Bitcoin.de Announces Partnership with European Bank
Last year in December, Bitcoin Central, the leading Bitcoin exchange in France, shocked the Bitcoin world with an announcement which at the time was the first of its kind: a formal partnership with Aqoba, a licensed payment services provider - a classification which Bitcoin Central's David François described as "exactly what a bank does, minus the....
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Ukraine has been granted observer status in the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP). Officials in Kyiv hope the move will facilitate the implementation of blockchain technologies by the Ukrainian government and lead to the adoption of more efficient crypto regulations.
Ukraine Advances Toward Membership of European Blockchain Partnership
Ukraine has been accepted as an observer in the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP), an initiative to develop an EU strategy on blockchain and build blockchain infrastructure for public services. The observer status is a step towards full....
AlphaPoint announces partnership with Bitfinex. Las Vegas, Nevada – November 3rd at Money 2020 AlphaPoint, a white-label exchange platform, announced a strategic partnership with Bitfinex, a top bitcoin exchange by trading volume based out of Hong Kong. Bitfinex is adopting AlphaPoint’s platform as it’s backend in preparation for scaling to higher transaction volumes. The partnership was announced a day after the official launch of meXBT, a Mexican digital currencies exchange that is powered by the AlphaPoint platform.
European Central Bank. In a landmark monetary policy move, the European Central Bank (ECB) has announced negative interest rates. The ECB will charge an interest rate of -0.1% to banks wishing to store euros within central bank vaults. Domestically, the intention is to prod banks into lending money to businesses as opposed to buying government bonds. Internationally, the intention is to cause depreciation of the Euro relative to other currencies to increase the competitiveness of European exporters. It is unlikely that individual users in the 18 countries under the ECB's control will see....
President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde took to Twitter earlier to announce that the European Central Bank has decided to move up the investigation phase for the euro digital currency. The tweet comes in response to a tweet from the European Central Bank official Twitter handle, announcing that the institution would launch a […]
The European market leader in cryptocurrency payment solution BIPS announced today a partnership with Fidor Bank of Germany to offer European merchants free and fast bank settlements. Fidor Bank, based in Munich, Germany, is no stranger to cryptocurrency. In January of this year, the bank launched a bitcoin derivatives market, allowing speculators to bet on the rising and falling prices of bitcoin. These improved settlements are a part of SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area. SEPA is a European Union initiative that allows for the simplification of bank transfers denominated in the Euro....