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To my mind remarkably, Binance seemed to find my minimal regulatory knowledge sufficient to believe I was indeed an expert of ten years’ experience, and duly offered me the role of Senior Regulatory Advisor.

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The IMF at MYFintech Week Malaysia: CBDCs, Risks and Rewards

January 26, 2022

MyFintechWeek, the flagship Malaysian fintech event, kicked off this Monday, with digital banking, cross border payments, and sustainability the main areas of focus this year. The second day of the virtual conference started with the keynote speech of Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director at the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund.

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Institutional Crypto with Gold-i

January 25, 2022

Since 2017, Gold-i have offered their “Crypto Switch™” product, which has been used by FX brokers wishing to open up cryptos as an additional asset class for their clients. Now Gold-i is seeking to establish itself within the fund management sector and become the “technology of choice” for financial institutions launching crypto funds.

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How I Bluffed My Way to a Six-Figure Job Offer From Binance’s Regulatory Team (Part Two)

January 20, 2022

Is Binance serious about becoming “even more compliant?” Or are they simply seeking to hire a couple of people who appear to be experts, just so they can say to the regulators that they have? The company might make grand announcements about doubling its number of compliance staff, but that does not mean much if this is how they are going about their recruitment.

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How I Bluffed My Way to a Six-Figure Job Offer from Binance’s Regulatory Team (Part One)

January 13, 2022

I was keen to investigate how serious Binance really was about cleaning up their act, and how robust the compliance recruitment processes of the world’s biggest cryptoexchange are. So I decided to apply for the role under a fake name and with false credentials.

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Why is Binance banned in Singapore?

December 30, 2021

Earlier in December we heard the news that Binance had withdrawn its application to obtain a cryptoexchange licence in Singapore. This followed frequent clashes with the regulator in Singapore, which in September prompted Binance to ban its users in the country from trading on its global platform.

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Ethereum’s price predictions in 2022

December 27, 2021

Vitalik Buterin is not as outspoken as Elon Musk or a host of other celebrities who have joined the cryptocurrency and NFT bandwagon.

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Retail Investors – Easy Pickings?

December 8, 2021

Just as Reddit users drove prices of GameStop and Robinhood stock, the same is the case in crypto. Today, Matt Damon is the face of Crypto.com. Not to mention Kim Kardashian…

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Binance alleged to have collected biometric data unlawfully in US

December 1, 2021

Binance is facing a class action lawsuit in Illinois, which alleges that the world’s largest cryptoexchange has unlawfully collected its users’ biometric data.

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Tailored Investing with ALLINDEX

November 30, 2021

This is a trend that Swiss FinTech company ALLINDEX is looking to capitalise on. They are aiming to “democratise customised investments” – allowing individual investors to build customized indexes in a self-service fashion in order to reflect their own ambitions and beliefs.

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Why you should sell your Coinbase stock

November 29, 2021

Coinbase have had lower than anticipated sales and marketing expenses in Q3, the report continues. They anticipate that sales and marketing expenses will be approximately 10% of net revenue for full-year 2021. Compared to what the firm spends on technology and development, marketing is less than 7% of that amount today, let alone of the net revenue.

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Brazilians see crypto as tool to diversify risks of local stocks, cash

November 24, 2021

Brazilians were the biggest supporters of crypto-recognition, with 56% supporting El Salvador’s move, and 48% saying they want Brazil to follow suit and adopt Bitcoin. Only 4% of Brazilians said that there is no future for crypto currencies in their country.

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Privacy-preserving credit checks may drive growth in uncollaterised DeFi

November 22, 2021

Over-collateralisation can be problematic for the borrower and, by tying up more capital in an unproductive way, it’s certainly less efficient. Thus, the growing usage of uncollateralised loans, mostly through the Ethereum protocol.

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Onyx, driving digital transformation at JPMorgan

November 18, 2021

In a panel discussion titled "Web 3.0 in Corporate Banking," Umar Farooq, CEO of Onyx by JPMorgan, shared his insights on how one of the preeminent corporate and investment banks approaches digital transformation, the more widespread use of blockchain technology, and the question of regulation.

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Bitcoin ETFs bring regulated crypto to global banking

November 15, 2021

ETFs have been the buzzword for both the finance and crypto industries in the last quarter of 2021. Australia’s contribution has been the BetaShares ETF (a fund investing in global crypto-linked companies) launching in early November and delivering over $40m in trades on the ASX debut.

What About DeFi? With Celo and Chainlink at #SgFinTechFest

November 8, 2021

It’s been a vigorous first day at the #SgFinTechFest. The Festival has already over-exceeded expectations after the first day. While stablecoins haven’t come up quite as much as at other FinTech events, crypto was out in full force. Moderated by Morgan Beller, General Partner of NFX, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink and Rene Reinsberg, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Celo met to discuss all things DeFi.

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