BTCC, one of China’s biggest bitcoin exchanges, on September 14 announces that it will stop new user registration immediately, and will shut down cryptocurrency exchange business from September 30 onwards; its mining pool business will stay intact though; for now, BTCC only trades four “mainstream” cryptocurrencies, being Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and BCC. Source
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APIs combined with banking has become an important topic for banks and fintech companies; we are seeing increasing interest in APIs as every bank has to have an API or open banking strategy; since APIs often need to be built on legacy infrastructure there are often many challenges involved; the panel has a wide variety of perspectives from API service providers to banks who share how to build APIs on traditional banking technology. Source
The graphic above shares the participation of companies in various blockchain consortiums including R3, Digital Asset Holdings, Hyperledger and Ripple; the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) joined R3 last week becoming the first US regulator to join the consortium. Source