Bankera is dedicated to building a fully digital bank without the costly limitations of physical branches that will one day represent a single destination for a complete range of financial services. It operates as a fork of SpectroCoin, which has a bank-like infrastructure with more than 700,000 clients and five years of maturity in the cryptocurrency market. Read more here:

https://www.ccn.com/bankera-acquires-pacific-private-bank-ltd-well-way-deliver-blockchain-era-banking/

Spanish banking giant Banco Santander is set to roll-out a personal payments app for retail customers powered by Ripple’s blockchain technology in Q1 2018. Find more info here:

https://www.ccn.com/3-clicks-40-secs-santander-launch-ripple-retail-app-4-countries/

Taipei City is raising its fintech profile and will be powered by IOTA’s distributed ledger technology.  Read more here:

https://www.ccn.com/taiwan-smart-city-turns-to-iotas-dlt/

The Italian government is seeking feedback on proposed cryptocurrency regulations intended to clarify the technology's use within the country. The new rules will be implemented before July 2018. Read more here:

https://www.coindesk.com/italian-crypto-businesses-to-register-under-proposed-new-rules/

China is aiming to block all websites related to cryptocurrency trading an ICOs.

China will add offshore cryptocurrency exchanges and ICO websites to its Great Firewall, the South China Morning Post reported Monday, reported Feb. 5, quoting a publication affiliated with the People’s Bank of China (PBoC).

Regulators in China reportedly voiced dissatisfaction with current measures restricting trading on domestic exchange sites, coming to a decision to block foreign sites as well to counter “financial risks”.

In January, a fresh crackdown from Beijing saw fringe trading platforms such as P2P and over-the-counter resources banned, adding to a blanket embargo on crypto-to-fiat trading and ICOs in place since September 2017.

At the same time, mixed signals have been given over the status of cryptocurrency mining, while Monday’s website block comes after Cointelegraph reported that ads relating to cryptocurrency had all but disappeared from domestic sites in China.

Now lawmakers say they wish to counter contingency moves from traders who sought to circumvent the trading ban by using foreign platforms.

“To prevent financial risks, China will step up measures to remove any onshore or offshore platforms related to virtual currency trading or ICOs,” the South China Morning Post quotes the PBoC-related publication as saying. The quote continues:

    “ICOs and virtual currency trading did not completely withdraw from China following the official ban… Overseas transactions and regulatory evasion have resumed… [R]isks are still there, fuelled by illegal issuance, and even fraud and pyramid selling.”

More info here :

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ban-complete-china-blocks-foreign-crypto-exchanges-to-counter-financial-risks

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