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Niche cryptocurrency dogecoin spiked more than 30% on Monday after Twitter CEO Elon Musk replaced the blue bird on his company's website with an image of a shiba inu, the digital coin's logo.

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The ongoing regulatory crackdown on crypto in the US could boost Hong Kong in its bid to become a new hub for the crypto industry. 

LONDON — American micro-investing platform Acorns acquired GoHenry, a digital banking startup focused on educating kids about money, for an undisclosed sum.

South Korea has been rocked by the apparent kidnap and murder of a 48-year-old woman in Gangnam, Seoul – a crime that seems to have been motivated by crypto. Four suspects have been arrested.

Mid-market investment bank Alantra is using artificial intelligence and exploring tools like ChatGPT to help its dealmakers as banks try to streamline workloads for juniors during a retention crisis.

Disclaimer: The datasets shared in the following article have been compiled from a set of online resources and do not reflect AMBCrypto’s own research on the subject.

Disclaimer: The datasets shared in the following article have been compiled from a set of online resources and do not reflect AMBCrypto’s own research on the subject.

One of the biggest talking points in the crypto space over the last few weeks has been the meteoric rise of Ripple [XRP]. Ripple Labs, which has been locked in a controversial, two-year-long lawsuit, saw the price of its native token surge 15% over the last seven days and nearly 16% from what it was a month back, data from CoinMarketCap revealed.

In a bold move, Binance [BNB] CEO Chanpeng Zhao shared a comparison of Binance.US’s trading volume with that of Coinbase on 31 March, showcasing an impressive surge in activity for the former. With such a significant uptick in trading volume, one might wonder if this newfound confidence has also extended to the BNB coin.

“I didn’t want to be a CEO that came in and just talked about doing things,” Nikhil Rathi says, reflecting on his two-and-a-half years in charge of the Financial Conduct Authority.

Binance’s [BNB] United States-based subsidiary, Binance.US, temporarily suspended Binance USD [BUSD] stablecoin pairs via One Common Billing System (OCBS) as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) investigated the exchange for alleged violations.

How valuable is blockchain?

The CCP will remove bilateral counterparty risk for settlement, financing and derivative transactions by centralising clearing, settlement, collateral and risk management arrangements, akin to traditional exchange traded assets. This will enable all participants in the ecosystem - investors, exchanges, brokers, market makers and custodians - to face the CCP rather than each other, thereby streamlining transactions, increasing capital efficiency and reducing risk for all participants.

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to five additional charges brought against him in federal court in the US.

Europe learned its lessons after the financial crisis and is now in a strong position to weather further stress in its banking system, several economists and policymakers say.

Wall Street investors believe the stock market is headed for losses after a positive first quarter, seeing cash as the best safe haven right now, according to the new CNBC Delivering Alpha investor survey.

In recent months, NatWest, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society and Santander have all placed restrictions on customers buying cryptocurrency, citing regulatory concerns and the risk of scams.In a letter to Economic Secretary to the Treasury Andrew Griffith, CryptoUK says that blanket bans and restrictions "will have the effect of fundamentally undermining the Government’s ambition to become a crypto asset hub and its mission to maximise the potential of Web3 to spur UK growth and innovation".The trade association says that government action is warranted because banks are putting in place these blanket restrictions instead of take a risk-based and case-by-case approach.The letter suggests government bringing bank and crypto CEOs together to find a "viable solution", with one option being the creation of a white list of platforms that "have engaged with the UK’s regulatory perimeter (either through AML registration or other EMI/MiFid licenses), to which transactions should be allowed to take place freely".In a separate letter to the FCA and Payment Systems Regulator, CryptoUK says that while it accepts that the regulators may not wish to intervene in the commercial decision of bank, "in this case we believe action is warranted because of the blanket approaches that have been taken".

The price of XRP has risen by 0.5% in the past 24 hours, reaching $0.535868 as the cryptocurrency market as a whole falls by 1.5%.

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