Commerzbank and Volks- und Raiffeisenbank – a German universal bank and brand of cooperative banks respectively – have started developing concepts to enable customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – a German liberal-conservative newspaper – revealed the news on Monday. A spokesperson for Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken said the group is “pushing ahead”...Read More
German Savings Banks Association – a network of over 400 savings banks throughout Germany – may allow customers to start trading cryptocurrencies from their accounts in 2022. As the market leader among Germany’s financial institutions, the service could give easy crypto access to more than 50 million people. Adopting Crypto Services As reported by the...Read More
Union Investment – the investment arm of the DZ bank group – takes another small step towards offering crypto investment services to private investors. They will make Bitcoin a small percentage of some of their funds. Union Invest’s Experimentation With Crypto As reported to Bloomberg news, portfolio manager David Barthe said that the company was...Read More
According to a new law coming into effect next week, some German investment funds will be able to hold up to 20% in digital assets. This comes amid growing demand from various institutions towards the industry. Germany’s Next Crypto Move As per a Bloomberg report from July 30th, Spezialfonds – German investment funds with fixed...Read More
By partnering with the German online retail platform comdirect, 21Shares AG will enable investors to purchase BTC and other digital assets for their savings accounts. Crypto as a Saving Option 21Shares AG, the Swiss-based investment product issuer, has partnered with the large German online brokerage – comdirect – to bring its cryptocurrency exchange-traded products, or ETPs,...Read More
The story between Dogecoin and Tesla has a new, somewhat unexpected development coming from Europe. A German taxi company that has only Tesla cars has enabled its customers to use DOGE to pay for their rides. CryptoPotato reached out to the firm, called Tesla Taxi Aschaffenburg, to check out why it went that doggy road,...Read More
Cryptocurrency developments in Europe are emerging left and right as four issuers received approvals to list exchange-traded products on different exchanges, including in Paris and Amsterdam for the first time. Additionally, Germany’s regulated exchange for crypto assets released a mobile trading app for Android and iOS users. Four Issuers Launched Crypto ETPs in Europe With...Read More
WisdomTree Investments, a NY-based fund manager, has launched a physically-backed Ethereum ETP on two European stock exchanges through its local subsidiaries. This becomes the organization’s second crypto-related ETP released in the past month, after an exchange-traded product following the performance of Bitcoin. WisdomTree’s ETH ETP Live in Europe Headquartered in New York, WisdomTree Investments is...Read More
Germany’s Financial Supervisory Authority is investigating Binance for its offering of tokenized shares and is already holding a preliminary opinion that doesn’t look too encouraging for the world’s leading crypto exchange. According to a legal opinion published on its official website, the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht —or simply BaFin— considers that Binance would be violating securities...Read More
Germany’s leading stock exchange, Deutsche Boerse AG, plans to delist COIN – the shares of the largest American cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase. The organization justified its decision with wrongfully inserted reference data, which has to be resolved before COIN is relisted. Reuters reported earlier today Deutsche Boerse’s intentions to remove the shares of Coinbase from its...Read More
The firm, which specializes in investment, research, and development in the cannabis sector, said that their industry has had very positive experiences with cryptocurrencies as a “simple and digital means of payment.” Corporations Buying Bitcoin Seems To Be Trendy It seems like only yesterday Elon Musk made the SEC filing, laying out how his company...Read More
Hauck & Aufhäuser, one of the oldest German banks is making a play for the emerging cryptocurrency space with the launch of a crypto fund early next year. Commercial banks in the country continue to show a significant appetite for virtual currencies on the back of a firm but a favorable regulatory mandate from government...Read More
Members of European Union have decided to make use of distributed ledger technology and adopt crypto-assets such as stablecoins, by 2024, in order to introduce new regulations to make cross-border payments cheaper and quicker according to two EU documents received by Reuters today. According to the report, this move from the European Commission was a...Read More
After the launch of short Bitcoin (SBTC) ETP on Boerse Stuttgart, Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, the crypto trading product is now available on Xetra. This is a significant breakthrough for 21 Shares, which has already tasted success with eleven other institutional-grade crypto exchange-traded products. Short Bitcoin ETP Gets Listed on Deutsche Xetra Germany is Europe’s...Read More
Germany’s financial regulator has come down hard on Bitcoin ATMs that are operating in the country without a license. BaFin Clampdown on Unlicensed Bitcoin ATMs According to a report by Handelsblatt, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) targeted operators of Bitcoin ATMs that were working in the country illegally. Only BTC machines with a...Read More
