Jack Ma, the co-founder and chairman of Chinese technology giant Alibaba, has attacked the Basel regulatory framework for the global banking system, calling it a hindrance to development. The Basel […]
Cryptocurrency networks help support a growing volume of dollar transfers taking place outside the traditional financial system. The growth of private stablecoins As central banks around the world debate whether […]
Governments around the world are preparing to upgrade their national money from the paper to the digital era. Some argue the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) will mark […]
The global cryptoasset market is growing fast, but it’s one of the most opaque areas of finance. Now the world’s academic institutions are gearing up to map the sector. The […]
Open banking—which allows consumers to link savings, budgeting and faster payments apps with their bank accounts—is leaping ahead in the UK. But consumer protection standards may need to jump to […]
When the UK imposed its first coronavirus lockdown on 16 March, some consumers found they couldn’t get their money back for services they had paid for but were no longer […]
Earlier this month, the governor of the Bank of England made it clear that customers of electronic money (e-money) firms are less protected against a corporate collapse than customers of […]
When looking at financial markets, we should pay more attention to the physical stuff—the cables, boxes, chips and code—without which those markets wouldn’t exist. That’s because the money infrastructure has […]
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, says Europe is falling behind in the global money race and may soon launch a new digital version of the […]
Automated borrowing and lending transactions on cryptocurrency networks have soared this year. Is this yet another crypto bubble or is there a signal behind the noise? Where did DeFi come […]