Wirex achieves profitability by maintaining 3 million registered customers in 130 countries April 7, 2020 As the sun shines down on the deserted great City of London and the presses stay silent during this unprecedented lockdown with the NHS diligently fighting COVID-19, the crypto markets remain open demonstrating that the digital economy will play a vital role going forward. It strikes me that if we had had a Central Bank [...]
EU vs Swiss Policies Compared April 7, 2020 In a major move last year, The European Parliament and the European Council took new strides towards EU anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) regulations with the Fifth AML Directive. The Fifth AML Directive popularly known as MLD5 which entered into force on 9 July 2018 expanded the scope to cover [...]
Crypto space hits record daily trading volumes April 7, 2020 Last week the price of Bitcoin recovered form a $6,250 low to $7,100, claiming back the territory lost in mid-March, when it dropped from a $7,100 high to about $3,800 in a two-day period. Ethereum, the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, rose from $131 to $152 in the same period. A newly published report has [...]
How companies can navigate the Wild West of today’s blockchain ecosystems April 7, 2020 Piers Ridyard, CEO of Radix DLT, gives an overview to James Bowater, City AM’s Crypto Insider on the benefits independent testing of Distributed Ledger Technology platforms can bring to the industry and why businesses should take note. The rise of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) startups and cryptocurrencies in the last decade has sparked its fair [...]
Crypto A.M. shines its Spotlight on BABB April 7, 2020 BABB combines blockchain, database hybrid and a utility token to facilitate borderless P2P transactions, lower barriers to financial inclusion, make the world of Crypto accessible to everyone and open up a whole new channel for individual and charity fundraisers. When BABB founder Rushd Averroës arrived in the U.K he was unable to get a bank [...]
Could Blockchain Save The 2020 US Election? April 7, 2020 Blockchain technology might hold the key for a free and fair election as Corona Virus threatens access to ballot boxes. Seeing Donald Trump lambasting the press, an abundance of MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats on television and over-the-top political advertising should be a sign that the United States is heading full throttle towards a [...]