Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 10 months ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s expected approval of bitcoin exchange-traded funds and Nigeria’s lifting of a directive which excluded the crypto industry from the banking ecosystem are expected to help revive African users&...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
About 73 applicants who are seeking a license to offer crypto products in South Africa are already registered as accountable institutions with the Financial Intelligence Centre, an executive at the crypto exchange Luno has said. According to the Luno...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Johann Steynberg, the imprisoned CEO of Mirror Trading International, a South African Bitcoin scam entity, is allegedly receiving preferential treatment in a Brazilian prison. The General Directorate of Penitentiary Administration (DGAP) has confirme...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Farzam Ehsani, the founder and CEO of the South African crypto exchange Valr, has stated that institutional traders account for the bulk of the African continent’s crypto trading volumes. To support this point, Ehsani referred to Valr’s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 11 months ago
Trezor has officially launched its educational program in Africa in addition to funding Bitcoineta, a West African Bitcoin awareness campaign, and...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 11 months ago
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority reviewed 128 applications from crypto service asset providers. South Africa’s principal...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Only five percent of surveyed South African crypto-asset financial service providers (FSPs) are generating revenue between $8 million and $10 million. The Financial Sector Conduct Authority study found that many of the crypto asset FSPs “earn t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Two South African crypto platforms and an Austria-based digital asset platform have joined forces to launch a new alternative investment platform called Altify. The goal of the new outfit is to enable South African investors, particularly the younger...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 11 months ago
In a move toward bridging traditional financial systems with the burgeoning world of Bitcoin, TBD, a branch of Block specializing in decentralized technology, unveiled its open source protocol, tbDEX. The protocol, designed to foster trust and liquid...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 11 months ago
In a move toward bridging traditional financial systems with the burgeoning world of Bitcoin, TBD, a branch of Block specializing in decentralized technology, unveiled its open source protocol, tbDEX. The protocol, designed to foster trust and liquid...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 11 months ago
The CEO and co-founder of neobank Canza Finance claims that utilizing Baki for foreign exchange trades in Africa creates a hub for African busines...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 11 months ago
In recent years, the African continent has been at the forefront of a financial revolution marked by the exponential growth of mobile money. This growth has paved the way for a series of dynamic partnerships between Mobile Network Operators, cryptocu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
A new product offering recently launched by Stitch, a South African payment service provider, now enables customers to settle transactions with crypto. According to Stitch, this new functionality makes it possible for customers to pay with bitcoin (B...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 11 months ago
Dubai, UAE, November 23rd, 2023, Chainwire
Bitget, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, has launched Arabic lingual support for over eleven Middle-Eastern and North African countries accessible on its mobile application...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Yellow Card, the Africa-focused crypto exchange, recently won the African financial industry’s 2023 “Disrupter of the Year” award. The crypto exchange’s CEO described the award as a recognition of Yellow Card’s role in &...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
An Africa-focused remittances firm, Zazuu, has become the latest fintech startup to close shop after it failed to raise extra funding. Zazuu and other African fintechs’ funding problems are said to be linked to the collapse of Silicon Valley Ba...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
South Africa is the only African country to join the group of countries that have agreed to implement the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework. According to the South African Revenue Collector, the reporting framework is expected to improve its “ab...