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 […]
The combination of finance and technology is driving the biggest change in human history in 500 years, says Viktor Shvets, my guest on this week’s podcast. Shvets, a Hong Kong-based […]
International banking business has shrunk since the financial crisis of 2008, reversing a six-decade trend of increasing globalisation, according to new research from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In […]
The public needs protection from the Wild West land grab that’s now going on in money, says Rohan Grey, my guest on the latest episode of the New Money Review […]
Belief in a new era, rampant speculation, insider dealing, market manipulation, fortunes being won and lost… The cryptocurrency boom of 2020/21 sounds very much like the US stock market before […]
Lots of cryptocurrency traders got rekt (wrecked) during Wednesday’s market rout. But were their positions liquidated at a fair price? The latest crypto crash has prompted renewed questions about the […]