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Austria’s BitPanda Secures FCA Approval in UK, Plans to Offer ‘Set-and-Forget' Savings Strategy
On Wednesday, February 12, BitPanda announced that the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has approved its registration to offer crypto-related services to British investors. According to FCA records, the exchange has also established an office in London to oversee its UK operations.
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Coinbase Acquires UK FCA's VASP Licence to Offer 'Better' Suite of Crypto Services
Coinbase says its new VASP licence will allow it to offer a ‘better’ suite of crypto products and services for the communities of UK’s retail and institutional investors. The exchange will include fiat-to-crypto service offerings as part of its business expansion there.
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Kraken Obtains MiFID Licence to Launch Crypto Derivatives Trading in the EU
Kraken announced that it has secured the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence in the EU. Kraken managed to secure this MiFID licence after it completed the acquisition of an investment firm named Cypirot. Post this purchase, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) gave its approval to Kraken to be an MiFID-licenc...
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Mistral Small 3 Open-Source AI Model Introduced, Outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini
Mistral, the Paris-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the Mistral Small 3 AI model on Thursday. The company, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on Hugging Face as well as several other platforms. Mistral claimed that the latest model was built with processing speed, eff...
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Elon Musk's Starlink Reportedly Submits Formal Acceptance of Licence Norms, Could Launch in India Soon
Starlink has reportedly accepted the security and data storage requirements mandated by the Indian government for satellite broadband providers, aiming to launch services in India. The satellite spectrum will be allocated administratively. Elon Musk-led Starlink will compete with providers like Reliance's JioSpaceFiber, Airtel, and Amazon Kuiper, w...
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X Money Digital Payments Service Unveiled; Platform Partners Visa to Introduce P2P Payments
X Money was introduced by Elon Musk's X platform on Wednesday as a new digital wallet and payments service. The new X Money service will allow users to send and receive P2P payments, transferring funds from their bank to a digital wallet and then to another wallet, or directly using their debit card. Partnering with Visa, X Money aims to compete wi...
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Bitpanda, OKX, Crypto.com Acquire Licences in EU as MiCA Laws Attracts Web3 to RegionÂ
Crypto exchanges OKX and BitPanda have secured licences in the EU region, making their operations legally compliant in 30 countries that comprises the European Economic Area (EEA). While OKX has received its licence in Malta, Bitpanda bagged its MiCA licence in Germany.Â
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Hugging Face Introduces Compact Versions of SmolVLM Vision Language Model That Can Run on Consumer Laptops
Hugging Face introduced two new variants to its SmolVLM vision language models last week. The new artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in 256 million and 500 million parameter sizes, with the former being claimed as the world’s smallest vision model by the company. The new variants focus on retaining the efficiency of the older two-b...
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Consensual Relationships Do Not Grant Licence For Assault: High Court
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that consensual relationships do not grant licence for assault.
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ID Card, Learner's Licence: Cops Get Proof Saif Attacker Is Bangladeshi
The Mumbai Police teams investigating the stabbing of actor Saif Ali Khan have accessed two identity cards proving the nationality of his alleged attacker Sariful Islam, who had illegally entered India from Bangladesh last year.
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Microsoft Unveils Open-Source MatterGen AI Model That Can Generate Inorganic Material Designs
Microsoft researchers unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model last week that can design new inorganic materials with desired properties. Dubbed MatterGen, the open-source large language model (LLM) is currently available in the public domain. The researchers have also published a paper highlighting that the technology can be used to accel...
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Tether Set to Relocate Head Office to Crypto-Friendly El Salvador
Tether has decided to move its headquarters from the British Virgin Islands to El Salvador, The development comes after Tether recently acquired the licence of a virtual asset service provider (VASP) there.
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Atletico Madrid Blast Decision To Let Barcelona's Dani Olmo Play As Dissent Grows
La Liga team Atletico Madrid criticised on Thursday a "dangerous precedent" set by the Spanish national sports council (CSD) to allow Barcelona midfielder Dani Olmo to play on a temporary basis after his licence expired
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Hong Kong-Based HashKey Obtains VASP Licence in Ireland to Comply With EU's AMLD5
The Central Bank of Ireland has granted the licence of a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) to the HashKey exchange, giving it legal permissions to offer a variety of crypto-related services in the country.
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Manmohan Singh: India's 'Reforms' Man And Politician With A Difference
He drew the roadmap of India's economic reform, unshackled it from the licence raj and pulled it back from the brink when even all its gold reserve was pledged.
