Hong Kong Financial News

22.02 / 09:25

business Blockchain Investments Crypto trading firm Amber valued at $3B after big Singaporean investment

Crypto finance service provider Amber has landed a valuation of $3 billion following a funding round led by Singaporean state-owned investment firm Temasek Holdings.

22.02 / 03:19

UPS Ethereum Lowe's Bitcoin Solana: Can social euphoria alone do the trick for SOL

Even though the market saw a green signal, Bitcoin and many other altcoins didn’t register skyrocketing rallies, unlike Solana. In fact, at one point, SOL was up by 12.37% from the lows of 20 February.

21.02 / 16:03

COST UPS Immunic Inflation Creeps Into Asia—‘My Salary Is the Same, but Everything Is More Expensive’

HONG KONG—Early warning signs of inflation are appearing in some parts of Asia, as higher energy and food prices start to bite in countries that recently seemed immune to cost pressures.

19.02 / 19:21

Blockchain Digital Platform Future HKD.com Aims to Shape Thriving Web3.0 Future through Strategic Investment in Blockchain.News

Hong Kong, 18 FEB 2022- One of the most reputable Digital Asset Exchange in Hong Kong- HKD.com (Hong Kong Digital Asset Exchange) announced the acquisition of half of Blockchain.News Company’s shares, a well-known international blockchain news media.

19.02 / 12:01

UPS IPO Platform Remark Some U.S.-listed Chinese stocks will need Beijing's approval to stay public in other overseas markets

BEIJING — If U.S. regulation forces Chinese companies to delist from New York, new rules from Beijing further complicates their path to raising money in public markets abroad.

18.02 / 13:05

Provident ETF NASDAQ Stock indices CSOP to List First Metaverse Concept ETF on HKEX

CSOP Asset Management Limited (CSOP) is set to launch Hong Kong’s first Metaverse exchange-traded fund (ETF) next Monday, February 21, according to the company’s disclosure document.

17.02 / 05:21

Blockchain Twitter Platform Software AscendEX Lists Synchrony, SCY

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17.02 / 05:09

Metaverse The Sandbox Decentraland play Metaverse: How to play the next big theme in crypto world?

metaverse by opening 'Onyx lounge', which is a virtual lounge in the blockchain-based world of Decentraland. The bank has also released a paper exploring how businesses can find opportunities in the metaverse, which has made tokens in the segment move higher. Metaverse is a digital avatar-based universe. It is a virtual reality world where users can interact, play games and experience things or activities as they would in the real world.

16.02 / 21:55

business Investments Europe Bitcoin International Fidelity International launches Bitcoin ETP on Deutsche Boerse

Major financial services firm Fidelity International will be listing a Bitcoin exchange-traded product on the SIX Swiss Exchange and Germany’s Xetra digital stock exchange.

16.02 / 18:05

Blockchain Twitter Netflix Bitcoin Making sense of the Bitfinex Bitcoin billions

It’s the Netflix script that wrote itself. A story so outlandish, it’s stunned the crypto community; an industry accustomed to apparent suicides in Spanish jail cells and nonfungible token auctions for dead rappers.

16.02 / 16:22

business Binance regulation Deal Financial Binance's Paysafe deal worries UK financial watchdog

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the top financial authority in the United Kingdom, has raised concerns over Binance’s recent partnership with Paysafe, a retail payment processor.

16.02 / 14:22

business Blockchain Report Bitcoin Financial 61% of Luxembourg financial players to embark on crypto journey in 2022: PwC

In a bullish report released by professional services firm PwC Luxembourg, 61% of 123 Luxembourg-based financial players are “embarking or planning to embark on a crypto journey.”

16.02 / 10:49

Manufacturing boost China Inflation Eases as Economy Could Use a Boost

HONG KONG—Inflationary pressure in China continued to ease in January, offering room for Beijing to stimulate growth while more major economies are looking to tighten policy to curb rising prices.

15.02 / 22:51

business Adoption Scams Customer OpenSea customer service migrating from Discord to Metalink to more adequately protect its community

On Tuesday, nonfungible token, or NFT, platform OpenSea launched a server on Metalink to give the verified owners of its collections a direct channel for support, feedback and updates. In addition, OpenSea said it would no longer offer customer support over Discord DMs. Metalink is a collaboration app for NFT communities that offers users a place to view their collection's value and monitor its associated real-time transaction feed. In addition, channels hosted on Metalink are token-gated, meaning that proof of ownership of an NFT or social token is required to access the content.

13.02 / 09:43

cryptocurrency CEO Platform Crypto Exchange Fried Sam Sam Bankman-Fried, 29, Heads Crypto Exchange Worth Billions

Sam Bankman-Fried is the co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX

11.02 / 22:03

Ethereum interview YouTube Coding Crypto Stories: Gavin Wood discusses why he decided to code Ethereum

Among the original founding fathers of Ethereum (ETH) is Gavin Wood, who joined a group led by Vitalik Buterin that set out to build Bitcoin's competition. Wood is the computer scientist who wrote the first smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain back in 2014. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Wood admitted that at the time, he just needed a job.

10.02 / 16:11

Binance Digital Forbes stake Binance, led by the world’s richest crypto billionaire, is taking a $200 million stake in Forbes

Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned.

09.02 / 21:42

Blockchain UPS BLOCK Google Cardano achieves new milestone as total transaction count crosses 30 million mark

Cardano, one of the most promising ecosystems within the crypto community continued to make developments. Fair to say, Cardano was off to a flying start to February 2022.

09.02 / 16:05

Provident Digital Parke Pampers Global Pets World: A World First Experience for Pet Owners in the Real World and the Metaverse!

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09.02 / 04:21

cryptocurrency regulation Hong Kong Needs to Respond to Crypto Market Changes with New Rules - Treasury Chief

Hong Kong regulators and senior members of the government have spoken about their willingness of introducing new rules to police the crypto sector, with a new set of guidelines already formulated for crypto brokerages.

06.02 / 16:45

FIVE world economy NOT China’s Slowdown to Limit Global Growth but Not Undermine World Economy

HONG KONG—A prolonged slowdown in China’s economic growth could hurt some multinational companies and commodity producers for years to come, casting a shadow over the global recovery from the pandemic—but likely not derailing it entirely.

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