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Negative rates will shake up society

June 11, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Most of us are so used to the concept that saved money grows by earning a positive rate of interest that the idea of negative interest rates comes as a […]

We have to decentralise finance

June 9, 2020 Comments are Disabled

It’s time to reverse the major trend seen since the 2008 financial crisis—centralisation. That’s the opinion of Alex Lipton, an academic and former Wall Street quant who now works at […]

Covid wipes out cash

June 5, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The rate of spread of coronavirus through the human population may be slowing, but the pandemic seems well on the way to claiming another permanent victim: physical cash. That seems […]

EU falling short on fintech regulations

June 4, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Two key European Union laws—the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5)—are hindering the future growth of financial technology (‘fintech’) and blockchain businesses in the […]

Bitcoin is tech before it’s money

June 3, 2020 Comments are Disabled

To understand bitcoin, think of it as a technology rather than as a speculative financial asset, a leading computer scientist said this week. “People often talk about bitcoin as an […]

The new money rails

June 2, 2020 Comments are Disabled

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 […]

Bitcoin’s strange feedback loop

May 27, 2020 Comments are Disabled

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 […]

Taking the difficulty out of bitcoin

May 25, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Bitcoin mining is one of the riskiest industries in the world. Now a new financial product aims to make the activity a little less dangerous. Hashrate futures, launched last week […]

We will make our own money

May 20, 2020 Comments are Disabled

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 […]

The smart money upheaval

May 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

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 […]

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