Tag: Exchange

Cyprus Built Its Name on CFDs. Now a Crypto Exchange Is One of Its Biggest Hirers.

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For most of the past two decades, the word Cyprus in financial services carried a specific meaning: CFD brokers. The island, anchored by CySEC regulation and easy MiFID passporting into the European Economic Area, became the operational backbone of retail trading for a generation of firms. Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!) Compliance officers, relationship managers, and MetaTrader specialists filled the office parks outside Limassol. That identity is now being complicated by a new class of employer. Kraken, one of the world’s…

French Aerospace Manufacturer ST Group to List on Blockchain-Powered Lise Exchange for SME Financing – News Bytes Bitcoin News

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On April 2, 2026, Toulouse-based ST Group announced its upcoming listing on Lise, a specialized French stock exchange utilizing blockchain technology for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The subscription period for the aerospace component manufacturer begins on April 9, marking a shift toward digital financial markets for the French defense industrial base. The Lise exchange employs distributed ledger technology to streamline the issuance and trading of shares, offering a decentralized alternative to traditional regional markets. ST Group, which has operated since 1998, intends to use the capital to increase production…

BTCC Exchange Named Official Regional Partner of the Argentine National Team

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April 2nd, 2026 – LODZ, Poland BTCC, the world’s longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, today announced its official partnership with the Argentine Football Association (AFA) as the regional partner of the Argentine National Team. The landmark partnership spans the full 2026 FIFA World Cup schedule, bringing together two names whose legacies have been forged through a long-standing history of excellence, resilience, and an unbreakable will to win. Built for Champions: A Partnership Rooted in Shared History Argentina’s football legacy is among the most celebrated in international history. As the reigning FIFA World…

Malta and Seychelles Regulators Agree to Exchange Information on CFD and Financial Oversight

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Options Technology Opens a Low-Latency Door to Japan's Alternative Exchange

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Options Technology has added the Japan Alternative Market to its connectivity lineup, making the proprietary trading system accessible to its clients through AtlasFabric, the company’s global trading network, Options announced today (Thursday). Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!) JAX operates as a Proprietary Trading System under Japanese financial regulation, offering an alternative venue alongside the country’s established exchanges for equity trading, price discovery, and liquidity access. Options said it joined the project as a founding partner at launch, handling both trading connectivity…

CTFC Hits KuCoin With $500,000 Penalty, Bans Exchange From Allowing US Users To Trade on Platform

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has levied a $500,000 penalty and restrictions against crypto exchange KuCoin’s operator, barring it from allowing US users to trade on its platform without proper registration. The CFTC says a federal court in the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, the entity behind KuCoin. The order finds the company allowed US participants to access its trading platform without registering as a foreign board of trade. The court has imposed a $500,000 civil monetary penalty and permanently enjoined…

Citadel Securities-Backed Crypto Exchange Enters The Fray

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Bitcoin Exchange Inflows Flash Rare Signal As Large Deposits Return

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On-chain data shows the average Bitcoin exchange deposit has ballooned to a significant size, a potential sign that whales are making inflows. Average Bitcoin Exchange Inflow Hits 2.62 BTC As pointed out by CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn in an X post, the mean Exchange Inflow has shot up for Bitcoin. The “Exchange Inflow” here refers to an indicator that keeps track of the BTC transactions that are heading toward centralized exchanges from self-custodial wallets. In the context of the current topic, the version of the metric that’s of interest is the…

Crypto Exchange Bithumb to Delay IPO until after 2028: Report

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According to the company CFO, Bithumb was “strengthen[ing] accounting policies and internal controls” ahead of its IPO plans, already delayed from 2025. South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is reportedly expecting its initial public offering (IPO) sometime after 2028, in another delay after restructuring and regulatory hurdles. According to a Tuesday report from Maeil Business News Korea, a Bithumb official said that it would “focus on preparing for the listing until 2027.” CFO Jeong Sang-gyun said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting that Bithumb was “strengthen[ing] accounting policies and internal controls”…

174 Registered CASPs, but Only 14 Can Operate a Centralized Crypto Exchange (CEX)? – Legal Bitcoin News

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MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises crypto and FinTech companies on MiCA licensing, CASP and VASP applications, and regulatory structuring across Europe and beyond. If the EU has already issued 174 MiCA licenses, why are there only 14 actual crypto exchanges on the list? To demystify this, we need to decode what the public registers are really telling us about how crypto businesses are setting up in Europe. That contrast,…