Australia

Gemini Slashes Jobs and Exits Europe, UK and Australia to Streamline Operations

Publicly traded crypto exchange Gemini has announced a major restructuring that will cut roughly 25 % of its global workforce — about…

4 weeks ago

Reserve Bank of Australia Plans Wholesale CBDC Trials on Public and Private DLTs

Project Acacia is an Australian initiative to support the settlement of tokenized transactions using stablecoins, tokenized deposits or a pilot…

8 months ago

Visa, Chainlink Successfully Complete CBDC, Stablecoin Swap Between Hong Kong, Australia

Visa and Chainlink have completed a key milestone in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) e-HKD+ Pilot Programme, successfully testing a cross-border blockchain transaction…

9 months ago

SEC Drops Investigation into Australian Crypto Firm Immutable as Regulatory Shift Continues

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed yet another investigation into a crypto firm, this time an investigation it…

12 months ago

Australia Plans Crypto Regulations Targeting Custody, Stablecoin Issuance

Australia’s Treasury published high level plans for the regulation of the digital assets sector. It’s less concerned about the issuance of…

12 months ago

Australia Slaps Binance with Lawsuit Alleging it Let Retail Customers Trade Risky Derivatives

Retail customers of Binance in Australia weren’t shielded by consumer protections for risky derivatives that led to big losses, regulators…

1 year ago

Crypto Scammers Hijack Major Australian News Broadcaster’s YouTube

The YouTube news channel of a major Australian broadcaster, the Seven Network, was hijacked by crypto scammers — showing videos…

2 years ago

VanEck to Launch First Bitcoin ETF on Australian Securities Exchange

Global investment firm VanEck said it has received regulatory approval to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Australian Securities Exchange…

2 years ago

Bitcoin ETFs Expected to Launch on Australia’s ASX Exchange in 2024

Australia's largest securities exchange, ASX, is expected to approve spot Bitcoin ETFs this year, according to a Bloomberg report. Sources familiar with the…

2 years ago

Australian Consortium Explores Tokenizing Money Markets & Debt

Last year, as part of Australia’s central bank digital cy (CBDC) pilots, one of the tests involved using the CBDC…

2 years ago