Barclays Teams Up With Bitcoin Firm Circle
The partnership between Barclays and social payments app Circle, which is partly run on Bitcoin, is the first time a major UK bank has got involved in the digital currency. The UK Treasury called the deal a “major milestone” in…
Dispelling the Myth That Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Know How To Break Up Big Banks
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)by Mike Conczal Bernie Sanders gave some fairly normal answers on financial reform to the New York Daily News editorial board. Someone sent it to me, and as I read it I thought, “Yes, these are…
Break Up The Big Banks – Minneapolis Fed Symposium
Richard X. Bove, Vice President Equity Research at Rafferty Capital Markets, discusses Minnesota Federal Reserve’s Symposium on “Too Big To Fail” (TBTF) banks. Break Up The Big Banks – Minneapolis Fed Symposium Absurdity Made Large The Federal Reserve Bank in…
Genesis Mining Celebrates Two Year Anniversary With Big Discount Code For Cloud Mining
Bitcoin Press Release: Currently serving over 180,000 customers, the world’s leading Bitcoin cloud mining provider Genesis Mining is celebrating its two year anniversary with generous 5% discount codes on all purchases until April 11. Two years ago, Marco Streng, Marco…
Bitcasino.io Sets Bitcoin Gambling Industry Growth Milestones
Bitcoin Press Release: Bitcasino.io is pleased to announce over €14,000,000 worth of progressive jackpots won, a 1370% turnover increase in 2015 compared to 2014, and more significant milestones reached over the past year. Bitcasino.io, the world’s first legally licensed and…
Leaked Documents Spark Interest From US Government
U.S. law enforcement is taking a keen interest in the so-called Panama Papers. The document trove, a 40-year cache of communications and files from Panama City-based international law firm Mossack Fonseca, details how various heads of state, their friends and…
Cyprus starts working week out of bailout
Cyprus has kicked off the working week standing on its own two feet. Its EU bailout has officially finished, as it bounces back from financial turmoil that tore through the heart of its banking sector. It did not require the…
IMF Greek deal far off as talks roiled by leaks
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde rebuffed Greek government calls to replace top officials overseeing the country’s bailout and said the IMF is a good distance away from an agreement that would allow for additional loans to Europe’s…
Iceland’s Pirate Party Prepared to Take Power
Birgitta Jónsdóttir is the parliamentary chair of Iceland’s Pirate Party, an international movement for digital rights and democratic reform that is the country’s largest political party. Amid protests in Reykjavik over the prime minister’s links with off-shore tax havens, all…
New Cryptocurrency, BigUp Gets Bigger
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