Senior manager in EY's Financial Services Advisory team to join Fintech-related panel discussion at PICANTE TECH Conference Europe 2019.

It seems that there are some financial advisors out there who seem to know the client's needs before they do. Wondering how is this possible? Well, there's a good chance that software is part of the reason and that software comes in the form of Fintech.

The CEO of the American brokerage company TD Ameritrade Tim Hockey said that Bitcoin has become much more interesting for traders.

"Customers often ask about Bitcoin, but in the US there are significant regulatory obstacles in order to provide the customer with the opportunity to trade cryptocurrencies. We would be glad to participate in this, but we need to make sure that risks for our clients and ourselves are insignificant," said Hockey in an interview.

According to the CEO of Pantera Capital investment company Dan Morehead, by the end of the year the rate of the first cryptocurrency could reach $ 42,000.

Researchers at LongHash found that the highest volatility in cryptocurrency markets is at 1 am UTC. To conduct the study, analysts used data from the Coinbase exchange, calculating the number of daily peaks and lows in each hour and comparing with the indicators for the rest of the hours of the day. 

The well-known cryptocurrency skeptic Nouriel Roubini ("Dr.DOOM") said that cryptocurrency exchanges "are directly involved in criminal activity," especially he singled out the BitMEX platform.

In his report, Nouriel Roubini emphasized that it was a fraud to offer users a trade with a leverage of up to 100, collect high commissions and "drain funds from users into a kind of "liquidation fund".

It seems clear that this year 2019 is the year of the maturation of the projects. The market is incorporating new proposals, and only the most innovative ones will remain in the long term. In Ecom, they know it, and for that reason, they bring us their most novel proposals that are in full development.

Bank of England Chairman Mark Carney stressed that society needs to recognize the problems that Facebook is trying to solve with the help of the Libra project.

"It's way too expensive to do domestic payments. It's way too slow, and that hurts consumers and businesses. It stifles innovation, and it's far too expensive to send money cross-border, and there are huge financial inclusion issues related to that and costs related to that. So, while we are trying to address all these issues, we have to absolutely acknowledge the problem that they're trying to solve. And if it's not this, we'd better have some answers for what else it is," Carney said at a press conference.

CoVEX has been emerging as the most comprehensive and easy to use platform for buying a cryptocurrency and using all modern trading services. CoVEX is not just popular for buying, selling, trading but CoVEX aims to become one-stop platform for crypto-exchange with the highest maintain security, user-friendly with reduced downtimes. CoVEX offers the first all in one crypto cryptocurrency exchange platform that incorporates all the features that you would want to see on an exchange platform.

As many of you know, Crypto Market Ads (CMA) project had IEO on IDAX.pro exchange recently. First time it was canceled by IDAX.pro because we do not agreed on their terms (they called us hours before IEO, we have voice call recordings). They wanted to simulate all the sales in 1 hour time!

We tried to get refund, but unsuccessfully, they and our users pushed on us to do IEO anyway, to see what IDAX.pro will do. Note: we do not agreed on simulation.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to dispel some public doubts that have arisen about Libra's cryptocurrency project being developed by the company.

"No company is able to create a sought-after financial system. Therefore, we only laid the foundation and hope that by the time the Libra project is launched, our association will bring together 100 co-founders, among which we will have only one vote," said Mark Zuckerberg.