US regulators are cracking down aggressively on the trading platforms that offer mouth-watering dollar-denominated interest rates on loans of crypto assets. On Friday, Coinbase announced that it was discontinuing a […]
Last year’s dramatic collapse of German payments firm Wirecard was the biggest accounting scandal since the Enron failure, two decades earlier. But according to Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation fighting […]
It’s time to target the enablers of large-scale financial crime, including law firms, accountants and the jurisdictions allowing corporate secrecy, says the son of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. […]
To build an ecologically sound future economy, we need to find a more sustainable system of money. That’s the view of Steve Keen, author, heterodox economist and our guest on […]
The head of the UK financial services regulator has issued a stark warning about the risks facing retail investors in cryptocurrency, saying that social media channels are amplifying the danger. […]
Payment cards linked to cryptocurrencies are booming. But they combine a new technology (crypto) and an old one (card payment networks). In this guest post, payments security researcher Timur Yunusov […]
Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange at the centre of a recent global regulatory crackdown, may have covered up the extent of client liquidations during the May 19 crypto crash, according to […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says new public policies are urgently needed to address the growing dominance of large technology firms in financial services. In a bulletin published on […]
In our slippery world of risk, uncertainty, change and complexity, hard and fast rules can be rare. Sometimes those rules can even be a trap, says Gerald Ashley, our guest […]
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is facing legal action or new regulatory scrutiny in at least ten countries as a global crackdown spreads. But the exchange is fast unveiling new payment gateways […]