Crypto Bank Sygnum Becomes a Unicorn Company
Sygnum, a digital asset bank based in Zug, Switzerland and Singapore, has just completed a successful funding round of $58 million, making it a new “unicorn” in the crypto industry.
Sygnum, a digital asset bank based in Zug, Switzerland and Singapore, has just completed a successful funding round of $58 million, making it a new “unicorn” in the crypto industry.
Standard Chartered has established a new entity in Luxembourg to provide cryptocurrency and digital asset custody services in the European Union, in response to the increasing demand for digital security.
More than half of US-based financial advisers indicated an increased interest in investing in crypto due to Donald Trump’s victory in the 2020 United States presidential election.
US prosecutors believe that more than one million investors from around the world lost around $40 billion in the collapse of Terra-LUNA.
Morgan Stanley is considering the addition of cryptocurrency trading to its E-Trade online brokerage platform.
The British Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reportedly been unsuccessful in removing all illegal crypto advertisements as nearly half of them are still available online.
Scams, exploits, and hacks targeting the crypto industry declined in the last months of 2021, with December seeing the lowest amount of funds stolen.

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