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Bitcoin Daily: WisdomTree US Money Manager Ventures Into Bitcoin Exchanges; Nordea Bank Cleared To Prohibit Employee Bitcoin Trading

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As Jason Guthrie, WisdomTree Europe’s head of capital markets, pointed out, the offering is the first its kind by a mainstream, established asset manager. The British Virgin Islands has plans to release its own national cryptocurrency pegged one-to-one to the greenback so that its 35,000 residents can use it within its territory.

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This Week In Retail: Funding, Finance And Tech

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American Express is in the hot seat this week as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered the credit card company to pay out a very large amount to consumers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Here are the numbers: $240 million | Amount Prodigy Finance raised in its venture capital equity funding round.