According to the Tax Justice Network, the US has overtaken Switzerland to take second place in a global ranking of countries most complicit in facilitating illicit financial flows, while the […]
UK-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinfloor says it’s time for intermediaries selling bitcoin to stop misleading retail investors. According to the exchange’s chief executive, Obi Nwosu, retail investors wanting to experience what […]
Everyone outside the country is expecting the arrival of China’s new sovereign digital currency. President Xi has recently been singing the praises of blockchain technology, the infrastructure for the new […]
In our latest podcast, Neil Walsh, the Vienna-based head of the Cybercrime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Department at the United Nations, gives an exclusive interview to […]
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Global financial markets are now addicted to the trillions of dollars of liquidity being pumped into the system by central banks, says Michael Howell, CEO of CrossBorder Capital, a London-based […]
Emerging markets are at the forefront of the race to develop central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and all eyes are on China. That’s the main conclusion of a new Bank […]
A December incident at the frontier between traditional money and cryptocurrency highlights tensions over access to the global financial system. Just before Christmas, a cryptocurrency investor and twitter user called […]
Ten years ago, Indians relied largely on cheques to move money around the country, a legacy of the colonial era. Now India operates the most advanced digital payments system in […]
For the regulators in charge of the global financial market’s infrastructure, new technologies are prompting a fundamental rethink of how payments and securities trades are settled. Now the Committee for […]