February 2020

Justin Sun finally had his $4.5 million charity dinner with Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett last month.

The Chinese government’s pledge to ensure that the economy remains stable in the fall out of the Coronavirus outbreak there has helped to push the Aussie Dollar higher for the fourth consecutive day.

German factory orders fell unexpectedly signaling that the recession that made the economic growth to hit its lowest level since 2013 is far from over.

Vindhu Singh is the firm’s first chief risk officer, and will report to Head of Eris Clearing Liz James.

Lael Brainard said in a speech that the Fed is looking at digital ledger use cases including for a possible central bank digital currency.

Clear claims it can reduce friction in global trade that amounts to $140 billion every year.

The heads of six major central banks will hold their first meeting on potentially developing their own digital currencies in April, Nikkei says.

Bitcoin’s rally has picked up in the last 24 hours, setting the stage for a test of $10,000. At the same time, a number of alternative cryptos are outperforming even bitcoin.

The Seychelles-based exchange aims to provide retail crypto investors with futures, options, callable bull/bear contracts, warrant contracts and fixed coupon notes, which are traditionally only available to institutional clients.

The Chinese government announced on Thursday that it will cut tariffs against more than 1700 US goods in half, in order to comply with what was agreed in “phase 1” of the trade deal.