The positive noises on crypto contrast with some of the scepticism expressed by the Financial Conduct Authority, which revealed last week that 5m adults owned crypto assets last year - but continues to warn that those who invest should be prepared to lose all their money.
June 15 (Reuters) - BlackRock is close to filing an application for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), CoinDesk reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
The clampdown in the US has brought a dose of self doubt to a whole ecosystem behind cryptocurrency and the blockchain idea at its core, in which transactions do away with middlemen, including governments and banks.
To protect themselves, institutional crypto investors are switching to exchanges that offer stronger asset protection, boosting due diligence on trading partners, and executing trades in smaller chunks, among other new risk management measures, according to executives and industry data.
June 29 (Reuters) - Paysafe Payment Solutions, Binance's European banking partner, said on Thursday it will cease offering its embedded wallet solution to the U.S.
cryptocurrency exchange across the European Economic Area (EEA) from Sept.
arm of Binance said it would remove digital asset token tron from its trading platform. (Reporting by Mehnaz Yasmin and Medha Singh in Bengaluru)
The SEC charged the Tron Foundation and its founder Justin Sun with fraud in March.
A month later the U.S.
Earlier this month, Nigeria's markets regulator ordered Binance to halt its operations in the country, saying local unit "Binance Nigeria Limited" that courted Nigerian investors through a website was not registered or regulated, making it illegal.
Hong Kong's push for banks to accept crypto clients comes at a time when countries such as the U.S.
are doubling down on crypto exchanges, with the U.S. (Reporting by Rahat Sandhu, Nilutpal Timsina and Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich, Sherry Jacob-Phillips and Nivedita Bhattacharjee)
affiliate of Binance halting dollar deposits last week after the Securities and Exchange Commission asked a court to freeze its assets.
Spooked by Washington's push, Crypto investor Derek Boirun, who founded Realio, a company mixing real estate and blockchain, posted a "Why I'm leaving the US" piece at website Medium.
12 closing low and heralded the start of a new bull market, at least by the definition of some market participants. The broader S&P 500 rose 0.62%.
Its gains put the benchmark index up 20% from its Oct.
France is also probing Binance, which has decided to quit the Dutch market because it was unable to meet registration requirements to operate as a virtual asset service provider.
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange closed its Australian derivatives business and relinquished a financial services license in April amid an ASIC probe into the business.
A spokesperson for Binance said it was pulling back on Cyprus to sharpen its focus on its other companies in the European Union ahead of the rollout of the EU's crypto asset regulations (MiCA).
The lawsuit was filed one day after the SEC sued Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, accusing it of inflating trading volumes, mishandling customer funds and lying about its operations.
Earlier on Friday, the company said it was leaving the Dutch market because it had been unable to meet registration requirements to operate as a virtual asset service provider.
The original crypto coin has leapt 20% to two-month highs at $30,182 over the past 11 days after BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, revealed hopes for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States.
The Cyprus registration allowed Binance to offer spot trading, custody and other services in compliance with Cyprus's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing rules, the exchange has previously said on its website.
PARIS, 币安手续费折扣 June 22 (Reuters) - CACEIS, the asset servicing business owned by Credit Agricole and Santander , has registered with France's markets regulator AMF to provide custody services for digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies.
Last week, Binance was sued by the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, which listed 13 charges against the company, Zhao and the operator of its purportedly independent U.S.