By working together with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), German law enforcement agencies have seized nearly $30 million worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash from two men allegedly running a large pirate streaming website called Movie2K. Movie2K’s Backstory The pirate streaming website began operating in 2008 and ran until 2013. In that timeframe,...Read More
Bitcoin automated teller machines (BATMs) will become the next target for regulators, as world governments tighten screws on money laundering. According to Ciphertrace CTO John Jeffries, crypto-cash machines will attract “greater…regulatory focus” in a bid to rein-in alleged cross-border illicit financial transfers. Jeffries urged “the need for more uniform regulatory enforcement and compliance” as governments...Read More
As world governments push through legislation to levy taxes on capital gains from bitcoin (BTC) transactions, seeking to earn more from an asset class that frowns on regulatory oversight, there are still a few countries that remain pro-crypto, allowing investors to buy, sell or hold digital assets at zero taxes. Circumstances vary, but the real...Read More
With the recent coronavirus spread and its overall effect on the global economy, some people believe the powers that be are preparing a financial reset. During these times, a number of bitcoiners think a bitcoin-induced form of fiat currency demonetization will take place, otherwise known as ‘hyperbitcoinization.’ However, a few speculators believe digital assets in...Read More
There are still many questions as to how different countries and governments perceive Bitcoin and other crypto assets. In Germany, it would appear that the interest in blockchain and crypto assets continues to rise. Following the recent market turmoil, interest in Bitcoin has seemingly dropped off significantly all over the world. Bitcoin is Thriving in...Read More
This week has been somewhat positive for the cryptocurrency community. Starting with Bitcoin’s price, which began trading at $8,600 but, since then, it has risen to the current stance of above $9,000. Following its increase, Bitcoin is starting to escape the correlation it recently demonstrated with the traditional financial world markets. As the coronavirus outbreak...Read More
The American digital asset trust and security company, BitGo, expands its services to Europe. The company is opening two new custodial entities in Switzerland and Germany. BitGo Goes To Europe Reported earlier today, the popular U.S.-based digital asset management company is expanding its presence in Europe. With two new custodial entities in Germany and Switzerland,...Read More
Negative rates are becoming exceedingly popular among central and local banks around the world, and the trend extends in Germany with the start of 2020. Amid this, Bitcoin’s pre-programmed inflation rate raises the question if it could serve as a full-on alternative. Simply put, having negative rates means that instead of receiving interest income on...Read More
The slightly negative attention from institutions towards Facebook’s Libra continues with the German Central Bank’s President Jens Weidmann, saying that they have to slow it down with further regulations. He also notes that banks must improve their payment systems and the E.U. should be more considerate regarding launching e-euro. Weidmann On Digital Euro Ever since...Read More
2019 was a crazy year for cryptocurrency enthusiasts and a number of interesting events happened throughout the last 12 months. It’s hard to keep track of the day-to-day activities taking place within the cryptosphere and there may be a few incidents some of our readers missed. At news.Bitcoin.com we took the opportunity to scan our...Read More
While dozens of the world’s economic leaders participate in extreme monetary easing policy, central banks have also been hoarding gold. Central banks accumulated over 668 tons in gold purchases this year, which is more than 2018’s record numbers. In fact, the key drivers in gold demand this year stemmed from central bank purchases, most of...Read More
Reports have emerged depicting long lines in front of a physical gold sales location in Germany, in view of pending legislation which would once again lower the anonymous purchase limit, this time from €10,000 to €2,000. The last drop happened in 2017 when the limit was set at €15,000. A draft bill from the German...Read More
Germany’s second-largest stock exchange and a major financial services group in Japan have partnered to expand their crypto operations in Europe and Asia. Boerse Stuttgart recently launched its crypto trading platform while SBI has been expanding its crypto business operations for several years. Also read: Regulatory Roundup: Crypto ‘Inevitable’ in India, China Rankings, NY Streamlines...Read More
Germany remains a very interesting region when it comes to cryptocurrencies. Local officials are seemingly intent on regulating this industry early next year. Given the new regulations introduced in the EU, that doesn’t come as too much of a surprise either. More Crypto Problems in Germany Due to these guidelines, the German Banking Act and...Read More
The Amended Directive to the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive will go into force in Germany on January 1, 2020. Some of the key changes affect how the German Banking Act and Payment Supervision Services Act relate to crypto. Crypto-Assets Are Now Financial Instruments The new law defines crypto-assets in a somewhat unwieldy manner: digital representation...Read More
