Major bank Standard Chartered is launching a cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage platform, giving its clients access to crypto assets, like Bitcoin and Ether. Standard Chartered gets in a growing list of major banking corporations worldwide that have accepted cryptocurrency. On Wednesday, the bank declared that a Standard Chartered PLC unit aims to start a cryptocurrency…
Google has announced an update to its existing financial products and services policy, including a policy on cryptocurrency advertising. According to its notice on Wednesday: “This policy will apply globally to all accounts that advertise these financial products.” The new rules will take effect on August 3, and all prior crypto exchange certifications will be…
National Bank of Egypt and UAE Financial Service Provider Set to Leverage Decentralized Payments Network RippleNet The National Bank of Egypt (NBE) has partnered with Ripple (XRP) to establish a cross-border payments corridor with the United Arab Emirates via RippleNet, according to a press release published on Tuesday. “Egypt ranks amongst the top five countries…
After the news about the ban of cryptocurrency in China, bitcoin did not have the best days, however, the situation was improved by Elon Musk’s speech on Twitter The virtual currency fell to almost $30,000 — less than half the record value it reached last month — before climbing back over $39,500 around 2000 GMT….
Samana Developers announced plans to accept Dogecoin as payment right before the launch of its Jumeriah Village Circle Subai residential project this summer. A Dubai developer announced on Wednesday it plans to begin accepting Dogecoin as a payment option for its latest project launch, despite recent turbulence in cryptocurrency markets. Samana Developers made the announcement…
For a year and a half, Ethereum was at risk of a serious DoS attack threat, and last month, Ether held a Berlin hardfork in which there was a solution to this problem, read more about this and the comments of the developers below: According to the May 18 post written by Ethereum developer Péter…