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Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong's director of licensing and head of the fintech division both confirmed that the regulator is taking into consideration allowing retail investors to invest directly in crypto assets. "We'

Japan-based financial services firm SBI Group has announced its plans to establish several new businesses based on digital currency. The group is simultaneously developing eight businesses including hedge fund management, mining, and a deri

Bitcoin exchange OKEx has announced it will join Bitfinex in opening a futures market to enable traders to speculate on the outcome of the SegWit2x hard fork scheduled for November. Notably, the exchange states that it will list the origina

Despite the explosion of Blockchain enthusiasm worldwide in 2017, CEOs still struggle to find the words to explain what it is. Interviews with three company heads by Forbes at the publication’s Global CEO Conference this week produced mixed

China is a Bitcoin powerhouse. An Article by Willie Tan in Cointelegraph recently concluded that 70 percent of Bitcoin mining is located in China. The Chinese have taken to Bitcoin like fish to water and there is no reason why they shouldn’

Hong Kong’s chief financial regulator has, in an official statement, announced that digital tokens offered in an initial coin offering (ICO) sale may be deemed as securities. In an official announcement by the Securities and Futures Commiss

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) is planning to launch a blockchain-powered private market aimed at helping smaller firms obtain financing. HKEX chief executive Charles Li detailed the plan, which would play out through a separate ventur