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The approval issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will see the firm offer services in 2022 with users able to purchase and sell exposure to gold and silver, Finews Asia reports. The exposure will also be based on live market performance data backed by real, physical gold or silver. The company has set the transaction fees in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 per cent for Standard customers, Premium and Metal customers....

By February 2020, Revolut, one of the leading challenger banks in Europe, had 10.84 million users. By projection, the end of March will see the bank garner an additional 0.53 million users. By June, the users are set to hit 13.07 million and then grow by about 20% to hit 16.45 million by December 2020. Notably, Revolut has been steadily growing its user base since February 2018, when the London based firm had 1....

Speaking at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit last week, Mr. Garlinghouse opined “polarization isn’t healthy in my judgment,” according to a report by CNBC. Although the Ripple CEO said that he does hold some Bitcoin and Ethereum and that he believes the cryptocurrency business is going to prosper. Bitcoin maximalism However, he does claims that the crypto industry’s influence in Washington, D.C. has been ‘fractured’ due to Bitcoin’s ‘maximalism.’ There are currently over 19,000 cryptocurrencies in circulation, with a total market capitalization of $1....

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, highlighted the SEC complaint in an interview with Axios at the Collision 2022 event in the middle of July. Galringhouse underlined that he believes Ripple will prevail in their legal battle against the securities regulator as, in his opinion, ‘the SEC has massively overstepped’, but he also argued ‘the facts’ are on their side, he remarked: What happens if Ripple loses the cases During the interview, Garlinghouse was questioned about what would occur if he is unable to get a judgment in his favor and XRP is identified as a security....

Premarket trading on Thursday, November 11, saw Rivian stock surge nearly 9% higher, putting the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s valuation above that of automotive behemoth General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Ford (NYSE: F) as investors continued to show a strong interest in the world’s newest publicly traded EV manufacturer. At the start of premarket trading, Rivian’s stock was up as high as 8.71% to $110; at the time of publication, its consolidated last sale was $107....

The coronavirus vaccine discovery from other players like Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), AstraZeneca (NASDAQ: AZN), and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) makes investors hesitant of buying into the vaccine story. Strong 2021 outlook supports Pfizer stock The company has generated 12% year-over-year revenue growth in the December quarter, helping it end the year with $41 billion in revenues. On top of that, the pharmaceutical giant and its German partner BioNTech anticipate delivering at least 2 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine this year, which would bring almost $15 billion in annual revenue....

During the CNBC ‘Trading Nation’ show, Hogan noted the near-term turbulence would hit all markets, including bitcoin, stocks, and even SPACs. The strategist tied the current volatility to inflation worries but acknowledged that the stock market had managed the swings well, considering the Dow Jones index is up 2% in May while the S&P 500 has remained flat. However, the Nasdaq index that entails most tech companies, has plunged 2%....

Indeed, Shiba Inu was at press time changing hands at the price of $0.00001209, recording an impressive increase of 15.17% across the past 24 hours, and assuming the first place among all digital assets by this indicator, according to the data retrieved from crypto tracking platform CoinMarketCap on January 18. As it happens, SHIB is closely followed by Casper (CSPR) in second place with daily gains of 12.31% (currently trading at $0....

The acquisition is in line with SoFi’s vision to explore the current transition to digital finance in order to meet its customers’ needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has necessitated the use of digital payments as an alternative to cash to curb its spread as suggested by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Time for digital finance? The WHO had earlier this year advocated the use of contactless payment options....

As it happens, the Daegu District Prosecutor’s Office’s Anti-Corruption Investigation Department stated that its prosecutors were executing a search and seizure warrant for the Woori Bank headquarters and investigating one of its employees, local news agency Yonhap reported on September 22. According to the report: As the report adds, the investigated individual “was working as a branch manager of Woori Bank at the time” and “was involved in illegal foreign exchange remittance....

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The service, likely to be available by 2024 at the latest, will be independent from the bank’s other cryptocurrency products becoming the first in the country, Swiss Info reported on July 11. According to the entity, there is a need to venture into cryptocurrencies despite the ongoing winter that has resulted in assets like Bitcoin losing their value by almost 70% from the all-time high of $67,800 in November 2021....

Indeed, the Swiss wealth management firm Pictet Group has acknowledged crypto’s growing role, but also stressed that cryptocurrency had no place in private banking, at least for the time being, Bloomberg’s Krystal Chia and Suvashree Ghosh reported on August 4. Crypto here to stay but long way from private banking Addressing a panel at the Bloomberg Asia Wealth Summit in Singapore, Tee Fong Seng, the CEO of the firm’s Asia wealth management branch, explained that: Furthermore, Tee also cautioned about the volatility in the crypto sector in the last couple of years, adding that the Pictet teams were carefully watching the situation as it unfolds....

In this line, data acquired and calculated by Finbold as of December 26 indicates that in 2022 Q4, Tesla’s market capitalization stood at $388.87 billion, representing a drop of 52.87% or $436.32 billion from the $825.19 billion capitalization recorded on October 1. Indeed, Tesla’s market cap losses of $436.32 billion in the last quarter of 2022 have surpassed the total capitalization of the company’s top ten competitors. In particular, the competing EV manufacturers accounted for a market cap of $280....

According to the entity, public opinion on the matter will be key in identifying critical focus areas in researching and developing cryptocurrencies, OSTP said in a journal on January 26. The agency, which is working on the policy on behalf of the Fast Track Action Committee (FTAC), noted that the opinion to be submitted by March 23 should focus on cryptocurrencies in general and related elements such as blockchain, distributed ledgers, decentralized finance (DeFi), smart contracts....

Two days later, the Dutch authorities placed Pertsev, who was a resident of the Netherlands, under arrest on the suspicion of “involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering.” The developer of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, Alexey Pertsev, reportedly formerly worked for a business that had ties to the Russian federal security service (FSB), according to a report published by the intelligence firm Kharon on August 24....

One, in particular, is market analyst Michaël van de Poppe, who expects that Bitcoin would see “some momentum” if it holds support at the $19,000 level “or reclaim $19.3K again,” as he explained in a tweet on September 29. According to the trading expert: Likewise, crypto trader and analyst Josh Rager posted his own bullish analysis on September 29 suggesting that, based on daily close, a “bounce here to $21ks or rally higher to $24ks” is possible....

The exchange that operates under BN Teknoloji was fined 8 million Turkish lira ($750,000) by Turkey’s Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK), which is the agency’s first punitive measure since it began overseeing the crypto sector, Reuters reports. The exchange allegedly violated various regulations that emerged during the liability inspections. Notably, Binance is accused of failing to provide customer information related to money laundering in line with new laws enacted earlier in the year....

As Finbold.com reported yesterday, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Joe Biden, are among 130 accounts that have lost their control on Wednesday afternoon. The company has disabled downloading individuals’ Twitter data as investigations are still going on. The social media platform is assessing security measures for long-term protection. Twitter stock steady Meanwhile, lawmakers and the FBI launched an investigation after hackers successfully gained control of high profile accounts....

Speaking to Bloomberg Technology, Chandler stated that the ongoing crackdown in China is the country’s playbook on Bitcoin that has been in existence for years. However, he acknowledged that investors should expect some form of regulation regarding cryptocurrencies in general. His sentiment comes after China escalated its crackdown on Bitcoin, halting almost 90% of mining activities. Elsewhere, authorities also announced a fresh crackdown on crypto trading. The move resulted in a significant Bitcoin price correction, but the asset is on a rebound....