Dan Hyde, a partner at UK-based law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys, specialises in emerging technology. His beat includes artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, quantum computing, cryptocurrency and distributed […]
Just three UK-based cryptoasset firms have been registered by the UK financial markets regulator in time for its own January 10 deadline, amidst signs the regulator is struggling to process […]
Tether insiders Paolo Ardoino and Stuart Hoegner said they may reveal full details of the reserves backing the controversial digital dollar some time later this year. “We are contemplating providing […]
The US government is turning to stablecoins—transferable digital tokens backed by fiat currency—as a way of speeding up its notoriously slow domestic payments system. Earlier this week the Office of […]
The US/China conflict over the future of money has just moved up a notch. Yesterday, outgoing US president Donald Trump signed an executive order banning US users from accessing eight […]
Europe’s introduction over two decades ago of a legal framework for new payments technology and electronic forms of money has been credited with making the region a global hotbed of financial technology […]
For its promoters, it overcomes unfair restrictions on access to the world’s banking system. For critics, it’s the engine of a massive, system-wide fraud. All eyes are on tether, the […]
Humans have an innate ability to deceive, both each other and themselves. And nowhere is this skill put to more powerful effect than in the world of money. Financial fraud […]
Economics textbooks tell us humans created money to overcome the drawbacks of barter. If your chicken wasn’t worth someone’s bushel of grain, you had no bread and they had no […]
Central banks are braced for a world in which digital dollar tokens called stablecoins explode in value, posing a threat to governments’ ability to monitor the financial system. That’s one […]