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Progressive financial institutions have no doubt that bitcoin and new digital assets could be the future of the financial sector. Betting on the future, the Börse Stuttgart stock exchange, which is the second largest in Germany and ninth in Europe, will launch a cryptocurrency trading app.
On April 13, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published the first weekly report on the obligations of traders of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
One of the divisions of the Japanese Internet giant GMO Internet, the GMO Coin crypto exchange, offers its clients a new type of income: interest on cryptocurrency deposits. The mechanism for the “growth” of bitcoins remains unclear. After all, traditionally, banks take money from depositors, and then issue loans in fiat and receive income thanks to the difference in interest rates. Bitcoin, on the other hand, increases in value over time and has no demand for loans.
In a notice to its clients, Indian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure said that hackers stole 438 BTC from the platform - $3 million at today's exchange rate.
Malta has been dubbed the “blockchain island” as more and more leading cryptocurrency companies are showing interest in the country’s favorable legal and tax environment for crypto businesses.
Polish authorities have seized 1.27 billion Polish zlotys (about $371 million) from the bank accounts of two companies suspected of laundering money for a drug cartel in Colombia. Some local publications link these companies to the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange.
According to the Wall Street Journal, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase, has filed an application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to register as a licensed brokerage firm. This will allow the exchange to provide services related to those types of cryptocurrencies that the SEC classifies as securities. In addition, it could serve as an incentive for the exchange's competitors to also register with the SEC and submit to government oversight.
One of the largest crypto exchanges, Bitfinex, which has always been distinguished by a conservative approach to the introduction of new cryptocurrencies, announced the listing of 12 new little-known tokens
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