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Hypothekarbank Lenzburg has become the first bank in Switzerland to provide business accounts to blockchain and cryptocurrency companies, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported June 6.While Falcon Private Bank has provided crypto asset management services since last year, Hypothekarbank Lenzburg CEO Marianne Wildi confirmed that they are first bank in the country to open company accounts for blockchain and crypto-related fintech companies.

Since the Bitcoin fervor of last December, SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, has been declaring that token sales are securities and should be regulated similarly to stocks on public exchanges.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced Wednesday that it was *making strides toward its goal* to operate a federally regulated broker-dealer.

"Tech giants such as Google , Amazon or Facebook will undoubtedly pick up blockchain and generate business models from it. However, I think that the core of Blockchain - as a decentralized technology - will diminish [their] market power."

The National Archives, the official record-keeper of the UK government, is investigating the use of blockchain for records sharing.

Financial services firm Northern Trust won a patent Wednesday for a method for backing up records of meetings using blockchain tech.

The age-old idiom may be particularly relevant for David Vorick, the co-founder of the Sia blockchain, whose new project aims to fight powerful crypto mining chip manufacturers by bringing competition to the sector.

Venezuelans' interest in buying Bitcoin has increased significantly over the last three months, Criptonoticias news outlet reports Wednesday, June 6, citing data from the LocalBitcoins exchange.

The SEC won't budge when it comes to how it regulates token sales, the agency's chairman remarked on Wednesday.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has refused a Freedom of Information Act for a release of the subpoenas allegedly issued last year to cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and token issuer Tether, Coindesk reports Wednesday, June 6.Bitfinex and Tether share a CEO, Jan Ludovicus van der Velde, and the two entities had created controversy last fall over alleged price manipulation of Tether.

Rostin Benham, a commissioner at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, spoke during the Blockchain for Impact Global Summit, held at the United Nations Plaza on Monday.

The failure of the RSI to rise above the 50 levels also adds to the negative sentiment.

Peer-to-peer payments platform Circle Internet Financial Ltd., is pursuing both a federal banking license with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and registration as a brokerage and trading venue with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Raj Kundra, a British businessman and spouse of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty, was questioned by Indian law enforcement in connection with Amit Bhardwaj's alleged cryptocurrency ponzi scheme, Quartz India reports Wednesday, June 6.Amit Bhardwaj and his brother, Vivek Bhardwaj had been arrested in India on April 4 on the charges of scamming about 8,000 investors out of around $300 mln through their GainBitcoin investment scheme.

The top U.S. futures regulator has denied a Freedom of Information Act request for subpoenas reportedly issued to crypto exchange Bitfinex and the closely-linked 'stablecoin' operator Tether, according to records obtained by CoinDesk.

Users of Ethereum software issued by Parity Technologies face enforced updates this week after warnings a testnet vulnerability could spread to the Ethereum network, according to Parity's blog post June 6.Parity is a UK-based provider of infrastructure software for interacting with the Ethereum network.

Jay Clayton, the chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, believes that Bitcoin is not a security since it acts as a replacement for sovereign currencies, CNBC reports today, June 6.Clayton, when speaking about the "Incredible promise" of distributed ledger technologies driving efficiencies in markets, clarified during today's CNBC interview his thoughts on cryptocurrencies that are "Replacements for sovereign currencies:".

VanEck and SolidX Partners Inc. have filed a request to list a Bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Bloomberg reports June 6.VanEck is an NYC-based investment management firm with $38 bln under management and SolidX is a provider of blockchain software development and financial services.

US investment giant Fidelity Investments is hiring developers to build a cryptocurrency exchange, reports claim June 6 citing internal correspondence.

Japan's Financial Services Agency has barred a crypto exchange from receiving an operating license for the first time, Nikkei Asian Review reports Tuesday, June 5.The regulator has now chosen to permanently deny registration to Yokohama-based FSHO, whose services were already suspended twice by the FSA this spring, over concerns the exchange operator did not sufficiently verify the identity of customers in cases of suspect transactions.

Investment firm VanEck has partnered with financial services company SolidX in the latest attempt to launch the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund.

Binance coin, the token launched by the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has hit an all-time high against bitcoin.

Revealed last night by UK-based Parity Technologies in a blog post, the issue was found to cause those running the software to fall out of sync, meaning others using different software would not recognize their transactions.

Cryptocurrency startup Circle is seeking to register as a federally licensed bank in the U.S., according to Bloomberg.

Cloud mining service Coinmint confirmed it would press ahead with opening a Bitcoin mining plant in an abandoned smokestack in Upstate New York, CNBC reports June 5.The move, which authorities greenlighted in January, will see the company invest "Up to $700 mln" in the project, which will repurpose the former 1300-acres-large Alcoa aluminium smelting plant by the end of 2019.Operations will continue under the newly-formed subsidiary North Country Data Center Corporation, which began work this week, a press release confirmed.

As of press time, Huobi is the world's third largest digital currency exchange by trade volume, according to Coinmarketcap.

Ripple's former CTO Stefan Thomas is going up against Ethereum with the launch of a new smart contracts platform.

Changpeng Zhao, the CEO and founder of Binance, revealed the company has set up a bank account in Malta, in an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph Wednesday, June 6th.Binance is currently the world's largest crypto exchange with $1.47 bln in trade volume, according to Coinmarketcap data.

Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has launched a blockchain-based reward points system aimed at innovating retail, according to a press release published today, June 6th. The blockchain-based data storage system tokenizes traditional retail promotional strategies such as coupons and loyalty points, which the company claims will revitalize local economies by increasing consumers' "Willingness to buy," as well as improving data analysis methods in retail industries.

Japan's financial market regulator is reportedly planning to issue its first ever refusal order to a business registration application filed by a domestic cryptocurrency exchange.