Tag: finance

Binance on January 29 also restricted 281 personal Nigerian accounts, with approximately 38% of these at the request of international law enforcement. ( read original story ...)

US-based crypto as a service platform Fireblocks raised $550 million in Series E funding, quadrupling its valuation to $8 billion from six months ago. ( read original story ...)

Since the beginning of the year, the market value of cryptocurrencies has decreased by approximately $500 billion, plummeting from $2.2 trillion to $1.68 trillion. ( read original story ...)

In its third funding round in six months, FTX Trading, one of the world's busiest cryptocurrency exchanges, has raised another $400 million in new investments, the firm announced Monday morning, ... ( read original story ...)

Terraform Labs' luna coin fell sharply on Monday as controversy enveloped DeFi platform Wonderland, denting related tokens in the ecosystem. ( read original story ...)

To beat out other miners doing exactly the same thing requires not only fleets of increasingly fast computers but huge amounts of energy to run them. From wind farms in West Texas to an old coal plant ... ( read original story ...)

Investment in high-end, sustainable computing power gives Northern Data an edge in the cryptocurrency mining sector, but the bigger opportunity lies in cloud computing services ... ( read original story ...)

Binance Holdings Ltd. has built up a $1 billion insurance fund for its users amid a barrage of hacks on cryptocurrency trading platforms, according to a memo. ( read original story ...)

At closing bell, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average advanced 284.64 points, or 1.07%, to 27,001.98. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 19.04 points, ... ( read original story ...)

Skadden advised J.P. Morgan, Crédit Agricole CIB, Daiwa Capital Markets Europe and Morgan Stanley as the underwriters in the US$500,000,000 offering of 1.625% government guaranteed bonds due January ... ( read original story ...)

Sharp price swings in cryptocurrencies are causing “destabilising” capital flows in emerging markets, and the use of crypto in place of traditional currencies poses “immediate and acute risks”, ... ( read original story ...)

Crypto exchange BitMEX airdropped 1.5 million BMEX, its first native tokens, to users as it looks to revive retail interest. The tokens were airdropped based on a user’s previous activity on the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Nikkei share average extended its tech-driven rally in afternoon trade after the country's premier said he is not currently considering issuing a new state of emergency. Chipmakers, Sony and ... ( read original story ...)

Asian markets are well placed compared to the U.S., and Japan and China are the top picks, according to an investment strategist from Citi Private Bank. ( read original story ...)

While the ECB is expected to maintain the status quo, the BoE is likely to raise rates by 25bps to 0.5%. Markets will also keep an eye on US-Russia tensions around Ukraine. The risk sentiment that had ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sent a chill through local markets late last year with talk of introducing restrictions on share buybacks, but the head of the Tokyo Stock Exchange says investors ... ( read original story ...)