Faruk Fatih Özer’s exchange suddenly went offline last year, and the founder and CEO fled to Albania, leaving almost 400,000 members in the dark and without access to their funds. Users had deposited $2 billion in cryptocurrencies in the exchange, wrote Cumhuriyet, Turkey’s oldest newspaper, on Tuesday.
Citi, JPMorgan Among U.S. Financial Firms Teaming Up to Explore Sharing Ledger Technology for Multiasset Transactions
The research project, titled Regulated Settlement Network (RSN) proof-of-concept (PoC), will explore the potential of bringing commercial-bank money, wholesale central-bank...