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| UPDATE 1-Slovenian court cancels Swiss franc loan due to currency risks LJUBLJANA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A court in Slovenia has cancelled a Swiss franc real-estate loan because the high risks of such a currency deal were not explained, the borrower's lawyer said on Friday. The decision puts as much as 461 million euros of loans held by Slovenian banks at risk and may ...
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| The US dollar's slide and what lies ahead The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of major currencies, recently fell to a three-year low. Moves by central banks around the world toward monetary policy normalization, increased political uncertainty in the United States and the dearth of volatility across markets have hurt ...
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| HSBC to pay £73m to settle currency rigging probe Banking giant HSBC will pay 101.5 million US dollars (£73 million) to US authorities to settle a criminal investigation into currency rigging. Europe's biggest bank has entered a three-year deferred prosecution agreement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in which it will stomach a 63.1 million US ...
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| CFTC to Tighten How It Reviews Bitcoin-Related Product Launches Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo said that he had asked his staff to craft a "heightened review" process for virtual-currency derivatives such as bitcoin futures, and laid out an eight-point checklist for regulators to follow when exchanges launch a new product.
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| Bitcoin investors in India served income tax notices as trading hits $3.5 billion The tax department has asked people dealing in bitcoin and other virtual currencies such as ethereum and ripple to pay tax on capital gains. They have also asked for details about their total holdings and the source of funds in the tax notice seen by Reuters. "We found that investors were not reflecting it ...
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| Forget Viruses or Spyware—Your Biggest Cyberthreat Is Greedy Cryptocurrency Miners Bitcoin and many of its newer rivals are given as rewards for performing the computationally demanding cryptographic operations that underpin the transaction records of the currencies—a process known as mining. Steal someone's computing power by embedding such code in websites or software, ...
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| VISA Waging War Against Bitcoin By Rejecting It As Currency Bitcoin was originally created and intended as a replacement for fiat currency in transactions. Unlike fiat currency, the digital currency is not issued by anyone but rather "mind" by powerful computers which solve certain algorithms. The miners then write those transactions to the online blockchain ledger, ...
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| Would Bitcoin By Another Name Smell As Sweet? William Shakespeare wrote "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet' but I wonder if that is true of Bitcoin and Crypto Currencies in general? Shakespeare thinks that it doesn't matter, but I can't help but wonder if the name has had more to do with its digital money's meteoric rise than we'd like to ...
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| UPDATE 1-Weaker dollar adds to optimism over US earnings U.S. multinationals, especially energy and technology companies that have a significant portion of their sales overseas, could benefit the most from the currency effect, while other sectors like telecommunications benefit less. The greenback was headed for its fifth week of losses on Friday. The U.S. dollar ...
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