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When audits go wrong

December 5, 2022 Comments are Disabled

An auditor verifies the accuracy of a company’s financial records. He or she is supposed to spot any material misstatements, including those due to fraud or errors. And yet in […]

The initial reaction from traditional financial markets to the sudden bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX was dismissive. But could high-frequency trading (HFT) firms be the vector for contagion from crypto […]

Central banks’ zero-rate folly

October 13, 2022 Comments are Disabled

By keeping interest rates near zero for over a decade, central banks have created profound economic insecurity and financial fragility. That’s the argument of financial historian Edward Chancellor, guest on […]

Buy now pay less or…not at all

September 28, 2022 Comments are Disabled

How criminals can profit from shared liability BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) is a type of short-term financing allowing consumers to make purchases and pay at a later date (often […]

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August 15, 2022 Comments are Disabled

How to create a debit card using stolen ID details Tim Yunusov, our intrepid hacking correspondent, shows how easy it is to circumvent technology firms’ ID checks–and to spend money […]

Justin Sun goes where Terra/LUNA failed

May 28, 2022 Comments are Disabled

It’s hard to stamp out a bad idea in cryptocurrency. Shortly before the Terra (UST) stablecoin collapsed earlier this month, destroying most of the $50bn once invested in it and […]

Crypto lender Celsius under pressure

May 27, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency lender and deposit-taker Celsius Network is under increasing pressure after this month’s rout in stablecoins. As at 06.00 GMT on 27 May, Celsius’s native token $CEL was trading at […]

Fake IDs blow hole in Russia sanctions

March 8, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Amidst the escalating war in Ukraine, Western countries are seeking to step up sanctions against Russia-linked entities. But sanctions can only be enforced if the dividing line between permitted and […]

Kleptocratic money flows may kill democracy

March 2, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Democratic systems are at risk from a reliance on oligarchs’ money flows, says Tom Burgis, an author and journalist at the Financial Times. Burgis is the author of a 2020 […]

Cordon off and shut down DeFi, says US law professor

February 21, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Decentralised finance (DeFi) resembles the unregulated ‘shadow banking’ whose unruly growth triggered the 2008 financial crisis. And regulators need to move fast to avoid a repeat of the crash, says […]

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When audits go wrong

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Central banks’ zero-rate folly

Buy now pay less or…not at all

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Justin Sun goes where Terra/LUNA failed

Crypto lender Celsius under pressure

Fake IDs blow hole in Russia sanctions

Kleptocratic money flows may kill democracy

Cordon off and shut down DeFi, says US law professor

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