This year’s coronavirus pandemic has accelerated plans for the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)—a mobile-ready replacement for our state-issued banknotes and coins. But many of the most important […]
Amidst the chaotic fallout of the US presidential election, one result at least seemed clear: the half-century-long war on drugs has come to an end. That’s how many observers have […]
Banks should get into the lucrative cryptocurrency custody business soon or risk failing to exploit a key competitive advantage, say Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and law firm White & Case […]
Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp said that from today it is rolling out a payments option for its 400m users in India. The new feature will enable Indian users of the […]
The US government disclosed today that it had seized over $1bn of bitcoin from an unidentified individual who had stolen the cryptocurrency by hacking the Silk Road dark net website […]
Facebook’s ‘Libra’ digital currency project combined incompetence and arrogance and was bound to fail, says David Gerard, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Gerard, a technology expert […]
Around the world, payments are becoming faster, more efficient and more convenient due to the increasing adoption of digital and mobile technology, says the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in […]
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has intervened to halt the public sale of shares in Ant Group, China’s financial technology giant, due to take place later this week. The share […]
Jack Ma, the co-founder and chairman of Chinese technology giant Alibaba, has attacked the Basel regulatory framework for the global banking system, calling it a hindrance to development. The Basel […]
The recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is proving patchy. It’s prone to conflict, fear and mistrust. And if we don’t fix our flawed digital identity infrastructure, says Bianca Lopes, our […]
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