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  • Crypto ‘more closely resembles gambling than a financial service’, Treasury committee warns government

    Crypto

    An influential group of lawmakers has argued that consumer cryptocurrencies should be treated like gambling in the government’s upcoming crypto regulations.  In a new report on the crypto sector, MPs on the Treasury Select Committee concluded that retail trading in unbacked crypto “more closely resembles gambling than a financial service”. The MPs noted that the [...]

  • Crypto venture capital backing tumbles again as market ‘winter’ spooks investors

    Crypto winter

    The amount of cash invested into crypto companies globally tumbled sharply again in the first quarter of the year as investors continue to flee the market amid a deep ‘crypto winter’, new data has revealed.

  • Binance seeks green light from UK as City minister lays out future for crypto rules

    Crypto

    Binance said it would do “everything we possibly can” to be regulated in the UK as the world’s largest crypto exchange hit out at the US’s regulatory environment.  Speaking at the Financial Times’s Crypto and Digital Assets Conference, Binance’s chief strategy officer Patrick Hillmann argued the US “has been very confusing over the past six [...]

  • Britcoin: BoE’s CBDC head says digital pound will have ‘very highest standards of privacy’

    May 9, 2023

    The Bank of England’s director of fintech batted away concerns that a digital pound would threaten privacy as he confirmed that it would not be exchangeable with cryptocurrencies as they currently exist. Speaking at the Financial Times’ Crypto and Digital Assets Conference, Tom Mutton – who is responsible for leading the CBDC unit at the [...]

  • Crypto: As government consultation closes, what next for UK regulation?

    May 1, 2023

    The government’s consultation on crypto regulations closed over the weekend with figures in the crypto industry welcoming proposals for greater oversight of the sector.  The government hopes the regulations will turn the UK into a digital hub. The plans follow soon after a series of high-profile problems in the crypto industry, such as the collapse [...]

  • Mastercard seeks to expand crypto card tie-ups

    April 28, 2023

    Mastercard will expand its cryptocurrency payment card programme by seeking more partnerships with crypto firms, the company’s head of crypto and blockchain said, even as the sector comes under closer scrutiny from regulators and banks grow wary. Mastercard has already partnered with crypto exchanges including Binance, Nexo and Gemini to offer crypto-linked payment cards in some countries. The Binance cards allow users to make payments in traditional currencies, funded by their cryptocurrency holdings on the [...]

  • NatWest imposes £1,000 daily limit on Crypto spending to protect people against ‘losing life changing sums’

    March 14, 2023

    NatWest imposed stricter restrictions on cryptocurrency transfers as it seeks to protect its customers after £329m was lost by UK consumers last year.  The bank is implementing a daily limit of £1,000 and a 30-day payment limit of £5,000 to cryptocurrency exchanges.  It is implementing the rules to “help protect customers losing life changing sums [...]

  • FCA clamps down on illegal crypto ATMs in East London

    March 8, 2023

    The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has clamped down on unregistered crypto ATMs in East London as it expands its efforts to shut down the illicit sector .  The FCA inspected several sites in a joint operation with the Metropolitan Police.  Crypto ATMs allow people to buy or convert money into cryptoassets. No crypto ATMs are [...]

  • How Bitcoin and crypto could revolutionise the housing market

    February 23, 2023

    While crypto currency like Bitcoin is too volatile an asset to be presetly useful for completing property transactions, there are myriad ways the technology could be applied to property purchases. Here are some ways crypto could change how he sees the future of property sales and how the blockchain could be at its heart. DOES [...]

  • FCA warns crypto execs could face two years in jail for breaching financial promotion rules

    February 6, 2023

    The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned crypto businesses that breaching new financial promotion regulations could lead to executives facing up to two years in prison. The FCA said that crypto companies which fail to meet its financial promotion rules will breach the Financial Services and Markets Act, “a criminal offence punishable by up to [...]

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