India’s supreme court has struck down a two-year ban on cryptocurrency use in the country, boosting the prospects for adoption of virtual currencies in the world’s second most populous state. […]
Avanti, a new crypto-asset bank to be based in US frontier state Wyoming, will take advantage of the state’s potentially revolutionary new legal framework for the custody of clients’ crypto […]
UK-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinfloor says it’s time for intermediaries selling bitcoin to stop misleading retail investors. According to the exchange’s chief executive, Obi Nwosu, retail investors wanting to experience what […]
Serious long-term holders of bitcoin want to control the private key that gives them ownership of their coins. In practice, many delegate control to specialist custodians like BitGo, which is […]
Ransomware attacks involving cryptocurrency are on the rise, and a new London lawsuit illustrates how the hackers are seeking to launder their ill-gotten gains. Lawyers say the case is a […]
US cyberspies fly to the UK to try to stop Britain signing a new deal with Huawei. The US threatens to cut off Iraq from the global financial infrastructure. A […]
The global financial infrastructure—a complex network of technical systems provided by central banks, exchanges, clearing houses and securities depositaries—supports trillions of dollars of trading a year and underlies almost all […]
Last week the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Agustín Carstens, made a spirited defence of central banks’ role in the global monetary system. “The monetary and […]
It’s time to level the playing field between technology firms and finance incumbents, say policymakers. Along with healthcare, transport and energy, finance is one of the most heavily regulated sectors […]
Facebook’s Libra project, announced this summer, shook up politicians and regulators by showing how quickly the digital money race is accelerating. To understand what’s going on, we need to look […]