Tag: Kraken

Kraken clients see red

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Yesterday I wrote a post on Twitter saying that clients of crypto exchange Kraken didn’t have much of a case for compensation after Monday’s flash crash in ethereum. During the […]

UK regulator follows up anti-crypto threat

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A year after it threatened to ban the sale to retail clients of contracts based on bitcoin and other cryptoassets, the UK’s financial markets regulator has put its words into […]

FCA’s crypto risk warnings cause confusion

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The UK’s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), caused confusion this week by issuing risk warnings against two cryptocurrency exchanges, Kraken and BitMEX, then withdrawing one of them. One […]

Benchmark risks

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Financial index data help drive the revenues of many stock and futures exchanges. But calculating an index from market inputs, apparently a straightforward activity, can still be a risky one. […]

The wild world of crypto derivatives

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Soaring volumes, billion-dollar fortunes, insane leverage and radical new risk models: welcome to the wild world of unregulated cryptocurrency derivatives. The real action in crypto derivatives The Chicago Mercantile Exchange […]

A new crypto exchange rating scheme

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Cryptocompare, a provider of cryptocurrency data and indices, is launching a new benchmarking service to evaluate cryptocurrency exchanges. The new service uses a proprietary methodology, based upon a combination of […]

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