Tag: Crypto

Digital asset finance platform Bitwave secures $15m

Bitwave, a digital asset finance platform created to manage the intersection of crypto tax, accounting and compliance, has bagged $15m from a Series A.

Neobroker BUX buys retail brokerage arm of Spain’s Ninety Nine

BUX, a European neobroker, has acquired the retail brokerage arm of Spanish neobroker Ninety Nine, helping BUX boost its presence in the Spanish retail brokerage market.

Institutional crypto markets provider Finery Markets nets $5.5m

Finery Markets, which helps institutions get involved with crypto markets, has collected $5.5m in its seed funding round.

Industry experts react to UK’s new Crypto and Digital Assets Group

As cryptocurrencies continue to gain popularity around the world, the UK parliament has formed the Crypto and Digital Assets Group to support innovation and regulation of digital assets.

How will the passage of MiCA change the cryptocurrency market?

Set to go into effect in 2024, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MICA) is the first all-encompassing effort to tackle cryptoassets. How will its passage change the crypto space?

ISDA to publish crypto derivatives draft standards by end of 2022

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) is planning to publish its initial set of standards and definitions for the OTC crypto derivatives market...

Crypto to fiat app Ramp closes Series B on $70m

Ramp, which is building the payment rails to connect crypto to the global financial system, has closed its Series B funding round on $70m.

Crypto trading platform X1 selects Resistant AI to aid AML checks

Cryptocurrency trading platform X1 has chosen financial crime prevention specialist Resistant AI to improve its AML checks across its platform.

Crypto app Ottr scores $3.1m pre-seed

Ottr, a new Web3 mobile app that makes holding crypto simpler and more secure, has raised $3.1m in pre-seed funding.

Study finds $4bn illicitly laundered through DeFi exchanges

Cryptoasset risk management firm Elliptic has found that criminals have used DeFi exchanges amongst other things to launder more than $4bn in crypto.

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