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Austria’s BitPanda Secures FCA Approval in UK, Plans to Offer ‘Set-and-Forget' Savings Strategy
On Wednesday, February 12, BitPanda announced that the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has approved its registration to offer crypto-related services to British investors. According to FCA records, the exchange has also established an office in London to oversee its UK operations.
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Coinbase Acquires UK FCA's VASP Licence to Offer 'Better' Suite of Crypto Services
Coinbase says its new VASP licence will allow it to offer a ‘better’ suite of crypto products and services for the communities of UK’s retail and institutional investors. The exchange will include fiat-to-crypto service offerings as part of its business expansion there.
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Kraken Obtains MiFID Licence to Launch Crypto Derivatives Trading in the EU
Kraken announced that it has secured the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence in the EU. Kraken managed to secure this MiFID licence after it completed the acquisition of an investment firm named Cypirot. Post this purchase, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) gave its approval to Kraken to be an MiFID-licenc...
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Mistral Small 3 Open-Source AI Model Introduced, Outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini
Mistral, the Paris-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the Mistral Small 3 AI model on Thursday. The company, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on Hugging Face as well as several other platforms. Mistral claimed that the latest model was built with processing speed, eff...
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Elon Musk's Starlink Reportedly Submits Formal Acceptance of Licence Norms, Could Launch in India Soon
Starlink has reportedly accepted the security and data storage requirements mandated by the Indian government for satellite broadband providers, aiming to launch services in India. The satellite spectrum will be allocated administratively. Elon Musk-led Starlink will compete with providers like Reliance's JioSpaceFiber, Airtel, and Amazon Kuiper, w...
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X Money Digital Payments Service Unveiled; Platform Partners Visa to Introduce P2P Payments
X Money was introduced by Elon Musk's X platform on Wednesday as a new digital wallet and payments service. The new X Money service will allow users to send and receive P2P payments, transferring funds from their bank to a digital wallet and then to another wallet, or directly using their debit card. Partnering with Visa, X Money aims to compete wi...
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Bitpanda, OKX, Crypto.com Acquire Licences in EU as MiCA Laws Attracts Web3 to RegionÂ
Crypto exchanges OKX and BitPanda have secured licences in the EU region, making their operations legally compliant in 30 countries that comprises the European Economic Area (EEA). While OKX has received its licence in Malta, Bitpanda bagged its MiCA licence in Germany.Â
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Hugging Face Introduces Compact Versions of SmolVLM Vision Language Model That Can Run on Consumer Laptops
Hugging Face introduced two new variants to its SmolVLM vision language models last week. The new artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in 256 million and 500 million parameter sizes, with the former being claimed as the world’s smallest vision model by the company. The new variants focus on retaining the efficiency of the older two-b...
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Consensual Relationships Do Not Grant Licence For Assault: High Court
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that consensual relationships do not grant licence for assault.
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ID Card, Learner's Licence: Cops Get Proof Saif Attacker Is Bangladeshi
The Mumbai Police teams investigating the stabbing of actor Saif Ali Khan have accessed two identity cards proving the nationality of his alleged attacker Sariful Islam, who had illegally entered India from Bangladesh last year.
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Microsoft Unveils Open-Source MatterGen AI Model That Can Generate Inorganic Material Designs
Microsoft researchers unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model last week that can design new inorganic materials with desired properties. Dubbed MatterGen, the open-source large language model (LLM) is currently available in the public domain. The researchers have also published a paper highlighting that the technology can be used to accel...
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Tether Set to Relocate Head Office to Crypto-Friendly El Salvador
Tether has decided to move its headquarters from the British Virgin Islands to El Salvador, The development comes after Tether recently acquired the licence of a virtual asset service provider (VASP) there.
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Atletico Madrid Blast Decision To Let Barcelona's Dani Olmo Play As Dissent Grows
La Liga team Atletico Madrid criticised on Thursday a "dangerous precedent" set by the Spanish national sports council (CSD) to allow Barcelona midfielder Dani Olmo to play on a temporary basis after his licence expired
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Hong Kong-Based HashKey Obtains VASP Licence in Ireland to Comply With EU's AMLD5
The Central Bank of Ireland has granted the licence of a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) to the HashKey exchange, giving it legal permissions to offer a variety of crypto-related services in the country.
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Manmohan Singh: India's 'Reforms' Man And Politician With A Difference
He drew the roadmap of India's economic reform, unshackled it from the licence raj and pulled it back from the brink when even all its gold reserve was pledged.
