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UK e-money firms are financial crime risk, watchdog warns

December 14, 2021 Comments are Disabled

During the last decade the UK has become a global leader in financial technology (fintech), attracting a volume of investment that’s second only to the US. Light-touch regulation—meant to help […]

London launders the world’s dirty money

December 9, 2021 Comments are Disabled

According to the UK government, the country is one of the best in the world at tackling money laundering. Nothing could be further from the truth, says a leading think […]

Unstable DeFi could trigger wider crash, warns BIS

December 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The booming decentralised finance (‘DeFi’) market suffers from an existential problem, says the Bank for International Settlements (BIS): it isn’t decentralised. Meanwhile, the contagion risks from DeFi to the rest […]

Blockchain: an insider’s paradise

November 24, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The decentralisation inherent in cryptocurrency networks like bitcoin is valuable for its governance benefits, according to Hyun-Song Shin, head of research at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). But this […]

Sweden calls for EU-wide bitcoin mining ban

November 11, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The Swedish government has called for a European Union-wide ban on the mining of energy-intensive cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. Bitcoin and ethereum use an energy-intensive computer algorithm called ‘proof-of-work’ […]

Fed says stablecoin risks are growing

November 9, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The US central bank has warned of growing risks in the stablecoin sector. In its half-yearly Financial Stability report, released yesterday, the Federal Reserve said that stablecoins pose a growing […]

Cryptocurrency—who’s in charge?

November 4, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency is an experimental technology. But it’s also a $2.5trn market with growing and increasingly complex linkages to the traditional financial system—whether through ETFs, the futures market, central clearing, repo […]

Repo on the edge

October 25, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The market at the centre of the world’s financial system—repo—is witnessing record popularity. But it’s always prone to collapse, and now cryptocurrencies are joining the fray. The repo market The […]

A 400-year-old stablecoin (and why it failed)

October 21, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to existing money, like the dollar, euro, pound or gold—are the hottest topic in finance. From crypto-market dollars like Tether and Circle to Facebook’s Diem project and […]

Roll over Satoshi

October 19, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency has turned into an inferior version of the money Satoshi Nakamoto set out to replace. In the first bitcoin ‘block’, the cryptocurrency’s creator embedded a message: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 […]

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UK e-money firms are financial crime risk, watchdog warns

London launders the world’s dirty money

Unstable DeFi could trigger wider crash, warns BIS

Blockchain: an insider’s paradise

Sweden calls for EU-wide bitcoin mining ban

Fed says stablecoin risks are growing

Cryptocurrency—who’s in charge?

Repo on the edge

A 400-year-old stablecoin (and why it failed)

Roll over Satoshi

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