Ethereum (ETH) had a comeback weekend, this past weekend and has now reclaimed it’s long-time #2 spot on the cryptocurrency market, passing Ripple. Source: CoinMarketCap At press-time, ETH is trading at $1,115.24 a coin, down -1.47% in 24 hours. However, it grew nearly 44.4% in just a week’s time, as its fourth-quarter report performance was…
2017 has been an incredible year for the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin went mainstream as an alternative investment, the initial coin offerings (ICO) market exploded to raise over $4 billion dollars for blockchain startups, and by the end of the year, it seemed like everyone wanted to jump onto the crypto money train. 2018 will bring…
Clearing However, netting benefits come at the cost of intraday credit extension, explicitly or implicitly. Clearing mitigates the twin risks that arise from the necessity of post-trade settlement. The most salient one is principal risk, where one counterparty to a trade pays but the other fails to. This risk materialized spectacularly in the 1974 bankruptcy…
Bitcoin (BTC) has had a rocky 30 days since its futures contracts launched on Wall Street. Despite that, there’s no denying that it was a phenomenal year for the world’s first digital currency. Source: coinmarketcap.com At press-time, Bitcoin is trading at $17,372.10 a coin, up 13.06% for the day. The digital currency has stayed under the…
The consolidated value of cryptocurrencies has recently crossed the $750 billion mark. Bitcoin, the most popular among cryptocurrencies, accounts for almost 40% the total market capitalization of crypto markets. Market capitalization is always considered as a major valuation metric that multiplies the value of an asset by the value of that security in movement. As…
Five days from now, BitConnect, which is a financial system startup, had plans to commence a token sale, and if you were looking forward to this, I have some bad news. The Texas State Securities Board, which has served to protect investors in Texas since 1957, has terminated these plans. Why? The Texas State Securities…
This is Part 2 of a Multi-Part Series. In Part 1 (“The Tokenization of Research”), we examined the regulatory differences between MiFID II and Section 28(e) of the Securities Act of 1934 and the expected financial impact of MiFID II on asset managers and brokerage firms. The options for asset managers and brokerage firms are: adopt…
Cardano (ADA) has been in the shadows lately, slowly climbing the cryptocurrency charts and has now passed Litecoin, Monero, Dash, and IOTA to claim the fifth largest digital currency by market cap at $31.3 Billion. Source: coinmarketcap At press-time, ADA is currently trading at $1.21, a coin, up 14.78% on the day. That is just…
The world just got itself a new billionaire. After some deliberation, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen has unofficially been declared the richest person in the world. George Kikvadze, the founder of BitFury, tweeted out that with Larsen’s 37% stake in the Ripple company, which is estimated to have a value of $320 billion, Larsen is now…
Earlier this morning, the cryptocurrency Ethereum broke new records for itself, surpassing $1,000 for the first time and hitting an all-time high of $1,045.08. Ethereum’s market cap also broke records this morning by surpassing $100 billion. The surge for the cryptocurrency has slightly worn off by now, with its price currently being listed as $994.49…
