In a shocking turn of events, a middle-aged Swedish couple fell victim to a violent home invasion orchestrated by a gang of masked men determined to steal their Bitcoin holdings. This incident, which unfolded earlier this week in the town of Rönninge, south of Stockholm, has highlighted the alarming trend of cryptocurrency-related robberies in Sweden....Read More
The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority registered the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – Binance – as a financial institution for management and trading in virtual currency in the Scandinavian country. This is the seventh EU nation where the platform has received such a license, with the previous six being Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Cyprus, and Lithuania....Read More
San Francisco-based blockchain firm, Ripple, announced its first On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) customers in France and Sweden. According to the company, the European market is ripe for disruption with RippleNet-powered ODL. The main aim of the partnerships is to facilitate real-time payments across borders utilizing by Ripple’s financial technology – RippleNet – across the two regions....Read More
CBDCs are an investment to protect the fiat-based monetary system. Cash is on its way out, and its share as a medium of payment will significantly reduce in the coming years. For central banks to stay up to date with modern developments and public demands, they must develop CBDCs. These remarks were made by Cecilia...Read More
Riksbank – the central bank of Sweden – has joined a chorus of other monetary authorities in rejecting Bitcoin’s status as “currency”. It argues that cryptocurrencies are poor at serving the three primary roles of money, and more closely resemble assets instead. The Litmus Test for Money As Riksbank explained in a Twitter thread, proper...Read More
Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA), ’Finansinspektionen’, has fined Swedbank a record sum of 4 billion Swedish krona ($386M) for breaching anti-money laundering regulations on a large scale. Around $5.8 billion had been funneled between suspected accounts in Swedbank and Danske Bank in the Baltics, the latter already fined large amounts for previous money-laundering activities. Also...Read More
Natcasinon is a Swedish casino guide website. This site is intended to help Sweedish casino players in finding their best online casino. Owners of the site are pro players, and now they are sharing their experience with all. For all the Swedish players, it is essential to play on a Swedish licensed website.For those who...Read More
In this regulatory roundup, we cover a positive crypto story in India, China’s year-end rankings, and the European Central Bank entering the stablecoin race. We also cover the New York regulator’s proposed Bitlicense revision — the first in five years — and several other notable regulatory developments in the crypto space. Also read: Regulatory Roundup...Read More
Open source funding is a challenging thing in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, which is why well placed grants can make a huge difference. This is something that the Square Crypto initiative knows and how it decided to give a grant to one talented developer.As the crypto news show, the developer who is working full time on...Read More
It seems that not a day goes by without another central bank jumping on the crypto train. Yesterday it was South Korea, today it is Sweden as plans to roll out the crypto krona gather pace. e-Krona Pilot Partnership Sweden’s central bank is poised to sign a deal with multinational professional services company Accenture to...Read More
Around half of European countries, over 20, now have 0% interest rates and a few are already in negative territory. Ukraine, which has the highest benchmark interest rate on the continent, has just reduced it again, for the fifth time this year. The race between central banks to cut rates, when there is inflation, has...Read More
On December 10, Switzerland-based firm Amun AG announced the company’s base prospectus has been approved by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (SFSA). The ETP provider said it has extensive plans to expand its digital asset ETPs throughout Europe, while Sweden shows “strong demand” for these products. Also read: Wisdomtree’s Physically Backed Bitcoin ETP Goes Live...Read More
Sub-zero interest rates have become the norm in some countries, especially in Europe. Nordic nations such as Sweden and Denmark have been in negative territory for a while and a growing number of banks in the region are now charging depositors for keeping their money. Saving in fiat right now, unlike cryptocurrencies lately, leads to...Read More
