The incredible boom in fintech and crypto banking is eroding long-standing protections for depositors and creating wider systemic risks. Deposit insurance and depositor preference If you deposit money in a […]
How much bitcoin trading takes place in ‘real money’? Not much. Most is hermetically sealed within the crypto ecosystem. Over two thirds of all bitcoin trading activity takes place in […]
“We’ve never been so busy,” says Nick Furneaux, a digital forensic investigator who specialises in cryptocurrency crime. Furneaux, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast, works with law […]
US regulators are cracking down aggressively on the trading platforms that offer mouth-watering dollar-denominated interest rates on loans of crypto assets. On Friday, Coinbase announced that it was discontinuing a […]
International banking business has shrunk since the financial crisis of 2008, reversing a six-decade trend of increasing globalisation, according to new research from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In […]
To build an ecologically sound future economy, we need to find a more sustainable system of money. That’s the view of Steve Keen, author, heterodox economist and our guest on […]
The head of the UK financial services regulator has issued a stark warning about the risks facing retail investors in cryptocurrency, saying that social media channels are amplifying the danger. […]
Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange at the centre of a recent global regulatory crackdown, may have covered up the extent of client liquidations during the May 19 crypto crash, according to […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says new public policies are urgently needed to address the growing dominance of large technology firms in financial services. In a bulletin published on […]
The public needs protection from the Wild West land grab that’s now going on in money, says Rohan Grey, my guest on the latest episode of the New Money Review […]