The market ended last week on a high note, with equity markets also finishing higher as investors grew more hopeful the US government would provide additional economic stimulus. Away from macro themes, the top story of the past week has to be Square spending $50 million on bitcoin (1% of their portfolio), following MicroStrategy's lead. Here's our weekly [...]
A narrative that has been at the top of market’s agenda is the unprecedented levels of volatility that market participants could be subjected to in the coming weeks ahead of the eagerly awaited elections in the US. However, as per CoinDesk's article this weekend, bitcoin’s 180-day volatility dropped to its lowest mark since November 2018, reaching a 23-month [...]
In our latest weekly roundup we take in the latest on the SushiSwap saga, Mastercard's launch of its CBDC testing platform, the EU's pledging action on stablecoins and other big reads from the past week in the industry. If you'd like to get in touch about any of our services, just send us a note, we look forward [...]
Bitcoin’s price has been on a rollercoaster ride over the past week. After briefly getting above the psychologically important $12,000 mark on Wednesday afternoon, successive waves of selling that began in Asian hours on Thursday had pushed it within a few dollars of $10,000 just 24 hours later, showing investors that it still wins in the volatility stakes. Here's [...]
London, 3 September 2020 – BCB Group, global digital financial services firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Philipp Prince as Chief Financial Officer. Reporting to CEO Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, Prince joins BCB Group during a period of rapid growth for the firm as it implements integrated business banking solutions for the world’s largest digital asset institutions [...]
Bitcoin ended last week at $11,683 – the highest weekly close since January 2018 and climbed above $12,000 early today, before dipping once more. This has opened the doors for further gains, according to some analysts. Here's our weekly roundup of the industry news and big reads. If you'd like to get in touch about any of our services, just [...]
London, 6 August 2020 – BCB Group, the global digital asset financial services group, and Circle, a leading global financial technology firm, today announced a partnership that will see BCB implementing the full range of Circle platform functionality to improve the speed, efficiency and cost of client payments and settlement across select parts of BCB Group. This furthers BCB’s [...]
Our Founder and CEO joins the Three Crypto Questions podcast to talk about the state of institutional payments infrastructure in light of the launch of BLINC, our new real-time payment network. The interview covers the current status of clearing and settlement systems in institutional crypto trading and Oliver takes us through the benefits of using [...]
It was an interesting weekend which saw bitcoin crash by more than $1,000 in a matter of minutes on Sunday, after touching its highest value this year of $12,000, although market sentiment remained seemingly unphased. Bitcoin has in fact risen 24% during over the course of the past month, its best July in eight years. Here's our weekly roundup of the [...]
Our Founder and CEO, Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, joined Circle's CEO and co-founder Jeremy Allaire last week to discuss how banking is meeting stablecoins. The episode is very relevant to some of the catalysts driving the current crypto bull market - OCC guidance and expectation of more banks getting into crypto; ETH rally fuelled by killer apps of stablecoins and [...]
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