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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 […]

Governments go long bitcoin

November 28, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Governments are acquiring an increasing share of the overall bitcoin supply after a spate of asset seizures from cyber criminals. In recent days, Chinese authorities have announced the confiscation of […]

Digital currency—a central banker’s view

November 16, 2020 Comments are Disabled

This year’s coronavirus pandemic has accelerated plans for the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)—a mobile-ready replacement for our state-issued banknotes and coins. But many of the most important […]

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 […]

One in four high-quality bonds has negative yield

November 9, 2020 Comments are Disabled

More than a quarter by value of the world’s investment-grade bonds now have negative yields, according to the latest data from Bloomberg. The market value of the Bloomberg Barclays Global […]

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 […]

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Standard Chartered, Northern Trust team up in crypto custody

Money or markets—which came first?

Governments go long bitcoin

Digital currency—a central banker’s view

Let the bad guys in

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

Banks need to move fast in crypto custody

One in four high-quality bonds has negative yield

Why Libra was bound to fail

Flawed ID systems risk perpetual crisis

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