Highlighting what went right, and what went wrong, in this week’s crypto news analysis.

Blink and you miss a lot in this industry. Here’s what happened last week that should be on your radar:

Apple said no to crypto, but do you trust them? Paypal said sayonara to Libra, which begs the question, are they thinking they can do the same thing better and more quickly? Coinbase Pro is about to increase their fees, shortly after Clearbank integration reinstates UK customers access to the faster payments scheme on the platform. They also launched the crypto rating council, amid some controversy, along with Kraken, Bitrex, Anchorage, and others. Galaxy Digital is getting busy on Bakkt (maybe the only ones?). And Grams are coming…. stay tuned for more on that one later today

Below is our weekly roundup of industry and coin specific news. If you’d like to get in touch with us about any of our products or services, we look forward to hearing from you. Just send us a note.

Latest Industry News

New regs for crypto fund managers in HK

• The SFC advised managers to have sufficient human and technical resources for the proper performance of duties as well as to adopt risk management and compliance policies, as well as policies for AML and CFT
• They are further required to maintain liquid capital of a minimum of 3 million Hong Kong dollars and its variable required liquid capital

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A new crypto-friendly bank in Malta

• The bank’s leading investors include the crypto exchange Binance (also based in Malta), the hedge fund Polychain Capital and the Czech firm Carduus Asset Management
• Founders Bank planned to raise capital with equity tokens. That plan was quickly shelved in order to avoid complications during the licensing process

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Regulator Roundup

• It’s that time again. A lot can change in one month, which is why we round up everything that’s happening in the world of crypto regulation
• This month there are another 180+ stories for you to be aware of, and even one job vacancy if you’re in NYC and fancy becoming a regulator!

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Latest Coin News

BTC

• Price analysis
• SEC: If Bitcoin was a security, it would ‘raise
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• Fundstrat’s
• on current barriers to BTC for institutions

ETH

• Price analysis
• Ethereum scaling network
• raises $17.1m
• IKEA tests ethereum based

XRP

• Price analysis
• XRP investment arm acquires Icelandic firm
• Monetisation platform
• now supports XRP

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