U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believes that bitcoin needs to be as highly regulated as SWIFT. “Look, the risk with anonymous transactions is one...
A lawsuit against crypto exchange Bitfinex will proceed. Bloomberg reported that New York state Justice Joel M. Cohen denied the company’s request to dismiss a...
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that it has granted a charter under New York Banking Law to Bakkt Trust to...
Nevada is enforcing stricter regulations on cryptocurrency kiosks, and will now require them to have a state money transmission license. BitAML Senior Advisor Annelise Strader...
German blockchain finance firm Bitwala announced that it has raised $14.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Sony Financial Ventures and NKB...
New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) has launched a new Research and Innovation Division that will be responsible for licensing and supervising virtual currencies....
Horizon Blockchain Games announced that it has raised $3.75 million in a seed round, led by Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture fund, Initialized, with participation...
Germany’s Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has joined the chorus of politicians that are worried about Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency, Libra. “The issuance of a currency does...