Photo: Circle Financial services industry veteran Stephen Leahy has become head of business development for trading markets at blockchain-based payments startup, Circle. Leahy joins the Boston-based stablecoin issuer following a lengthy career in the finance world, the bulk of which was spent within

Photo: Leaprate Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is expanding its regulatory framework and updating the Payment Services Act to keep up with changes to international standards and to better mitigate and reduce the money laundering and terrorism financing related to digital payment tokens. Any e

Photo: Bloomberg Chicago-based Cboe (Nasdaq: CBOE) today confirmed it has completed its takeover of dark-pool stock trading platform, BIDS Trading, the largest block-trading ATS by volume in the US, for an undisclosed price. First announced in October, the deal for the alternative trading system (AT

Photo: Coindesk Bittrex announced on Friday that it will be delisting monero (XMR), zcash (ZEC) and dash (DASH), continuing a trend of so-called privacy coins being delisted by cryptocurrency exchanges. In a release, the exchange said the coins' markets will be removed on Friday, Jan 15, at 23:00 (U

Photo: Coindesk The U.S. Treasury Department’s proposed rules which would require users to comply with KYC requirements if they seek to send their crypto to a private wallet could end up being ineffective, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. In its published response to the rule,

Photo: Leaprate Major Japanese online broker Rakuten Securities and subsidiary of Internet services provider Rakuten Inc. has announced the addition of CFD trading services on stock indices and commodities. The new service is planned to become available in May 2021. The application process started y

Photo: Cointelegraph The SEC’s case against Ripple for selling XRP as unlicensed security will begin with a pretrial in Feb 2021. The United States District Court of the Southern District of New York has fixed Feb 22, 2021, as the date for the pretrial of the lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exch

The crypto exchange said the situation between Ripple and the SEC "will take time to reach a resolution." Photo: Cointelegraph Crypto exchange OKCoin announced it would suspend XRP trading and deposits following the news that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission would be pursuing leg

Photo: Leaprate The internationally licensed investment firm JFD Group has announced adding another product line to its multi-asset offering. JFD clients across the EU/EEA will be able to trade six iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) without a commission. These instruments are the third asset class

Photo: Finance Magnates Boston-headquartered State Street, a financial services giant, has added its four foreign exchange (forex) algorithmic strategies on BidFX, a provider of electronic forex trading solutions. Each of the State Street algorithmic strategies offers flexible FX trading executions

Photo: Bloomberg The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency has officially brought charges against the chairman of local crypto exchange Coinbit and two other unnamed executives for manipulating the digital currency market, local media Newspim reported. The city police are saying that the top exchange exe

Photo: FM Chicago-based crypto exchange ErisX has become the latest digital asset platform to provide its spot market data to TradeBlock, a provider of enterprise data tools for blockchain assets. TradeBlock provides a platform for cryptocurrency market data, trading capabilities, and price indices.

Photo: David A. Grogan | CNBC American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak recently launched his blockchain company Efforce to transform and disrupt the energy-efficient market. Efforce’s WOZX crypto tokens received tremendous response from investors as its market cap reac

Photo: Exchase Today, Exchase (Exchase OÜ) announced that it plans to build an all-in-one fintech solution that will bring the most popular fintech services and technologies under one umbrella. The Estonian based fintech company has been operating a cryptocurrency exchange, but now seeks to bring on

When you’re making purchases on the web in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you can use Apple Pay without having to create an account or fill out lengthy forms. The payment procedure takes just a touch and is faster and more secure than ever before. Every transaction made with Apple Pay requires