Exchanges


Finance

Fidelity International Invests $14M in Hong Kong Crypto Exchange Operator

Fidelity International, a spin-off of the U.S. financial services giant Fidelity Investments, has invested $14 million in Hong Kong-based BC Group, which operates crypto exchange OSL.

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Finance

Insolvent Exchange FCoin Had Bitcoin Outflow Problems Just Two Months After Launch: Report

The FCoin exchange, which revealed its insolvency this week, may have already had issues as early as July 2018.

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Finance

Riot Blockchain Plans Sale of Crypto Exchange as It Invests More Millions in Bitcoin Mining

The Nasdaq-listed company is installing thousands of new Antminer devices from Bitmain at its Oklahoma facility.

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Finance

Norwegian Air May Allow Customers to Pay With Crypto as Soon as Spring

Norwegian Air would accept cryptocurrency payments via crypto exchange NBX.

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Markets

Crypto Exchange Binance Suspends Trading Over 'Systems Messaging Error'

The Binance exchange said an outage was due to system maintenance prompted by a problem with a data feed.

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Markets

UK Crypto Exchange Coinfloor Launches ‘No BS’ Service for Bitcoin Beginners

The Coinfloor exchange, which dropped ethereum to focus solely on bitcoin, is launching a simplified buying service for crypto newbies.

Obi Nwosu, CEO and founder of Coinfloor, at CoinDesk Invest (center)

Markets

Derivatives Exchange Deribit Launches Daily Ether Options

The new ETH options will be tradable for just 24 hours before expiry.

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Markets

Crypto Exchange FCoin Insolvent After Revealing Up to $130M Bitcoin Shortfall

Fcoin, a crypto exchange that adopted the controversial "trans-fee mining" model, has paused trading and withdrawal services after revealing a shortage of crypto assets worth up to $130 million.

Zhang Jian image via CoinDesk archive

Markets

Binance to Announce White-Label Exchange Infrastructure for Local Markets

Binance will soon launch a digital asset trading platform to power smaller exchanges in their local markets.

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Policy

Binance CEO Says Crypto Exchange Has Applied for a Singapore License

The world's top cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume is hoping to get the official green light to operate in Singapore.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao