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Digital assets startup Elwood receives FCA regulatory approval as a service company

Elwood Technologies LLP ("Elwood" or "the Company"), a leading software-as-a-service ("SaaS") platform that provides institutional-grade access to digital asset exchanges and liquidity venues, today announced it has been authorised as a service company by the UK Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA").

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BIS Innovation Hub discloses first six projects for 2024 work programme

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today announced the first batch of six new projects in its 2024 Innovation Hub work programme, including experimentations on cyber security, fighting financial crime, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and green finance.

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SWIAT enables financial institutions to issue crypto fund units on the blockchain

SWIAT GmbH ("SWIAT"), a FinTech specialising in the development of blockchain software for an open, decentralised financial market infrastructure, has reached another milestone in its still young company history: Deka Investment, one of Germany’s largest fund providers, has issued shares in the crypto special fund A-Deka-BlockchainEINS on SWIAT’s blockchain for the first time.

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Dubai First becomes first issuer in the region of Mastercard Token Connect services

Dubai First, the consumer services platform under First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), has become the first issuer in the region to leverage Mastercard Token Connect to push customers’ tokenized card details from its mobile app to Click to Pay and digital wallets. The collaboration with Mastercard seeks to empower merchants and boost consumer adoption by enabling Dubai First cardholders to benefit from Click to Pay services at checkout.

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BVNK and Deriv expand partnership

Deriv, a leading global online brokerage specialising in trading and derivatives, is excited to announce the expansion of its partnership with BVNK, the globally regulated payments platform bridging traditional payment systems with blockchain technology.

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BitGo receives in-principle approval from MAS for Major Payment Institution licence

BitGo, the leading provider of financial services for digital assets, announces that its subsidiary in Singapore, BitGo Singapore Pte. Ltd., has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for a Major Payment Institution Licence.

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CoinTracking releases crypto tax tool for UK investors

Crypto taxation in the UK is quickly changing, but CoinTracking has launched a crypto tax tool that simplifies UK crypto taxes.

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B2C2 promotes Thomas Restout to group CEO

B2C2, the leading institutional digital asset liquidity provider, today announces that Thomas Restout has been appointed Group CEO, replacing Nicola White who has left the company.

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BitMEX sends Bitcoin to the Moon

BitMEX, the world’s leading crypto derivatives exchange, is sending Bitcoin to the Moon on January 8 at 02:18 am ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Working in partnerships with Astrobotic, Bitcoin Magazine, and Oxcart Assembly, the mission’s success will prove the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technology in creating a truly borderless financial system beyond Earth, in addition to the inaugural Western soft lunar landing since NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The Bitcoin carried on the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket, and integrated onto Peregrine-1, commercial lunar lander, is scheduled to reach the Moon in late February (tentative arrival date: February 23, 2024).

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Tarabut partners with decentralised savings platform Hakbah

Hakbah - the KSA-based fintech savings platform - announces a new partnership with Tarabut - MENA’s leading open banking platform, and an investor in the region’s digital transformation.

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Whampoa Digital and Wemade form US$100 million strategic partnership for Web3 Fund and digital asset

Singapore-based Whampoa Digital and Wemade, a leading Korean gaming company, have entered into a strategic partnership to collaborate on a US$100 million Web3 Fund to be established by Wemade (Wemade Web3 Fund) as well as on digital asset initiatives in the Middle East.

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Elwood appoints Chris Lawn CEO

Elwood Technologies, a leading platform that provides institutional-grade access to digital asset markets and liquidity venues, today announced that Chris Lawn has been appointed CEO.