France Wins it All This Saturday, France duked it out against Croatia in the World Cup, and France won 4-2. Here at CryptoCurrencyNews.com, we held our own ‘Crypto World Cup’ in which we randomly paired cryptocurrency celebrities with countries competing in the global tournament. The Crypto World Cup ended up being a phenomenal event, and we’d like to congratulate Charles Hoskinson/France for…

A Crypto Exchange Is Buying Back $24 Million-Worth of Its Own Tokens

FCoin, a new cryptocurrency exchange that saw spiking trading volume recently due to its controversial revenue model, has revealed a plan to buy back millions of its own tokens to provide capital for a new fund of funds. The exchange announced last Friday that the new fund will be backing a group of selected token funds to further invest in blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. The funds selected will all be accredited sponsors, it added. During an initial phase, it will allocate 100 million of its own FT tokens – worth around…

5 Crypto Assets Are Soaring Big on Possible Coinbase Listings

Cryptocurrencies generally see a price increase after being added to an exchange, but with Coinbase the rise can be meteoric – even when nothing is actually being added. The exchange announced Friday that it was looking into potentially adding cardano’s ADA token, basic attention token, stellar, zcash and 0x to its platform, and each of the tokens immediately saw double-digit percent price spikes. The increases are even more interesting considering Coinbase noted that it “cannot guarantee they will be listed for trading.” Notably, the exchange also claimed that “we are making…

Something Strange Is Going On at a Crypto Exchange Called WEX

Users of WEX, the cryptocurrency exchange built on the ashes of BTC-e, are reporting withdrawal problems, raising new questions about an already mysterious trading platform. “‏Dear Wex, when withdraws will enable ??” asked Twitter user Alireza Moosavi on Friday, joining a crowd of Wex customers complaining they couldn’t withdraw funds for the second day in a row. Ehsan Mahmoodi similarly inquired, “Hello, why withdrawal is disabled?” A third user, Hasan Gusseynov, asked the exchange, in Russian, “When will everything be ok?” The user complaints follow odd trading activity observed on the…

Steven Cohen Invests in Crypto Hedge Fund

The King has left the hedge fund building. Now, Steven Cohen, otherwise known as the ‘Hedge Fund King’, has entered the world of cryptocurrency. Yes, the headlines are true: Steven Cohen invests in a crypto hedge fund. Steven Cohen Invests in Crypto Hedge Fund Cohen, a Billionaire investor, is still technically involved in the hedge fund industry, but his latest investment is in a crypto-based hedge fund — a first for Mr. Cohen.  On July 12, Fortune published an article which stated Steven Cohen had invested in, through his VC firm,…

Robinhood’s Plan to Win the Crypto Exchange War? Kill Trading Fees

As a new entrant into the cryptocurrency field, Vlad Tenev, co-CEO of online investment brokerage Robinhood, is following a time-honored business strategy: Undercut the competition. Except he’s taking it to an extreme. Launched early this year, Robinhood Crypto is differentiating itself with zero-fee transactions, with the ultimate goal of doing away with the concept of trading fees in the market altogether. Framing this effort as a force for good in line with his company’s namesake folk hero, Tenev told CoinDesk he wanted to prevent consumers looking to invest in cryptocurrencies, especially young millennials,…

Trump Crypto Fraud Task Force

Trump crypto fraud task force: Earlier this year, the United States government revealed that it was looking at cryptocurrencies, with a particular focus on market fraud, and that it was developing a “comprehensive” strategy around virtual currencies. Now in the second half of the year, the US government is diving even further into the crypto industry. On Wednesday, July 11th, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, giving officials the final go-ahead they needed to create a consumer fraud task force. Further, alongside targeting other areas, the new Trump task…

Bitcoin Price Spikes to Nearly $9K on Little-Known Crypto Exchange

For a cryptocurrency exchange that has seen its bitcoin price trade at a market premium since launch, the spike to nearly $9,000 on the WEX exchange on Wednesday was an outlier. Some background: in July of last year, U.S. and international law enforcement took aim at BTC-e, the long-running – and long-mysterious – cryptocurrency exchange. In a dramatic turn, a Russian national and one of BTC-e’s suspected employees was arrested and charged with laundering billions of dollars while American regulators moved to slap the exchange with a massive $110 million…