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FCA warns of more payment firm failures

January 25, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Last year’s high-profile insolvency of German fintech giant Wirecard may be followed by more failures among payment firms and electronic money (e-money) institutions (EMIs), the UK financial markets regulator, the […]

Revolut faces an existential choice

January 21, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Financial ‘super-app’ Revolut has announced it is applying to become a UK bank. But the fintech firm, which boasts over 12m customers and has a private market valuation of over […]

CBDCs may be illegal in 4/5 of the world

January 15, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Many observers argue that the imminent arrival of central bank digital currency (CBDC) could herald the biggest shake-up to the world’s monetary system for nearly a century. But, say the […]

Law plays catch-up with cybercrime

January 14, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Dan Hyde, a partner at UK-based law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys, specialises in emerging technology. His beat includes artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, quantum computing, cryptocurrency and distributed […]

US turns to stablecoins to speed up payments

January 7, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The US government is turning to stablecoins—transferable digital tokens backed by fiat currency—as a way of speeding up its notoriously slow domestic payments system. Earlier this week the Office of […]

All eyes on tether

December 15, 2020 Comments are Disabled

For its promoters, it overcomes unfair restrictions on access to the world’s banking system. For critics, it’s the engine of a massive, system-wide fraud. All eyes are on tether, the […]

Binance chief says crypto storage puts off users

December 10, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange says crypto adoption may stall if consumers can’t find safer, more convenient ways to store their digital money. Outpacing stock exchanges Founded […]

To be human is to deceive

December 10, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Humans have an innate ability to deceive, both each other and themselves. And nowhere is this skill put to more powerful effect than in the world of money. Financial fraud […]

Standard Chartered, Northern Trust team up in crypto custody

December 9, 2020 Comments are Disabled

SC Ventures, the innovation and ventures unit of Standard Chartered Bank, and Northern Trust, one of the world’s largest custodian banks, are teaming up to create Zodia Custody, a new […]

Money or markets—which came first?

December 3, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Economics textbooks tell us humans created money to overcome the drawbacks of barter. If your chicken wasn’t worth someone’s bushel of grain, you had no bread and they had no […]

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FCA warns of more payment firm failures

Revolut faces an existential choice

CBDCs may be illegal in 4/5 of the world

Law plays catch-up with cybercrime

US turns to stablecoins to speed up payments

All eyes on tether

Binance chief says crypto storage puts off users

To be human is to deceive

Standard Chartered, Northern Trust team up in crypto custody

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