{"id":249491,"date":"2018-02-21T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=249491"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:21:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:21:30","slug":"uk-and-us-join-forces-to-study-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/249491-uk-and-us-join-forces-to-study-cryptocurrency.html","title":{"rendered":"UK and US join forces to study cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regulators in the UK and US have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/pr7698-18#PrRoWMBL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> a collaborative effort to work on Fintech projects.<\/p>\n<p>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the US and the UK&#8217;s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will share information regarding market trends and developments in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries.<\/p>\n<p>The agencies aim to improve business collaboration with regulators, in addition to studying blockchain projects to determine how they should be regulated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that by collaborating with the best-in-class FCA FinTech team, the CFTC can contribute to the growing awareness of the critical role of regulators in 21st-century digital markets,&#8221; said the organisations.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/249485-coinbase-to-add-segwit-support.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Coinbase to add SegWit support<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK and US regulators have announced a collaborative effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":219068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[48776,49025,4188,34531,2732],"class_list":["post-249491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-cftc","tag-fca","tag-regulation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249549,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249491\/revisions\/249549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}