Bakkt Launches Bitcoin Options in US, Futures in Asia

Bakkt has launched two new regulated bitcoin derivatives products. Within hours of launch, Bakkt announced that over 1,000 futures contracts had been traded in... more »

Bank of China Issues $2.8B in Bonds for Small Businesses Using Blockchain Tech

Bank of China, one of the four major commercial banks in China, has issued 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) in blockchain-based... more »

ECB Official Says Digital Currency Could Be an Alternative to Cash

A digital currency could ensure that citizens remain able to use central bank money even if cash is eventually no longer used, a European central banker... more »

Digital Payments as enabler for revenue improvement

a cura di Deloitte

Il mondo dei pagamenti sta vivendo da alcuni anni un periodo di profonda trasformazione, che ha portato alla nascita di nuovi player nazionali ed internazionali volti a soddisfare le... more »

What Indian Crypto Exchanges Are Doing to Protect P2P Users

With the Supreme Court of India postponing the crypto hearing, the Indian crypto community is calling for better protection when trading on P2P... more »

China Scraps Plan to Categorize Bitcoin Mining as Industry to Be Eliminated

More than six months after the China National Development and Reform Commission proposed to categorize bitcoin mining as an industry to be phased out from the country, it appears the agency has now scrapped that... more »

How Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Cash System Was Revealed 11 Years Ago

On October 31, 2008, on the eve of Halloween, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper... https://news.bitcoin.com/how-bitcoins-peer-to-peer-cash-system-was-revealed-11-years-ago/ more »

Payments – a platform for innovation

London has a long history at the heart of the global financial system. It continues to build on this expertise and is one of the leading fintech hubs in the world... https://www.bis.org/review/r190925f.htm more »

Binance Is Pitching Its Stablecoin as a Government-Friendly Libra Competitor

Crypto exchange Binance is now explicitly positioning its Venus stablecoin project as a government-friendly alternative to Facebook’s... more »

Senior officials from public authorities meet on stablecoins

Senior officials from public authorities worldwide met in Basel on Monday to discuss policy and regulatory issues... https://www.bis.org/press/p190916.htm more »