OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Shift Markets to Integrate GMO’s JPY and USD…
GMO-Z.com Trust Company, the New York-based, regulated stablecoin subsidiary of Japanese Internet conglomerate GMO, has partnered with FX and crypto technology provider Shift Markets. The group operates the largest retail forex broker, GMO CLICK Securities,…
Senate Debates Central Bank Digital Currency
Chris Giancarlo was the CFTC Chair until April 2019; he’s currently a senior counsel at Wilkie, Farr, and Gallagher, a prominent law firm with offices in six countries spoke about digital currency. [caption id="attachment_221725" align="alignleft"…
Federal Council Takes Note of Current Stablecoin Developments
Bern, 15.01.2020 - During its meeting on 15 January 2020, the Federal Council took note of developments currently taking place in stablecoin. Switzerland is actively involved in international efforts with regard to stablecoin, in particular in the Financial…
Burkhard Balz: Curtain up for the future of…
Ladies and gentlemen, Professor Waldenberger, Thank you very much for inviting me here to the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo for giving remarks on bigtechs and fintechs to smartphones and stablecoins. I have to…
Digital Currencies, Stablecoins, and the Evolving Payments Landscape
Technology is driving rapid change in the way we make payments and in the concept of "money."1 There is a long history of technological advances challenging the prevailing notions of money, from the trading of…
New York Authorizes Paxos’ Gold Stablecoin
Paxos, the company behind the PAX stablecoin, has obtained a license from the New York State Department of Financial Services in order to offer a gold-backed virtual currency, the first such virtual currency authorized by…
Binance Buys Crypto Derivatives Trading Platform JEX
Binance has acquired crypto-asset trading platform JEX, a specialist in spot and derivatives trading services which will focus on further building the cryptoasset derivatives market, in order to offer Binance users with professional services including…
Chair’s update of the G7 working group on…
Within many countries, existing payment systems generally provide for accessible, safe and efficient retail payments for consumers. Nevertheless, access to payment services needs to improve in many regions, and cross-border payments ought to be faster…