• The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) building in Basel Switzerland sure doesn't look like a dreary place to work every day, right? (Photo by Mario Botta via Wiki commons).
    The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) building in Basel Switzerland sure doesn't look like a dreary place to work every day, right? (Photo by Mario Botta via Wiki commons).
    Libra,  Regulation

    Libra Association and major banks grilled on stablecoins

    Stablecoin creator JPMorgan and a consortium of major financial institutions aiming to launch its own payment coin face the Bank for International Settlements

    September 16, 2019 /

    Facebook once again defended its Libra cryptocurrency, this time in front of a group of central bankers at a conference on the regulation of stablecoins held in Switzerland on September 16.

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  • Once upon a time, this is how they would trade futures (via Wikicommons)
    Once upon a time, this is how they would trade futures (via Wikicommons)
    Bitcoin,  United States

    LedgerX beats NASDAQ and ICE to the retail cryptocurrency futures market

    The CFTC has awarded the company the first futures trading license open to individuals rather than institutions

    June 25, 2019 /

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on June 25 that it has approved LedgerX’s application as a designated contract market (DCM). A DCM may “list for trading futures or option contracts based on all types of commodities and that may allow access to their facilities by all types of traders, including retail customers,” according to the CFTC.

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  • Charts
    Here's a chart of GBP/USD but it looks like a chart of anything that can be charted (via Pixabay).
    Cryptocurrencies

    CryptoCompare starts ranking good, bad, and ugly exchanges

    Top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges announced after grading after the data and indices provider studied more than 100 trading platforms worldwide

    June 12, 2019 /

    Calling the cryptocurrency trading business ripe with fraud and manipulation, cryptocurrency data and indices provider CryptoCompare has begun rating the reliability of exchanges.

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