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Bakkt Could Actually Launch Its Bitcoin Futures Trading In 10 Days Barring Any CFTC Objections
Bakkt may finally receive the approval for its BTC futures in the next 10 days. It all depends on whether the U. S. CFTC decides to not to disapprove the futures.
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Fintech Firm Billion Seals $2.1 Mln European Commission Grant for Blockchain System
Polish-British fintech firm Billon has sealed an almost €2 million grant from the European Commission’s SME Instrument program to develop a blockchain document management system.
tags: Fintech Blockchain
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Wild Crypto Market’s Traders Get Something New: FDIC Protection
Crypto market prime dealer and trading system SFOX is partnering with NY-based MY Safra Bank to offer its traders deposit accounts backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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What is a Hedge or Safe Haven Asset for Bitcoin Investors?
Our empirical results show that traditional assets such as global equities and global bonds are weak hedges for Bitcoin. Furthermore, we observe that gold acts as a strong hedge against Bitcoin during an extreme bearish Bitcoin market, although the impact is marginal.
tags: Bitcoin Fintech CryptoAssets
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A Model Crypto-Asset Regulatory Framework by Leon Perlman
The overall goal of any regulation should be to fasten the activities of the most proximate regulators to particular asset classes or value transfer/exchange mechanisms so as to avoid regulatory arbitrage. Where there are no proximate regulations to do so, regulatory sandboxes by the most proximate regulators could be employed.
Kiffmeister’s Fintech Daily Digest 05/15/2019
