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Financial Stability Board seeks faster, cheaper cross-border payments
The Financial Stability Board has launched a public consultation on global targets for cross-border payments.
Michelle Lim
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Advanced Blockchain Technologies
How blockchain technology is revolutionizing KYC in financial services
‘Know your customer’ is key to anti-money laundering efforts. Isabelle Corbett of R3 explains why blockchain is uniquely suited for KYC/AML.
Isabelle Corbett
DeFi News
Thailand’s DeFi sector targeted for regulation over coin offerings
Thailand's Securities regulator has announced that digital tokens issued and offered for transactions must have its approval.
Michelle Lim
Bitcoin News
Bitcoin suffers second-biggest monthly price drop in May
Bitcoin dropped by 37.5% in May after hitting a low of US$34,195 yesterday, the second-largest drop on record after it fell 40% in September 2011.
Lachlan Keller
DeFi News
Singapore’s DBS Bank launches its first digital bond
Singapore's DBS Bank has announced its first security token offering on the DBS Digital Exchange.
Michelle Lim
Regulation
Indian central bank in climbdown over crypto ban
India’s central bank has said that banks and other finance sector businesses should not adhere to a prohibition it imposed on lenders dealing in cryptocurrencies.
Forkast.News
Investment Insights
Gold vs. Bitcoin: Which one is better as a safe-haven asset?
Gold prices are rising again and at a three-month high. How does gold — a store of value for over 2,500 years — compare to Bitcoin as a refuge from market turmoil?
Shaun Djie
Regulation
Privacy coin Monero surges as US and Australia target crypto gains
Privacy-centric coins like Monero, ZCash and Dash are seeing big price rises as the IRS and ATO issue warnings on taxable crypto transactions.
Lucas Cacioli
Regulation
South Korean finance watchdog set to take over crypto regulation
South Korea is in the process of tasking a branch of the Financial Services Commission with regulating cryptocurrency exchanges.
Danny Park
Regulation
Digital yuan is not a surveillance tool, says Chinese ex-central bank director
Former People's Bank of China Director Yao Qian says that the country's digital yuan is not a surveillance tool for the government.
Yihui Xie
Regulation
Chinese crypto traders dodge clampdown in move to OTC, P2P platforms
Since Beijing's announcement of tighter restrictions on cryptocurrency trading earlier this month, investors have found a workaround in over-the-counter and peer-to-peer transactions.
Danny Park
Altcoins
Cardano rebounds 15% as Alonzo smart contact testnet launches
Following the launch of Cardano’s first testnet for its smart contract platform, Alonzo, ADA’s price rebounded by 15% on Monday morning to reach US$1.65.
Lachlan Keller
Regulation
Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 16% amid Chinese regulatory headwinds
The latest Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment, made at 1 a.m. UTC on May 30, saw the difficulty of Bitcoin mining drop 15.97%.
Kelly Le
Regulation
Ripple’s XRP communications off-limits to U.S. securities regulator, court rules
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has failed in a bid to gain access to any legal communications Ripple Labs sought or received as to whether sales of XRP were subject to federal securities law.
Lachlan Keller
Regulation
Indian lenders cling to overturned central bank crypto ban as customers fume
Banks in India, including some of the country’s largest lenders, are notifying their customers not to engage in cryptocurrencies, adhering to a central bank rule from 2018 that bans them from dealing in cryptos — despite the fact the ban was overturned by the Supreme Court more than a year ago.
Forkast.News
Regulation
Turkey’s crypto clampdown underwhelms as investors claim ‘business as usual’
Turkish regulators have tightened their grip on cryptocurrencies, but small traders and investors appear to have barely noticed.
Zoltan Vardai
Regulation
Are 73 SEC actions against crypto enough warning to Ripple about XRP?
SEC says Ripple had plenty of ‘notice’ that XRP transactions could be violating the law via its many enforcement actions against other crypto companies.
Michelle Lim
DeFi Platforms
Cardano launches first Alonzo smart-contract testnet
Input Output Hong Kong, one of the companies behind the Cardano blockchain, today announced the launch of the first testnet for Cardano's Alonzo upgrade.
Michelle Lim
DeFi Innovations
Bridging the DeFi data gap with indexing blockchain data
Blockchain technology has massive data requirements, but the data can be difficult and costly to access. What are some of the solutions?
Ganesh Swami
Regulation
Huge cryptocurrency scam boosts S. Korea’s crypto crime losses to US$5B
Police in South Korea have arrested 14 individuals in a cryptocurrency fraud case estimated to have cost 69,000 investors a total of US$3.85 billion, taking the country’s losses to US$5 billion over the past five years.
Danny Park