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CBA’s Crypto Team to Help Track Down Money Launderers
Despite ongoing sentiment in traditional finance circles that crypto is the “Wild West”, Chainalysis, which recently partnered w...
ASIC Investigating Further into Gold Coast Superannuation Scam
Short of opening a special branch in Queensland, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has had an unusually busy month...
Australian Senator Says ‘Crypto is Here to Stay’
Many in the Aussie crypto world may not have heard much about Liberal Senator Jane Hume, the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services...
CBA Makes Investment in Winklevoss Twins’ Gemini in $400 Million Fund Raise
The Winklevoss twins have several claims to fame, the least of which is founding one of the more successful exchanges in the world, Gemini. ...
Outgoing RBA Policymaker Thinks CBDCs and Global Regulation Will Undermine Crypto
Dr Tony Richards, the soon-to-retire head of payments policy at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), has warned local investors they should ...
Aussie Government Includes Blockchain in its ‘Blueprint for Critical Technologies’
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the federal government’s Blueprint for Critical Technologies, a strategy aimed ...
Perth Heat Becomes World’s First Sports Team to Embrace a Bitcoin Standard
Stealing a march on its American counterparts, Australian Baseball League club the Perth Heat has become the first professional sports organ...
Queensland Distillery ‘Top Shelf’ Set to NFT Tequila Plants
Australian agave plants pre-purchasable as NFTs are to be turned into tequila and mezcal for thirsty collectors, bringing new meaning to the...
Bitcoin Surges to New All-Time High Amid Highest Inflation Levels in 31 Years
Over the past year, the US Federal Reserve has repeated the line that inflation is “transitory”, so much so that it became a mem...
AUSTRAC Issues Debanking Statement: ‘Australian Banks At Risk’
Australia’s anti-money laundering regulator AUSTRAC has issued a statement warning banks against closing accounts. The context is, jus...
ANZ Banking Chief on Crypto: ‘There is a Weight of Money You Can’t Ignore’
Between 2009 and early 2020, crypto and traditional finance operated in parallel universes. Then in March 2020, everything changed. Crypto a...
Australian Crypto ETF Passes $40 Million in First Day of Trading
BetaShares’ crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) debuted this week, smashing Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) trading records on its ...