Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
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The Securities and Exchange Commission may be focusing on the sale of options known as simple agreements for future tokens in connection with initial coin offerings.
March 1 -
As Congress considers new rules for digital currencies, lawmakers should consider putting responsibility in the hands of the Treasury Department, given its role in handling traditional currency.
February 28 -
JPMorgan Chase just weighed in again on virtual currencies — very discreetly.
February 28 -
The Boston-based Circle has offered several services over the past few years and has shifted its strategy.
February 26 -
As financial services companies cool on gun sales, alternative currencies may step in to pick up the slack.
February 26 - PSO content
Venezuela is advertising its groundbreaking state-sponsored cryptocurrency as a means to "promote well-being, bringing power closer to the people.” A lofty goal, but it’s hard to see how the troubled nation’s citizens will be empowered if they can’t even buy it.
February 23 -
Bank of America warns of “substantial” costs from cybercurrencies; First National Bank of Omaha knuckles under to a “barrage” of complaints.
February 23 -
U.K. lawmakers are launching an inquiry into cryptocurrencies to investigate their benefits and risks and consider how the new technology should be regulated.
February 22 -
Long Blockchain Corp., the iced-tea company that jumped in on the cryptocurrency craze, said it was accused by the Nasdaq of possibly misleading investors.
February 22 -
As they cement major partnerships, launch overseas operations and court banks and other institutional investors, top cryptocurrency exchanges now see regulatory approval as a competitive advantage.
February 21 -
Ripple, the San Francisco-based venture looking to rewire financial firms with Bitcoin’s underlying technology, said Latin America’s biggest bank by market value is among five new customers joining its international money-transfer network.
February 21 -
If you haven’t heard of "Dubielcoins," don’t worry. You haven’t missed the latest madness in initial coin offerings. The imaginary means of payment features in a video by a popular Polish YouTuber as part of the central bank’s unorthodox efforts to help raise awareness of the risks posed by virtual currencies.
February 21 -
Despite panicked cries to the contrary on social media and cable news, federal authorities are keeping a careful eye on evolving digital currency markets, as regulators are likely to tell Congress on Tuesday.
February 21 -
Bitfinex, the digital-currency exchange being scrutinized by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, opened an account with ING Groep NV after losing its relationship with Wells Fargo & Co. last year.
February 20 -
Western Union’s long-rumored relationship with Ripple is turning out to be real.
February 14 -
South Korea’s government gave the strongest signal yet that it will allow cryptocurrency exchanges to keep operating in the country, a welcome development for traders who had feared an outright ban in one of the world’s biggest markets for digital assets.
February 14 -
In what could be seen as a mea culpa for CEO Jamie Dimon's disparagement of bitcoin five months ago, the Wall Street megabank has released a big and relatively bullish report on cryptocurrencies.
February 12 -
Fallout from the Fed's blow to Wells Fargo; a call for calm in the rush to regulate cryptocurrencies; point-of-sale lending has its day; and more.
February 9 - PSO content
The head of the World Bank compared cryptocurrencies to “Ponzi schemes,” the latest financial voice to raise questions about the legitimacy of digital currencies such as bitcoin.
February 8 -
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., sent a letter to two virtual currency trade associations on Thursday asking them what their members are doing to prevent hate groups from using cryptocurrencies to finance themselves.
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