Crypto

Prominent Twitter accounts and Reddit forums have urged people to purchase $30 of BTC to mark “Bitcoin Day” – with some calling for this to become an annual event on 7th September.

Digital Assets

How can “title” add value to the crypto markets?

September 2, 2021

Title around crypto wallets could dismantle the concerns of individuals who are not getting involved in crypto because of fears regarding security. This development could, therefore, potentially mean a larger base of crypto users.

Digital Assets

Who are the people taking on Binance?

August 26, 2021

Liti Capital’s case against Binance will be a landmark for the industry. Many believe that sound regulation is required to ensure that exchanges like Binance are overseen in a sensible way, and that their clients are properly protected.

Digital Assets

Traders prepare to pursue recovery for millions in losses caused by Binance

August 19, 2021

“We should not have any more than the barest minimum of regulation, but the trillion dollar or $100 billion companies that take our money for profit have a responsibility to their consumers. There has to be rules. There has to be regulations. There has to be some way where, if something goes wrong, you can hold someone accountable."

Gold

How is the price of gold reacting to increased inflation?

August 19, 2021

Usually, we would expect increased inflation to drive up the price of gold. Gold is, after all, traditionally considered to be a hedge against inflation.

Press Release

Blockchain.com to Leverage Account Verification from Envestnet | Yodlee

August 10, 2021

Envestnet | Yodlee will provide open banking access to new Blockchain.com users, accelerating Blockchain’s ability to onboard new customers and securely fund their accounts through real-time account verification, directly from the user’s bank account, without the need to provide micro-deposits.

Digital Assets

Is an NFA better than an NFT?

August 6, 2021

"The way to solve this is to forget about the token and make things as a non-fungible asset. And the only way you can do that is to make data smart.”

Digital Assets Fintech Technology

How is DeFi eating traditional finance?

July 6, 2021

Arthur sees DeFiance as a crypto investment fund, based on the traditional model of investing client money to realise returns, but all within the alternative DeFi ecosystem.

Banking Digital Assets

Why is Citi embracing Crypto?

June 28, 2021

Fraser shared her policy regarding cryptocurrency before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee last month. She shared how her company was taking a ‘measured approach’ to cryptocurrency as the bank sought “to understand changes in the digital asset space and the use of distributed ledger technology, including demand and interest by our clients, regulatory developments and technology advancements.”

Press Release

Mt Pelerin launches crypto investment with zero fees

April 21, 2021

With its mobile app Bridge Wallet, Mt Pelerin brings a radical solution by letting its users buy and sell cryptocurrencies straight from their bank account at the actual market rates, with no other costs.

Press Release

Are the traditional investment portfolio allocations still relevant?

April 13, 2021

‘Real’ assets such as gold, infrastructure and property provide some protection against inflation and, in the case of gold, also some protection against big risk-off moves.

Digital Assets Investment Banking

Hey Citi, your bitcoin report is NOT embarrassingly bad

April 7, 2021

It is a matter of ‘when’, and no longer ‘if’, banks completely adopt crypto trading, and are accepted into the wider crypto eco-system. You can be pretty sure that when the time comes, Citi will work with companies like BlockFi and exchanges like Uniswap.

Press Release

Macro Hive Becomes First Ever Full Service Financial Research Firm To Accept Bitcoin For Payment

March 11, 2021

Digital Assets

As Bitcoin nears $1 trillion market cap, can comparing Crypto to Forex trading help understand what next?

February 18, 2021

Bitcoin has already overtaken the market cap of huge companies like Tesla and Facebook. It is still a bit behind Apple, Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet (Google), but once it gets to just above $55,000 per coin, it will join the $1 trillion+ club.

Digital Assets

Cuba, Libya and Syria comprise Top 10 Crypto-loving countries

February 11, 2021

Countries which rank lower on The Human Freedom Index, or which are politically turbulent for other reasons, feature frequently in the top 10.

Digital Assets

Is the SEC fallout the end of the road for XRP?

January 14, 2021

We wrote about the dire warnings released by the FCA just this week as well. Following on from which it is also widely reported that banks in the UK are preventing their customers from depositing gains from their cryptocurrency assets.

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