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Germany’s largest federal bank is set to launch crypto custody services in collaboration with crypto exchange Bitpanda, targeting institutional and corporate clients. Germany’s biggest state-backed lender with over $350 billion in assets under management, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), will launch crypto…
A recent KPMG study shows a renewed enthusiasm among German investors for the cryptocurrency market. The latest uptick in investment comes after a challenging year for the sector and just as the market anticipates the upcoming Bitcoin halving event in…
German crypto investors are showing renewed optimism and confidence, a KPMG study reveals, following last year’s market challenges. KPMG recently conducted a study with BTC-ECHO that surveyed about 2,400 private crypto investors in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The findings show…
Deutsche Börse announced the launch of a new crypto spot platform for institutions in collaboration with Crypto Finance, a FINMA-regulated provider of trading it acquired in 2021. Deutsche Börse Group, a German multinational financial behemoth, has announced the launch of…
Frankfurt has emerged as the most suitable location for the situation of anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing (AML/CFT) authority headquarters in Europe.
Telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom has announced a partnership with the Fetch.ai Foundation. According to the blog post, the main goal of cooperation is to promote the development of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) in the Web3 industry. Deutsche Telekom will…
Switzerland-based crypto brokerage firm Crypto Finance has obtained four licenses from Germany’s BaFin as it plans to double down on the European market. Digital asset brokerage firm Crypto Finance owned by multinational financial giant Deutsche Börse has secured four licenses…
DZ Bank, Germany's second-largest financial institution, plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading pilot.
German authorities have confiscated approximately 50,000 Bitcoins, valued at around $2.1 billion.
Germany's Bitcoin Group is implementing improvements to its internal control system following BaFin's directive to its subsidiary futurum bank to address deficiencies in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures.
German Bundestag member Joana Cotar advocates for Bitcoin's recognition as a legal tender, aiming to balance innovation with regulatory security.
Commerzbank becomes the first major German bank to receive a cryptocurrency custody license, signaling a strategic move into digital asset services.
DZ Bank launches a blockchain-based digital asset custody platform, advancing Germany's crypto services for institutional and private clients.
The cryptocurrency custodian BitGo, backed by Goldman Sachs and Galaxy, obtained a custody license from BaFin, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, as stated in a Nov. 1 release from Finance Magnates.
Coinbase, one of the world’s largest exchanges, announced Germany as being its new regional Talent hub.
A German court rejected the appeal against the hefty sentences given to the management of Cyberbunker for hosting deep web black markets on their servers. The German Federal Court of Justice largely upheld the defendants’ convictions in the so-called “Cyberbunker…