Cryptocurrency networks are intensely political. But it’s often fiendishly hard to work out how those politics operate. Who made the decision to split the ethereum network in 2016, or to […]
Financial market data is now a huge revenue earner: spending on market-related data and news has grown at a compounded rate of 13 percent a year since 2012, according to […]
The fallout from last week’s indictment by the New York State Attorney General of Bitfinex and Tether continues, this time in the form of a 6 percent price premium in […]
Since 2013, the cryptocurrency market has seen periodic bouts of excitement about the potential launch of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the US, followed by disappointment. No bitcoin ETFs have […]
The opening up of banks’ customer data to financial technology (‘fintech’) firms has been hailed as a revolution. Fintech promises new, user-friendly services while making online payments easier, safer and […]
Could digital payments help restore clients’ trust in a company that’s lost it? It’s been a terrible twelve months for Facebook. Accusations of interference in electoral processes, evidence of widespread […]
It’s a period of heady and unprecedented innovation in both money and payments. But don’t expect central banks to join the party. That’s the sober message delivered today by Agustín […]
One of the best business books of recent years, ‘How Music Got Free’, by Stephen Witt, tells an engrossing tale of obsession, music, obscene money, visionaries, criminals and tycoons. […]
Several blockchain initiatives aiming to reform the system of ownership for the world’s share and bond markets have just hit road bumps. One project, SETL, has said it is putting […]
If there’s one obvious use case for distributed ledger or ‘blockchain’ technology, it’s in providing the future accounting systems for the world’s share and bond markets. At a stroke, shared […]