Sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine have caused London, the world’s major bullion trading market, to shrink. According to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), gold held […]
Former banker Sean Tuffy tracks the impact of global financial regulation on the investment business. In recent years he’s been paying a lot of attention to cryptocurrencies, digital assets and […]
Since the coronavirus pandemic, many of us have switched from paying by cash to paying almost exclusively by card or digital wallet. My guest on the latest New Money Review […]
Payment cards linked to cryptocurrencies are booming. But adding a volatile, fraud-ridden new technology (crypto) to a rickety old one (card payment networks) risks all kinds of new problems. By […]
It’s been a torrid year for investors in cryptocurrency but the worst is not over, says Carol Alexander, my guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. In 2023 the […]
An auditor verifies the accuracy of a company’s financial records. He or she is supposed to spot any material misstatements, including those due to fraud or errors. And yet in […]
We are living in the golden age of fraud. But we’re also in a golden age for data leaks. In the last six years we’ve seen a cascade of confidential […]
The initial reaction from traditional financial markets to the sudden bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX was dismissive. But could high-frequency trading (HFT) firms be the vector for contagion from crypto […]
The fallout from the demise of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has reached the crypto deposit and lending platform BlockFi, which announced at 1.15am GMT on 11 November that it was suspending […]
The cryptocurrency crash triggered by this week’s failure of the FTX exchange has now reached the largest dollar token, Tether. As at 12.10 GMT on 10 November, Tether had lost […]