Visa backed Anchorage gets a federal bank charter

A startup called Anchorage announced on Wednesday that it has become the first cryptocurrency company to receive a federal charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Wonky and technical as it sounds, the news is a significant milestone for the burgeoning crypto industry, since it provides a legal green light for big…

Crypto Exchange Binance Is Setting Up Shop in Singapore

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is launching a new fiat-to-crypto exchange in Singapore later this month. The news was announced Thursday by Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao at the Deconomy event in Seoul, South Korea, in a tweet on the exchange’s account that said: “#Binance Singapore will come online in April. It will be our next Fiat…