Bitcoin Suisse Eyes UAE Expansion with New Financial Services Approval

Zug, Switzerland, July 7th, 2026, Chainwire. Premium virtual assets pioneer BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. is now fully authorized by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, enabling regulated institutional services across the UAE. Building on its position as Switzerland’s leading crypto financial services provider, Bitcoin Suisse is further accelerating its international expansion. Bitcoin Suisse […]

The post Israel Opposes Turkey F-35 Sale As Russia Prepares Iran Su-35 Delivery appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A screen grab captured from a video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plane accompanied by four Su-35 fighter jets equipped with missiles during Putin’s journey to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on December 6, 2023 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images With indications that President Donald Trump will support lifting the ban on selling F-35 Lightning II stealth strike fighters to Turkey, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has predictably expressed opposition. While a delivery of the fifth-generation combat aircraft to Turkey likely isn’t imminent even if swiftly approved, Russia, meanwhile, seems to have made progress in manufacturing the first batch of 4.5-generation Su-35 Flanker fighters Iran ordered years ago. “I don’t think they should be given F-35s or engines for their fight

The post Tether Invests $20 Million In Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Tether said Tuesday it will invest $20 million in a strategic growth financing round for Mercado Bitcoin, a move that deepens the stablecoin issuer’s push into Latin America’s fast-growing market for blockchain-based financial services. Tether, the largest company in the digital asset industry and the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, framed the deal as part of a broader strategy of backing platforms that pair regulatory licensing with market scale.  Mercado Bitcoin, founded in São Paulo in 2013, has grown from a cryptocurrency exchange into what it describes as a full-stack on-chain financial services platform. The company now serves 4.5 million users and says it has issued more than 2 billion reais in tokenized assets. It holds more than 10 licenses across Brazil and Europe, including a payment institution license from Brazil’s central bank, along with broker-dealer, securitization and a

The post Richard Teng: Crypto has become a leading financial infrastructure, not just an asset appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Richard Teng discovered crypto in 2017, while still working as a regulator, and it changed how he viewed the future of financial services. “The more I deep dive into it, I realized that this is going to be the future of financial services,” he said in a recent appearance on the podcast “Figuring Out With Raj Shamani.” Now Co CEO of Binance, Teng argues that crypto is no longer only something people trade. In his view, it is increasingly becoming infrastructure that parts of the financial system can run on, because it can enable continuous markets and faster settlement. Why is speed becoming the new currency of markets? Teng highlighted limited trading hours and slow settlement as two frictions he sees across traditional finance. Stocks and bonds in most markets still trade primarily during set business hours, he said. That leaves investors with fewer optio

The post Bitcoin Suisse Wins Abu Dhabi License, Extends Digital Asset Push Into The UAE appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Bitcoin Suisse has received a Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The authorization, granted to Group subsidiary BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. (“BTCS ME”), clears the Swiss firm to offer regulated digital asset services across the United Arab Emirates. The company announced the milestone earlier today. The permission concludes a multi-stage licensing process with the FSRA, the regulator for ADGM, the international financial center of Abu Dhabi. It authorizes BTCS ME to provide a range of regulated services to institutional and professional clients in the UAE.  Founded in Zug in 2013, Bitcoin Suisse brings more than a decade of experience to the region. The Group safeguards $3.7 billion in crypto assets and ranks as the fourth-largest staking operator in the world. Clients under t

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United Arab Emirates tech enterprise Siada and Innovation City have launched the region’s first operational sovereign AI data center in Ras Al Khaimah. Bypassing Global Chip Shortages In a bid to bypass global tech supply bottlenecks and tighten data security, United Arab Emirates (UAE) tech enterprise Siada and Innovation City announced July 6 the launch […]

[PRESS RELEASE – Zug, Switzerland, July 7th, 2026] Premium virtual assets pioneer BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. is now fully authorized by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, enabling regulated institutional services across the UAE. Building on its position as Switzerland’s leading crypto financial services provider, Bitcoin Suisse is further accelerating its international expansion. […]