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Aug 21, 2023 | 
tickernews.co | Lachlan Keller
Marsh, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor, and a business of Fortune-200 company Marsh McLennan, has today acquired Australian insurance broker Honan Insurance Group. Honan is one of the fastest-growing mid-market insurance brokers with a team of 400 employees across Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Marsh’s purchase of Honan will considerably increase its footprint in Australia.
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Feb 28, 2023 | 
forkast.news | Lachlan Keller
The recovery of Bitcoin prices since the start of the year has brought some breathing space to the companies that mine the world’s largest cryptocurrency after 2022 drove many to warn of cash shortages or even in the case of Core Scientific, one of the biggest publicly traded miners, to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Feb 28, 2023 | 
forkast.news | Lachlan Keller
Nasdaq-listed Robinhood Markets Inc., which runs the Robinhood equity and crypto trading app, received an investigative subpoena from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in December related to its trading and handling of cryptocurrencies, the company said in its annual 10-K filing on financial performance submitted to the SEC agency on Monday.
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Feb 22, 2023 | 
forkast.news | Lachlan Keller
A U.S. district court judge on Wednesday denied Dapper Labs’ request to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges that the NBA Top Shots non-fungible token (NFT) collection is an unregistered security.
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Feb 21, 2023 | 
forkast.news | Lachlan Keller
Coinbase Global Inc., the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, reported an increase in its fourth quarter 2022 earnings on Tuesday, even as overall users declined throughout the period. See related article:Coinbase CEO says he will “happily defend” crypto staking service against claim it’s a securities productFast factsCoinbase, the second largest crypto exchange in the world, reported US$605 million in net revenue for the quarter, beating analysts’ predictions of US$588 million.
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Feb 21, 2023 | 
forkast.news | Lachlan Keller
Cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Galois Capital will close and return the remaining funds to investors after losing US$40 million worth of assets in the collapse of crypto exchange FTX.com, the Financial Times reported on Monday. See related article:Former FTX executive Nishad Singh negotiating guilty plea on fraud charges: BloombergFast factsGalois had halted all trading and closed out all positions.
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Feb 20, 2023 | 
forkast.news | Lachlan Keller
Bitcoin and Ether rose in a mixed morning for the top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Solana posted the biggest gains while Polygon’s Matic led losses on Tuesday morning in Asia. See related article: Bitcoin surpasses Visa’s market cap to be 11th largest asset in the worldFast factsBitcoin rose 2.1% in the last 24 hours to trade at US$24,833 as of 8 a.m. in Hong Kong, bringing its gains to 13.9% over the past calendar week, according to CoinMarketCap.
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Feb 19, 2023 | 
forkast.news | Lachlan Keller
Nishad Singh, a former executive at bankrupt Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX.com, may plead guilty to fraud charges for his involvement in the company’s last November, Bloomberg reported on Friday. See related article:Judge says Bankman-Fried could ‘conceivably’ have bail revoked: CNNFast factsSingh is reportedly negotiating a deal with Manhattan prosecutors in the case, according to unnamed sources familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg.
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Feb 19, 2023 | 
forkast.news | Lachlan Keller
Bitcoin fell below US$24,000 in a mixed morning for the top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies by market capitalization on Monday in Asia. Solana posted the most gains in that list while leading memecoin Dogecoin dropped the most. See related article:Japan to launch digital yen pilot programme in AprilFast factsBitcoin fell 2.76% in the last 24 hours to trade at US$23,927 as of 9:15 a.m. in Hong Kong, but was still up 11.9% over the past week, according to CoinMarketCap.
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Feb 19, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Lachlan Keller
The cruise line has done something that suggests that a major rumor is going to come true. Wonder of the Seas, the newest member of Royal Caribbean's …
