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Financial Sector Players Call for Improved KYC Regulations

Conventional financial service and banking providers have called for improved know-your-customer (KYC) protocols in a bid to build a more powerful digital environment for the world of finance – and want to collaborate with innovative partners on sandbox projects.Today, in a Bank for...

, by Tim Alper

BNY Mellon Doubles Down On Its Bitcoin Plans, Invests In Fireblocks

The oldest bank in the US, New York Mellon Corp., joined other investors and made a strategic investment in digital asset storage, transfer, and issuing platform Fireblocks.Today, Fireblocks said they raised USD 133m in Series C funding led by Coatue, Ribbit, and Stripes with strategic investment...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

JPMorgan to Offer ‘Crypto Exposure Basket’, but Criticized as Not ‘Crypto’

The news is out that major investment bank JPMorgan Chase is looking to offer its clients access to the crypto market - but not everybody see the offering in good light, or particularly crypto-related. Dated March 9, the bank's prospectus on the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

The Evidence Is in on Negative Interest Rate Policies

Luis Brandao-Marques is a Senior Economist in the Global Financial Stability Analysis Division in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Gaston Gelos is Assistant Director in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where he heads the...

, by Gaston Gelos

Brave Buys Search Engine, Kings of NFT, Binance In Colombia + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Kings of Leon. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/kingsofleonDecentralization newsBrave, the developer of a crypto-friendly internet...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Colombia’s Banco de Bogotá Begins Crypto Pilot

The major Colombian commercial bank Banco de Bogotá has begun a crypto pilot that will see a select group of its customers allowed to make crypto transactions on its banking platform. Per Portafolio, the pilot will begin this month and will allow customers to make crypto deposits and withdrawals...

, by Tim Alper

BIS and SWIFT Intensify Race With Crypto For Cross-Border Payments

Major players of the traditional financial industry are looking for new ways how to keep their positions, threatened by the emerging cryptoasset and decentralized finance (DeFi) industries. The Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub (BISIH) and the Society for Worldwide Interbank...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

India’s Warren Buffett Is Against Bitcoin Too, ECB Aims At Diem + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Regulation newsIndian billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, sometimes referred to as India’s Warren Buffett, told CNBC that...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Bank Account Data May Indicate a Rise in South Korean Crypto Activity

A new report has linked a spike in the creation of new bank accounts in South Korea to a rise in crypto trading – an indication that a large influx of new traders in the East Asian nation has taken up crypto in 2021.In 2018, Seoul created a set of guidelines that requires crypto exchanges to...

, by Tim Alper

Germany’s Biggest Bank Talked the Talk, Now it Walks the Crypto Walk

Deutsche Bank has gone low-key with its crypto intentions, but after months of crypto-positalk, the bank – Germany’s biggest with assets of almost USD 1.8 trillion – has taken the plunge into crypto custody.It's not a surprising move as the bank’s analysts have been making...

, by Tim Alper

America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon, Goes Bitcoin

The oldest bank in the US, New York Mellon Corp. will hold, transfer and issue bitcoin (BTC) and other unspecified cryptoassets on behalf of its asset-management clients later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Roman Regelman, chief executive of BNY Mellon’s asset-servicing...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

New Bitcoin Trust, ECB Might Limit Digital Euro Holdings + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Investing newsUS-based major crypto lending and trading company BlockFi announced the launch of the BlockFi Bitcoin Trust, an investment...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Leading Malaysian Bank Goes Bitcoin, Snaps up 19% Stake in Crypto Exchange

Malaysia’s top independent investment bank, the Kenanga Investment Bank, has announced that it has acquired a 19% stake in the domestic crypto exchange Tokenize Xchange. The trading platform is one of just three in the country to have received a digital asset exchange (DAX)...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Bitfinex Repays USD 550m to Tether, Nigerian Ban, Dorsey’s Bitcoin Node + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Exhanges newsBitfinex said that, in January, it repaid the remaining balance of USD 550m of the outstanding revolving loan facility to...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Colombian Banks to Work with Exchanges on Year-long Crypto Pilot

Colombian banks are set to form an unlikely alliance, with some of the nation’s biggest crypto exchanges set to work together on a cryptoasset transactions pilot.Per Semana, the pilot will, in most cases see crypto exchanges join forces with a bank to test how financial institutions can use...

, by Tim Alper

The Economics of the Poet Ezra Pound: What Is Money For?

The American poet Ezra Pound was never short of things to say, especially with regard to economics. While his literary contributions are unmatched, his economic ideas were largely discarded by his contemporaries, especially as he began to lean towards fascism in the latter part of his life.Ezra...

, by Alex Lielacher

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