Browsing: Exchange News

BingX EU has secured a MiCA license from Austria’s Financial Market Authority, clearing the path for regulated cryptocurrency services across the European Economic Area.

Kraken is preparing to launch in the United Arab Emirates after its parent company, Payward, received Full Market Approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). VARA’s public register shows that Payward’s licence was issued on October 6, 2026, authorizing it to serve institutional, qualified and retail investors. Payward publicly

Coinbase has completed its integration of Deribit, launching Coinbase Global Exchange to unify spot, perpetuals, futures, and options into a single trading infrastructure linked to over $30 billion in Bitcoin options open interest.

BitGo and HashKey Cloud have formed a strategic alliance spanning custody, trading, staking, and real-world asset tokenization in Asia, supporting BitGo’s broader vision to expand its prime brokerage operations.

Payward and Singapore Gulf Bank have partnered to introduce 24/7 USD settlements for institutional digital asset markets by integrating the real-time SGB Net clearing network.

Bitget has launched GetAgent 2.0, an expanded AI-driven market intelligence tool that now analyzes cryptocurrencies, stocks, gold, oil, and on-chain metrics within a single platform.

A former CCB Asia manager was sentenced to four years in prison for accepting over $470,000 in Tether bribes to validate fraudulent letters of credit totaling more than $1.6 billion tied to the Vesttoo scandal.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has pushed back against an upcoming Wall Street Journal report blaming him and the exchange for the Senate’s rejection of the CLARITY Act, clarifying that he strongly supported the revised version of the bill.