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 […]
We should all pay attention to what’s going on in payments, because changes in the technology of money transfers are going to affect all our lives. In the latest New […]
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is targeted by regulators around the world in a coordinated crackdown. Binance wants to join the system “Binance UK is fully regulated by the FCA,” […]
Bitcoin’s hash rate has fallen by nearly half in two months after the Chinese cryptocurrency mining sector was largely shut down. Bitcoin hash rate plummets At 102 exahashes per second […]
The UK’s central bank is preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime reordering of the monetary system as a result of the arrival of new forms of digital money. In a discussion paper […]
The race to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is often portrayed as one of polar opposites: the Chinese hare against the US tortoise. But we should keep a […]