With Hong Kong facing a shortage of cash due to defunct ATMs and the crash of PMC Bank in India leaving almost a million people without access to their accounts, Bitcoin could emerge as the savior of those facing financial crises.
Crisis in...
Cryptocurrencies have been a hot topic for regulators in the past couple of years as they caught the public’s attention following their parabolic price surge in 2017. Now, some countries have even gone so far as to legalize employers to pay ...
The German Federal Ministry of Finance has published a key issues paper on the treatment and regulation of blockchain-based securities, according to a ministry announcement on March 8.
In the paper initially released on March 7, the regulator ...
Time is running out for the Indian government and the Reserve Bank of India to ignore/wholesale ban cryptocurrency, according to a local publication called Inc42.
Last April, as CCN reported, the RBI banned all financial institutions from work...
The Bank of Israel has released the results of a research study commissioned in late 2017 to examine the feasibility of issuing a cryptocurrency that would be equivalent in value to the shekel.
Dubbed the ‘Digital Shekel’, the proposed cryptoc...
Russia’s Financial Monitor Service (FMS) is seeking the intervention of a global financial watchdog to regulate cryptocurrencies, local media sources have reported.
Russia Wants Global Crypto Regulations
The Russian financial regulatory agenc...