Month: December 2017
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Innovative Securities: Another Year in Return Heaven
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The year 2017 may very well be a historical one to remember due to outstanding returns and euphory on the markets, believes Innovative Securities. The company’s analysis about 2017 reminds that although there were several uncertainties at the beginning of the year, none of them hurt the optimistic atmosphere of…
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Know-Your-Customer (KYC) for a Clean Nominee Bank Account
[box]Know-Your-Customer (KYC) rules that freeze up non-compliant banking, businesses, entities and persons. Freeze up means that transfers are blocked; no trade in capital processed.[/box] Financial institutions fear to be wittingly or unwittingly implicated when they are used to settle, facilitate, or finance international trade transactions (e.g., through processing wire transfers, providing trade finance, and issuing…
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Fortune Global Forum in Guangzhou China
The three-day 2017 Fortune Global Forum opened in Guangzhou on December 6. Chinese property developer Country Garden, a Fortune Global 500 company, became a partner of the forum, where the company’s residence-industry projects including Forest City and its several Techtowns received positive feedback from international attendees for its vertical greening, three-dimensional design and residence-industry integration as these concepts…
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Get EU residency by buying a property in Cyprus
At the moment there is a growing urgency for many South Africans to want to diversify and invest in offshore property to secure a Plan B; as the property investment offers an insurance against political instability and economic risk. Europe is by far still the preferred property investment destination as not only does the EU…
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SBI BITS and nChain Announce Strategic Partnership to Support Cryptocurrency Security and Bitcoin Cash
TOKYO, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — SBI BITS Co., Ltd., the financial technology provider company that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc. (HQ: Tokyo, Japan; Representative Director, President & CEO: Yoshitaka Kitao) and nChain, the blockchain research and development pioneer (HQ: Antigua; nChain research business in London, UK; Chairman of the Board: Stefan Matthews) announce a strategic partnership to collaborate on…
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What Gives Cryptocurrencies Their Value
The value of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, just like any other kind of money, comes fundamentally from what you can do with it. As a follow up to What Backs Bitcoin, I want to dig into that value. The idea, which comes from Austrian economist Carl Menger, is that just as a shovel’s value comes from its…
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Bitcoin Investment Trust Announces Abandonment of Bitcoin Diamond and Bytether
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Grayscale Investments, LLC, the sponsor (the “Sponsor”) of the Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTCQX: GBTC) (the “Trust”), announced that it has irrevocably abandoned (i) all of the rights to Bitcoin Diamond tokens currently held by the Trust as a result of the fork in the Bitcoin blockchain on November 24, 2017 and (ii) all…