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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
India’s government said yesterday it plans to launch a digital version of its national currency later this year or in 2023. The country’s finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, said in her […]
In the last decade we’ve seen four massive leaks of data from offshore financial centres: the Panama, Paradise and Pandora papers and the FinCEN files. No-one knows who leaked this […]
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued stringent new rules banning cryptocurrency firms from promoting their tokens to the general public in the city-state. But in London crypto ads […]
During the last decade the UK has become a global leader in financial technology (fintech), attracting a volume of investment that’s second only to the US. Light-touch regulation—meant to help […]
Binance chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, has denied responsibility for scams conducted across his exchange’s decentralised finance (DeFi) platform, Binance Smart Chain. In a blog published on 4 November, Zhao said […]
Stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to existing money, like the dollar, euro, pound or gold—are the hottest topic in finance. From crypto-market dollars like Tether and Circle to Facebook’s Diem project and […]