German blockchain startup Bitwala has launched crypto banking in Germany.
After securing €4 million (roughly $4.5 million) from VC firms Earlybird and Coparion in September of 2018 to develop a crypto banking solution, the company has allegedly amassed a waiting list of 30,000 potential users.
The state of Wyoming has passed a blockchain bill that allows banks to provide banking services to blockchain companies in the state. According to the legislative document, the new bill would create a new banking category called the Special Purpose Depository Bank, a group of financial institutions in the state that provide banking services to blockchain-based businesses.
In a statement from the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), an emergency relief action was filed to shut down AriseBank, which it described as “an outright scam.”
In a growing list of enforcement actions by the SEC, the complaint against AriseBank stated that the Dallas-based company had used deceptive tactics to raise what they claim was $600 million of its $1 billion goal in just two months.
Six Korean banks will begin allowing the simultaneous opening of accounts, deposits and withdrawals, as well as transfers of funds between these accounts and exchanges, beginning on January 30, 2018, but with some new restrictions.
The central banks of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are jointly working on a cryptocurrency to enable cross-border transactions between the two countries.
Goldman Sachs, the global finance market’s second largest investment bank behind JPMorgan, will begin trading bitcoin futures for its clients, once major exchanges list bitcoin futures in the upcoming weeks.
Wall Street banks are hitting back at the upcoming bitcoin futures contracts, claiming that the finance system isn’t ready with continuing rising prices.
Cryptocurrency has opened up a new world in the financial sector that was primarily owned by banks, namely the borrowing and lending of capital.
While peer-to-peer borrowing and lending has developed in recent years in the fiat currency space, it is only recently that companies have been finding methods of replicating these ideas in the cryptocurrency space.
Paying with traditional banknotes is on the decline as interest in contactless payments and digital currencies rises.
That’s according to the co-founder of the Sohn Conference Foundation. Speaking with CNBC on the sidelines of the Sohn Conference in London, Evan Sohn said that a world without fiat money is quickly approaching, adding:
How far are we from a restaurant that says we only take online payment? If you eat here, you have to download this application and we only take electronic payment, no cash here, no check.
Earlier this month, Turkish Central Bank Governor Murat Cetinkaya emphasized that bitcoin could contribute to global financial stability with its decentralized and peer-to-peer (P2P) financial network.
Turkish Central Bank Feels Threatened by Bitcoin
The decentralized structure and nature of bitcoin completely eliminates the necessity of central entities and authorities within the network to settle transactions between two parties.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon might consider bitcoin to be a “fraud” that “will not end well,” but one of his top strategists anticipates that the launch of bitcoin futures could turn cryptocurrencies into “an emerging asset class.”
As reported by CNBC, Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, a global markets strategist at JPMorgan, said Friday that the addition of bitcoin futures contracts to regulated trading platforms will lend credibility to cryptocurrency, making it more appealing to both institutional and retail investors.
A European Central Bank director has called on banks to embrace instant payments to suppress the disruptive threat posed by cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Speaking at an event in Rome, European Central bank director Yves Mersh dismissed digital currencies and called on retail, commercial banks to embrace instant payments to counter the rise of cryptocurrencies.
In quotes reported by Reuters, Mersh said:
Banks need to implement instant payments as soon as possible and provide an alternative narrative to the ongoing public debate on the alleged innovation brought by virtual currency schemes.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein appears to have soured on bitcoin following its historic march to $10,000 and subsequent volatility.
In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Blankfein derided the flagship cryptocurrency as a “vehicle to perpetrate fraud,” stating that an asset as volatile as bitcoin does not strike him as an effective currency or store of value.
The chairman of Switzerland’s central bank believes cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are more of an investment than a currency, at present.
Speaking at an event in Basel on Thursday, Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan struck a cautious tone about cryptocurrency’s usefulness as a transactional currency. Jordan, who notably servers as a director in the board of the Bank of International Settlements – commonly seen as a central bank for central banks – confirmed that multiple central banks around the world are looking into the issue of cryptocurrencies “very intensively.
Mainstream banking giants such as JPMorgan and UBS might be skeptical of bitcoin, but fintech startups such as Square and Revolut are embracing it as a logical outgrowth of the digital revolution.
In an interview with CNBC, Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky stated that, despite the protests of JPMorgan head Jamie Dimon, bitcoin is “definitely not a fraud”.
The head of the Japanese central bank’s payments department doesn’t see digital currencies like bitcoin replacing physical cash anytime in the near future.
Speaking at a FinTech forum in Tokyo on Wednesday, Bank of Japan (BOJ) senior official Hiromi Yamaoka revealed he doesn’t see the conventional banking industry under any immediate threat from digital currencies. Yamaoka, who heads the Japanese central bank’s payment and settlement systems department, opined physical cash is here to stay despite major disruptive gains led by financial technologies in recent years.
JPMorgan’s CEO might think bitcoin is a “fraud,” but that doesn’t mean the company will preclude the opportunity to reap a profit by helping clients trade bitcoin futures.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the financial services behemoth is holding conversations about potentially facilitating client trades of bitcoin futures contracts once they launch on U.
Hong Kong banks have frozen and closed accounts of bitcoin businesses, forcing the companies to open foreign accounts, according to the South China Morning Post.
A representative of Hang Seng Bank advised the Gatecoin exchange on Sept.
The world’s largest wealth manager says it does not plan to invest in bitcoin or other crypto assets due to the absence of government oversight and the lack of a clear exit strategy.
2017 has been a watershed year for bitcoin, and it will likely be remembered as the tipping point that turned bitcoin’s reputation from a curious experiment — utilized primarily by nerds and anti-government activists — into a mainstream financial instrument that, according to Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead, will be an “expected” component of a well-rounded financial portfolio.
Jamie Dimon has offered baseless condemnation on bitcoin for many years, calling it a bubble, a fraud, and a money laundering tool. This week, ironically, JPMorgan was cracked down for money laundering, after being fined $4 billion for mortgage fraud in September, merely two months ago.
Dimon and JPMorgan Criticized
Since early 2016, JPMorgan and its CEO Jamie Dimon have focused on attempting to commercialize and market the term ‘blockchain” to compete with bitcoin.
Jamie Dimon has offered baseless condemnation on bitcoin for many years, calling it a bubble, a fraud, and a money laundering tool. This week, ironically, JPMorgan was cracked down for money laundering, after being fined $4 billion for mortgage fraud in September, merely two months ago.
Dimon and JPMorgan Criticized
Since early 2016, JPMorgan and its CEO Jamie Dimon have focused on attempting to commercialize and market the term ‘blockchain” to compete with bitcoin.
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