Entrepreneurs are competing in an intensifying race to design the future standards for the transmission of money. Gauge war The western English town of Gloucester was once the frontline of […]
The leading cryptocurrency’s design features cause it to behave weirdly: the more speculators buy bitcoin, the greater the short-term downward pressure on its price. “There are two features of bitcoin […]
In the last decade, everyone has been able to join networks like Airbnb and Uber to rent out their property or labour. The sharing economy now extends to electricity, where […]
If money is ‘the most successful story ever invented by humans’, as Israeli historian Yuval Harari tells us, then the narrative is about to take a fantastical turn. That’s my […]
Hard economic times can spur the adoption of local currencies. Could digital payments give a boost to the trend? In an economic slump, no one has much cash. And if […]
Leaked prototypes of China’s new central bank digital currency (CBDC) suggest the country will use mobile phone-based money to challenge US control of the global financial system. According to media […]
The dramatic March 12 price crash in cryptocurrency markets showed that the underlying market structure of bitcoin and ethereum is broken and needs fixing, says Kyle Samani, our guest on […]
For anyone working in the financial markets of G20 countries, ‘compliance’ means adherence to a set of laws and regulations governing who can have access to the financial system. Compliance […]
A breakdown in the supply chain for deliveries of physical gold is causing a dramatic deterioration in the liquidity of the wholesale gold market. According to Ross Norman, a commentator […]
Leveraged trading platforms played a big part in driving last week’s price collapse in bitcoin and ethereum, says a cryptocurrency fund manager. On March 12th bitcoin dropped from $7,800 to […]
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