Digital Asset

Prnewswire | September 11, 2018

Today marks the launch of EQI Bank , the world's first licenced and regulated bank for national currencies, crypto and digital assets. For the first time, customers can manage traditional and crypto assets within a single banking relationship, while accessing a comprehensive suite of services including trading, custody, lending, clearing and settlement. Founded by former HSBC, Credit Suisse, Bank of New York and UBS bankers, EQIBank holds a full, unrestricted offshore banking license in CARI...

CoinDesk | March 14, 2019

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has confirmed it’s building a digital assets platform that it expects to go live next year. Saying it is “ready for digital tranformation,” the SET announced Wednesday that it will work “closely and collectively” with all stakeholders in the country’s capital market to build a new ecosystem that would support digital assets. Pakorn Peetathawatchai, president of the SET, said that the exchange’s three-year strategic pl...

PayPal | January 16, 2020

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced that it processed a record $10.3 billion in donations to charities around the world in 2019, and more than $1 billion in the month of December alone, as mobile and other digital channels continue to change how donors engage with nonprofit organizations. Twenty-one percent of all donations processed by PayPal in 2019 were made through mobile devices. "Our efforts to drive social impact and create value for all of our stakeholders continue ...

BlackRock | January 15, 2020

BlackRock Inc.'s assets scaled $7 trillion for the first time, putting the spotlight on the world's largest money manager's growing reach. The investment giant took in $128.8 billion in net new money in the fourth quarter of 2019, where exchange-traded funds drew big inflows. That is up from the $49.8 billion in net flows in the year-ago period. BlackRock's quarterly net profits rose 40 percent to $1.3 billion. The company's fourth-quarter earnings of $8.29 a share exceeded W...