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Crypto Traders See $880M Liquidated As Bitcoin Falls To $58,500
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 - 11:06am | 343Liquidations in the crypto market exceeded $880 million on Tuesday as more than 200,000 traders liquidated across several crypto exchanges. What Happened: According to data from CoinGlass, the largest liquidation occurred on Binance where a trader lost $10.37 million on an open Litecoin (...
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Crypto Readies For Institutional Adoption: OKEx Launches CME-Like Portfolio Margin System
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 5:33pm | 252Cryptocurrency derivatives just got a step closer to replicating the experience that institutional investors have come to expect from their traditional counterparts as OKEx announced the launch of new advanced trading features. What Happened: OKEx launched portfolio margin on Monday in an...
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Fintech Focus For April 20, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021 - 7:52pm | 2247Quote To Start The Day: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Source: Thomas A. Edison One Big Thing In Fintech: Earlier this month, Bakkt, a digital-currency fintech that specializes in concurrency, rewards and...
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Fintech Focus For March 26, 2021
Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 7:45pm | 1751Quote To Start The Day: A lot of issues you see in America are really manifestations of classism. Simple shifts in individual behavior could reduce the wealth gap we have today. Source: Philip Michael One Big Thing In Fintech: According to recent reporting, the consumer trading frenzy could be...
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Fintech Focus For March 24, 2021
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 5:37pm | 1742Quote To Start The Day: Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Source: Alexander Graham Bell One Big Thing In Fintech: M1 is staking its claim as an alternative to the gamification of investing popularized by apps like Robinhood but also an alternative to traditional asset...
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Fintech Spotlight: How Businesses Can Leverage Blockchain, NFTs For Added Value
Thursday, March 4, 2021 - 8:10pm | 930In light of the blockchain, tokenization, and Web 3.0 revolution, as consumers and producers look for new ways to assign and transfer value, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have become a hot topic as of late. In understanding how blockchain can be used to create an incentive-driven, ownership...
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Fintech Focus For December 30, 2020
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 - 7:14pm | 1342Quote To Start The Day: “Crisis can be… a catalyst or can speed up changes that are on the way — it almost can serve as an accelerant.” Source: Arun Sundararajan One Big Thing In Fintech: Anthony Scaramucci's Skybridge Capital has already invested as much as $182...
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Fintech Focus For September 15, 2020
Monday, September 14, 2020 - 6:12pm | 2003Quote Of The Day: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde Fintech Movers: In August 2020, FinTech startups worldwide raised $2.80 billion worth of VC/PE investments across 220 deals. In terms of MoM trends, there was an increase of 1.4% from the $2.76 billion raised by FinTechs...
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Fintech Focus For September 1, 2020
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 6:51pm | 2023Quote Of The Day: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. - Henry David Thoreau Fintech Movers: If it were to continue compounding at that rate, bitcoin’s daily volume would exceed that of the US equity market in fewer than 4 years. - Ark Trading...
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Fintech Focus For July 6, 2020
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 10:02am | 1835Daily Perspective: More debt, more liquidity, more asset reflation. - JPMorgan Fintech Movers: Software services and online education have grown as new unicorn candidates while fintech and branded e-commerce take a back seat in the 2020 crop of new unicorns. - Crunchbase Cora preps SME products....
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Paxful, OKEx Partner Over Expanded Payment Methods
Monday, June 15, 2020 - 3:01pm | 243Paxful, a peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, formally announced a strategic partnership with OKEx over fiat-to-crypto conversions and payment capabilities. What Does It Mean? As part of the development, OKEx users will be allowed to buy bitcoin with over 160 fiat currencies, as well as...
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Cryptocurrency Exchange OKEx Launches Options Trading
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 4:53pm | 556The spot and derivatives exchange OKEx is launching options trading for digital assets later this month as part of an upgrade to its platform architecture. The product addition will help traders take advantage of volatility, hedge risk and discover prices, Enzo Villani, OKEx's...