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What Does Liquidation Mean and How to Avoid It? – Yahoo Finance

The crypto market’s high volatility means liquidations are a common occurrence. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are renowned for being high-risk investments prone to extreme price swings. But while this volatility makes them a concern for regulators, it also presents an opportunity for investors to generate significant profits, particularly when compared to traditional asset classes like […]

Polkadot (DOT) price rallies 100% and derivatives data points to more upside – Cointelegraph

Polkadot (DOT) is a blockchain project designed to interconnect sub-chains called parallel chains or parachains. Each application-specific chain built within Polkadot uses the Substrate modular framework, and this is meant to ease the development process. The project has been at the center of developers’ and investors’ attention for most of 2021, but the sharp market-wide […]

CFTC settles AML violations with cryptocurrency derivatives platform – Lexology

On August 10, the CFTC announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against several companies (defendants) charged with operating an unregistered cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform. As previously covered by InfoBytes, in October 2020, the CFTC announced that it filed a complaint against five entities and […]

Derivatives Losses Punch Massive Hole in HMM Bottom Line – gcaptain.com

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – HMM posted a net profit of $310m for the first six months of the year, but its bottom-line result would have been substantially better without a $1.7bn loss from derivatives transactions. The South Korean carrier’s revenues almost doubled, compared with H1 20, to $4.56bn, from an 8.4% increase in carryings of […]

‘Floodgates’ open on mutual funds converting into ETFs – Yahoo Finance

Investor hunger for more exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is catching the attention of asset managers now eager to convert their mutual funds. [Read: Yahoo U: What are ETFs?] On Wednesday, JPMorgan Asset Management announced plans to convert about $10 billion in U.S. mutual funds into ETFs, the latest in a trend that could be set to […]

Biden Said to Pick Behnam as Top U.S. Derivatives Regulator – Yahoo Finance

(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden plans to name Rostin Behnam to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees much of the $582 trillion global derivatives market including cryptocurrency trading, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The White House recently selected Behnam, who’s been leading the agency on an interim basis since […]

Biden Said to Pick Behnam as Top US Derivatives Regulator (1) – Bloomberg Law

President Joe Biden plans to name Rostin Behnam to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees much of the $582 trillion global derivatives market including cryptocurrency trading, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The White House recently selected Behnam, who’s been leading the agency on an interim basis since January, according […]

Long way to go to close the huge global gender finance gap – DW (English)

For an exclusively digital bank, TymeBank has an unusually personal approach for finding new customers. The South African lender was launched in 2015 and does not have physical branches. However, it does operate a national network of kiosks in grocery stores and supermarkets. The aim is to find people who may want to open a […]