Risky Cryptocurrencies

The BCBS has given a green light to a ‘disclosure framework’ that will detail how the exposure of banks with crypto assets should go about. The disclosure framework by BCBS directs banks to maintain public records of their crypto engagements and their exposure to these risky assets.

PayPal's stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook's failed, thanks to the payment giant's standing in Washington and policymakers' greater understanding of the issues in the last three years. PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the US dollar, making it the second major global company to launch a stable...

Blockchain Capital's X account was compromised by hackers on Wednesday. Scammers published a post promoting a fake crypto token on the microblogging platform. A link to a malicious website was also published along with the post, aiming to phish unsuspecting victims. It seems that Blockchain Capital has managed to regain access to its verified handl...

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has joined others in halting payments to crypto exchanges that have been most named in scam-related complaints. The development comes after almost 50 percent of scam funds reported to the Australian Financial Crimes Exchange in the last one month were related to cryptocurrency.

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is seeking to claw back more than $240 million (nearly Rs. 2,000 crore) it paid for stock trading platform Embed, saying former FTX insiders did no investigation before buying the essentially worthless bug-ridden software platform. FTX closed on the Embed acquisition just six weeks before the crypto exchange collapsed ...

Binance has listed 191 dApps on its Red Alarm list, warning that the named dApps could pose financial threats to unsuspecting members of the crypto community. Many of the dApps listed on the Red Alarm index have raised suspicions about offering fake tokens or high tax fees, raising the number of ways unsuspecting investors could lose their hard-ear...

Despite the ongoing slump in the crypto market, industry analysts are optimistic that this downturn has filtered out shaky and evidently risky firms from the already volatile industry, Circle CSO Dante Disparte said in a recent post for the World Economic Forum (WEF).

A section of investors rapidly moved away from the British pound and towards Bitcoin following the announcement of former Prime Minister Liz Truss' mini-budget on September 23. In bitcoin's infancy, a key selling point was its potential protection against currency depreciation and inflation. Over time, cryptocurrencies began to trade more in lock...

Mastercard has launched a new tool called ‘Crypto Secure’ that is intended to help banks and financial institutions detect as well as prevent fraudulent activities associated with virtual digital assets. CipherTrace blockchain startup will be providing the infrastructure for rolling-out the tool.

Cryptocurrencies fell to fresh lows on Monday on regulatory concerns and as investors globally turned shy on risky assets with interest rate rises looming around the world.

Coinbase reported a larger-than-expected quarterly loss as investors worried by this year's rout in risky assets shied away from trading in cryptocurrencies, sending its shares down 6 percent after the bell on Tuesday.

Coinbase reported a larger-than-expected quarterly loss as investors worried by this year's rout in risky assets shied away from trading in cryptocurrencies, sending its shares down 6 per cent after the bell on Tuesday.

Brian Hourigan, a New York-based real estate executive, prides himself on keeping a portfolio of assets with modest but predictable returns.

An impatient Indian investor class, largely driven by millennials, is leaping into riskier investments from peer-to-peer lending to cryptocurrencies in the hope of boosting returns rocked by one of the worst inflation rates in Asia.

Tether, the world's largest stablecoin, said it had boosted its holdings of US government debt while cutting exposure to riskier assets.

The BCBS has given a green light to a ‘disclosure framework’ that will detail how the exposure of banks with crypto assets should go about. The disclosure framework by BCBS directs banks to maintain public records of their crypto engagements and their exposure to these risky assets.

PayPal's stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook's failed, thanks to the payment giant's standing in Washington and policymakers' greater understanding of the issues in the last three years. PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the US dollar, making it the second major global company to launch a stable...

Blockchain Capital's X account was compromised by hackers on Wednesday. Scammers published a post promoting a fake crypto token on the microblogging platform. A link to a malicious website was also published along with the post, aiming to phish unsuspecting victims. It seems that Blockchain Capital has managed to regain access to its verified handl...

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has joined others in halting payments to crypto exchanges that have been most named in scam-related complaints. The development comes after almost 50 percent of scam funds reported to the Australian Financial Crimes Exchange in the last one month were related to cryptocurrency.

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is seeking to claw back more than $240 million (nearly Rs. 2,000 crore) it paid for stock trading platform Embed, saying former FTX insiders did no investigation before buying the essentially worthless bug-ridden software platform. FTX closed on the Embed acquisition just six weeks before the crypto exchange collapsed ...

Binance has listed 191 dApps on its Red Alarm list, warning that the named dApps could pose financial threats to unsuspecting members of the crypto community. Many of the dApps listed on the Red Alarm index have raised suspicions about offering fake tokens or high tax fees, raising the number of ways unsuspecting investors could lose their hard-ear...

Despite the ongoing slump in the crypto market, industry analysts are optimistic that this downturn has filtered out shaky and evidently risky firms from the already volatile industry, Circle CSO Dante Disparte said in a recent post for the World Economic Forum (WEF).

A section of investors rapidly moved away from the British pound and towards Bitcoin following the announcement of former Prime Minister Liz Truss' mini-budget on September 23. In bitcoin's infancy, a key selling point was its potential protection against currency depreciation and inflation. Over time, cryptocurrencies began to trade more in lock...

Mastercard has launched a new tool called ‘Crypto Secure’ that is intended to help banks and financial institutions detect as well as prevent fraudulent activities associated with virtual digital assets. CipherTrace blockchain startup will be providing the infrastructure for rolling-out the tool.

Cryptocurrencies fell to fresh lows on Monday on regulatory concerns and as investors globally turned shy on risky assets with interest rate rises looming around the world.

Coinbase reported a larger-than-expected quarterly loss as investors worried by this year's rout in risky assets shied away from trading in cryptocurrencies, sending its shares down 6 percent after the bell on Tuesday.

Coinbase reported a larger-than-expected quarterly loss as investors worried by this year's rout in risky assets shied away from trading in cryptocurrencies, sending its shares down 6 per cent after the bell on Tuesday.

Brian Hourigan, a New York-based real estate executive, prides himself on keeping a portfolio of assets with modest but predictable returns.

An impatient Indian investor class, largely driven by millennials, is leaping into riskier investments from peer-to-peer lending to cryptocurrencies in the hope of boosting returns rocked by one of the worst inflation rates in Asia.

Tether, the world's largest stablecoin, said it had boosted its holdings of US government debt while cutting exposure to riskier assets.