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DeFi is centralised after all

February 19, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The major promise of DeFi is decentralisation. But activity is now shifting to a wholly centralised platform. To an outsider, there are many incomprehensible things about the expanding DeFi craze: […]

Tether has to open its vaults

February 18, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Stablecoins—digital money backed by assets of stable value—are in vogue. But for a stablecoin to function, its users have to trust in its backing. And history is full of examples […]

Going cashless

February 17, 2021 Comments are Disabled

How China’s digital payments technology will take over the world. Our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast is Rich Turrin, a US citizen based for a decade in […]

Jack Bogle was right

February 15, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The warnings of the man who popularised index investing have proved eerily prescient. Jack Bogle, late founder of the world’s second-biggest asset manager, Vanguard, was notoriously opposed to exchange-traded funds […]

Linking energy and money

February 11, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Far from being a problem, bitcoin’s electricity consumption is healthy. In fact, making an explicit link between energy and money would help promote sustainable economic development, says Andrew Webber, founder […]

St. Louis Fed highlights DeFi promise

February 9, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Slowly but surely, an alternative financial infrastructure is being built, promising a cheaper, more efficient, stable and transparent way of lending and borrowing, issuing securities and managing money. If that […]

Share-trading small fry rush to join the menu

February 5, 2021 Comments are Disabled

As more details of the RobinHood crisis emerge, it has become clear that the stock-trading app at the centre of the busiest period of trading in Wall Street history was […]

Go local with money, payments and data

February 4, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Local currencies can help restore balance in society and it’s time to move away from an economy based on the exploitation of individuals’ personal data. So says Diana Finch, managing […]

A new age of private money

January 26, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The appearance of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin is part of a much bigger trend—the re-emergence of private money as a competitor to state-issued currencies like the dollar, euro, yen or pound. […]

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 […]

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DeFi is centralised after all

Tether has to open its vaults

Going cashless

Jack Bogle was right

Linking energy and money

St. Louis Fed highlights DeFi promise

Share-trading small fry rush to join the menu

Go local with money, payments and data

A new age of private money

Revolut faces an existential choice

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