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BIS warns of new monopolies in payments

June 24, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a rallying call for countries to prevent the emergence of powerful new monopolies in the form of digital platforms run by large […]

Rise of the platforms

June 23, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Big tech firms like Google, Facebook, Apple, Alibaba and Tencent want our payments data. Are we right to share it with them? “The entry of BigTechs into the provision of […]

Pandemics can reshape economies

June 16, 2020 Comments are Disabled

We can all see the short-term impacts of the coronavirus pandemic: fear, lockdowns, falls in output, restrictions on travel, frictions in supply chains, growing social tension and unprecedented government intervention. […]

Negative rates will shake up society

June 11, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Most of us are so used to the concept that saved money grows by earning a positive rate of interest that the idea of negative interest rates comes as a […]

We have to decentralise finance

June 9, 2020 Comments are Disabled

It’s time to reverse the major trend seen since the 2008 financial crisis—centralisation. That’s the opinion of Alex Lipton, an academic and former Wall Street quant who now works at […]

The new money rails

June 2, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Entrepreneurs are competing in an intensifying race to design the future standards for the transmission of money. Gauge war The western English town of Gloucester was once the frontline of […]

Bitcoin’s strange feedback loop

May 27, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The leading cryptocurrency’s design features cause it to behave weirdly: the more speculators buy bitcoin, the greater the short-term downward pressure on its price. “There are two features of bitcoin […]

We will make our own money

May 20, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In the last decade, everyone has been able to join networks like Airbnb and Uber to rent out their property or labour. The sharing economy now extends to electricity, where […]

The smart money upheaval

May 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

If money is ‘the most successful story ever invented by humans’, as Israeli historian Yuval Harari tells us, then the narrative is about to take a fantastical turn. That’s my […]

Coronavirus jumpstarts race for digital ID

May 7, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Digital identity systems promise a way out of the coronavirus slump. But as they have major implications for money systems, politics and democracy, getting them wrong could have disastrous repercussions. […]

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BIS warns of new monopolies in payments

Rise of the platforms

Pandemics can reshape economies

Negative rates will shake up society

We have to decentralise finance

The new money rails

Bitcoin’s strange feedback loop

We will make our own money

The smart money upheaval

Coronavirus jumpstarts race for digital ID

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