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Comments On UK Banning Binance From Conducting Any Regulated Activity
Binance’s UK customers can’t make any GBP withdrawals anymore. And 90% of crypto businesses have reportedly withdrawn their applications to register with the FCA...
The FCA Estimates That 2.3 Million Adults Now Hold Cryptoassets
Research published by the FCA estimates that 2.3 million adults now hold cryptoassets (up from 1.9 million last year). 78% of adults have now heard of cryptoassets, up from 73% in a year.
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The FCA Extends The End Date Of Existing Cryptoasset Businesses
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is extending the end date of the Temporary Registrations Regime (TRR) for existing cryptoasset businesses from 9 July 2021...
UK Cryptocurrency Businesses Celebrate “Normalisation” As Bitcoin Exceeds $22k For The...
Milestone coincides with today's FCA approval for a Temporary Regime Registration for UK cryptoassets
Cryptocurrency businesses are celebrating a historic milestone for Bitcoin as the asset exceeded $22k...
FCA Crypto Ban Ignored 97% Of Respondents And Cherry Picked Data
An investigative report by BuyShares shows that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ignored feedback from 97% of the respondents before banning crypto ETNs and...
Market Abuse: The FCA Fines Former CEO of Trading Company Worldspreads
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a Decision Notice in respect of Conor Foley, the former Chief Executive Officer of Worldspreads, fining him...
Crypto Regulation: The UK Financial Authority Classifies Bitcoin As “Exchange Token”...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has classified true cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and ether as “exchange tokens,” which the authority maintains the not regulated status,...
The Financial Conduct Authority To Introduce Retail Investment Cap In P2P...
The UK market regulator is to limit the amount of money retail investors can allocate to peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, amid concerns of overexposure to the small, but...
Crypto Regulation: The Number of FCA Investigations Into Cryptocurrency Soared In...
FCA investigations into cryptocurrency are on the rise. It has been disclosed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that 18 companies are being investigated over...
Copy Trading Rules Clarified By FCA UK
The Financial Conduct Authority of the UK has released a clarification on the nature of copy-trading services like eToro and the kind of permissions...
FCA seeks to clarify investment advice guidelines
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is currently consulting on guidance to clarify the boundaries between different investment advice models, such as simplified, or automated,...
Social Trading and Regulation Part 5: Glossary and Resources
Glossary:
Social Trading: The process of publishing trades via a social networking platform, whether on dedicated social trading platforms such as eToro and ZuluTrade, or...
Social Trading and Regulation Part 4: What should traders do?
The wave of regulation that seems to be on its way into the copy trading sphere has many implications for everyone involved, from the...
Social Trading and Regulation Part 3: General challenges
With the prospect of regulation looming on the horizon, the social trading industry is in something of a state of limbo, unsure of how...
Social Trading and Regulation Part 2: CopyTrading and FCA
Back in mid-2012, a Q&A circular released by the European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) put copy trading firms on high alert that regulation...
Social Trading and Regulation Part 1: Copy Trading and Regulation
Social and Copy Trading - which we covered in our Guide to Copy Trading series - are becoming an an increasingly big part of the...