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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 […]

Crypto’s wildfire growth creates run risks

October 13, 2021 Comments are Disabled

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 […]

Tether dominates bitcoin trading

October 11, 2021 Comments are Disabled

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 […]

Global regulators close in on tether

October 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Global financial regulators say the operators of digital tokens pegged to fiat currencies—stablecoins—must follow the stringent rules for other important financial infrastructures, such as payment systems, central securities depositories, securities […]