Bitcoin jumps after first solution to major ideological divide
Businessam Staff
July 18, 2017
Bitcoin reversed steep losses as miners began using new software which aims to bridge an ideological gap that has threatened to divide the crypto-currency. Bitcoin’s community has been at bitter odds for more than two years about how to solve its scaling problem, which has hampered the cryptocurrency’s growth and allowed rivals like ethereal to […]
French bank BNP Paribas is stung by a £188m fine over currency trading scandal
Businessam StaffJuly 18, 2017
BNP Paribas has been fined £188 million for failing to keep its currency traders from using electronic chatrooms to manipulate prices. The French bank will pay the money to the US Federal Reserve, which claims it failed to detect and address its traders’ use of electronic chatrooms to discuss their positions in the market for […]