Irisium Ltd, a leading provider of market monitoring and analytics software for exchanges, regulators, buy-side and sell-side firms, and Bitstamp, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume in Europe, today announced a partnership to implement the Irisium monitoring platform on Bitstamp’s exchange. Irisium’s state...

Recently, Bitfinex briefly banked with HSBC through a private account via Global Trading Solutions, and subsequently suspended all fiat deposits for nearly a week. Now, according to a source familiar with the matter, Bitfinex appears to be banking with Bank of Communications through a...

The London-based crypto exchange, which is backed by Transferwise founder Taavet Hinrikus and venture capital firm Passion Capital, is the first offshore company to gain recognition as a regulated entity under Gibraltar’s flagship legislation for cryptocurrencies and blockchain companies. Under the British overseas territory’s...

Bithumb announced Wednesday the launch of Bithumb Crypto Index (BTCI) which comprises two separate indices. BTMI is calculated based on all cryptocurrencies listed on Bithumb while BTAI only takes into account “all non-bitcoin cryptocurrencies” listed on the exchange. The former aims to provide “an overall...

Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked, losing a 6.7 billion yen (about $60 million worth of cryptocurrency), including 5,966 bitcoins. The licensed exchange, called Zaif, is operated by the Tech Bureau. It said on Thursday that the exchange first noticed an unusual outflow of...

Binance, the largest global crypto exchange, will soon start private beta testing a crypto-fiat exchange in Singapore, as Binance co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) tweeted on September 15. https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1040918291202506752 According to Finance Magnates, prior to posting the news on Twitter, CZ first revealed the plans...