Paul Amery, Author at New Money Review

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Let the bad guys in

November 12, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Amidst the chaotic fallout of the US presidential election, one result at least seemed clear: the half-century-long war on drugs has come to an end. That’s how many observers have […]

Private stablecoins won’t work as money, says the BIS

November 10, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Privately issued stablecoins—digital money backed by fiat currency like the US dollar—won’t work in the long term as they lack the government support implicit in central bank money, say researchers […]

Banks need to move fast in crypto custody

November 10, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Banks should get into the lucrative cryptocurrency custody business soon or risk failing to exploit a key competitive advantage, say Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and law firm White & Case […]

Why Libra was bound to fail

November 5, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Facebook’s ‘Libra’ digital currency project combined incompetence and arrogance and was bound to fail, says David Gerard, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Gerard, a technology expert […]

Flawed ID systems risk perpetual crisis

October 23, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is proving patchy. It’s prone to conflict, fear and mistrust. And if we don’t fix our flawed digital identity infrastructure, says Bianca Lopes, our […]

Dollar jumps tracks

October 21, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency networks help support a growing volume of dollar transfers taking place outside the traditional financial system. The growth of private stablecoins As central banks around the world debate whether […]

Keeping money public

October 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Governments around the world are preparing to upgrade their national money from the paper to the digital era. Some argue the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) will mark […]

UK regulator follows up anti-crypto threat

October 6, 2020 Comments are Disabled

A year after it threatened to ban the sale to retail clients of contracts based on bitcoin and other cryptoassets, the UK’s financial markets regulator has put its words into […]

A cryptoasset snapshot

October 2, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The global cryptoasset market is growing fast, but it’s one of the most opaque areas of finance. Now the world’s academic institutions are gearing up to map the sector. The […]

No-refund complaints soar with Covid

September 23, 2020 Comments are Disabled

When the UK imposed its first coronavirus lockdown on 16 March, some consumers found they couldn’t get their money back for services they had paid for but were no longer […]

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Author: Paul Amery

Let the bad guys in

Private stablecoins won’t work as money, says the BIS

Banks need to move fast in crypto custody

Why Libra was bound to fail

Flawed ID systems risk perpetual crisis

Dollar jumps tracks

Keeping money public

UK regulator follows up anti-crypto threat

A cryptoasset snapshot

No-refund complaints soar with Covid

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