If you’re the operator of a large trading platform, charged by a US prosecutor with fraud, misusing customer funds and covering up losses, what do you do? Plead guilty in […]
Financial market data is now a huge revenue earner: spending on market-related data and news has grown at a compounded rate of 13 percent a year since 2012, according to […]
The fallout from last week’s indictment by the New York State Attorney General of Bitfinex and Tether continues, this time in the form of a 6 percent price premium in […]
The owners of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex have been defrauding clients by engaging in secret, conflicted transactions with related parties, according to a court order published on April 25 by the […]
New digital assets like bitcoin are often seen as potentially disruptive to the global monetary system and the legacy financial infrastructure. But they also pose a fundamental challenge to existing […]
Since 2013, the cryptocurrency market has seen periodic bouts of excitement about the potential launch of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the US, followed by disappointment. No bitcoin ETFs have […]
Money in the traditional financial system is highly segmented, depending on its form and user. Can new digital currencies avoid going down the same road? Coins and banknotes, deposits at […]
Like a current, money flows, it circulates, it’s liquid. In fact, English law regards currency as one of the key attributes of money. But should new, virtual forms of money […]
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices may be languishing in the doldrums after a year-long bear market, but there’s healthy interest in the firms running the sector’s growing infrastructure. Earlier today […]
Blockchain forks—the splitting of a cryptocurrency into two—are an occupational hazard for anyone involved in this emerging asset class. Now the head of a cryptocurrency trading firm has called for […]
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