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Telegram abandons blockchain plans

May 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Social network Telegram is abandoning its plans to launch a new blockchain, the firm announced yesterday in a blogpost from its chief executive, Pavel Durov. Together with the recent decision […]

Hard times call for local currencies

April 24, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Hard economic times can spur the adoption of local currencies. Could digital payments give a boost to the trend? In an economic slump, no one has much cash. And if […]

Payments are about politics

April 22, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The ongoing revolution in payments merits everyone’s attention. That’s because it’s not just a question of winners and losers in the battle over payment technology or the societal impact of […]

Facebook scales back global currency plans

April 16, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In an updated version of its white paper, released today, the Libra Association says it is scaling back its initial plans for a global payments medium and instead focusing on […]

China digital cash launch threatens US control

April 16, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Leaked prototypes of China’s new central bank digital currency (CBDC) suggest the country will use mobile phone-based money to challenge US control of the global financial system. According to media […]

The users are in charge

April 15, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Bitcoin poses a revolutionary challenge to conventional models of financial governance, says a University of Luxembourg researcher. Financial market infrastructures—or ‘FMIs’, for short—are the most heavily regulated part of the […]

Tokens will remake markets and geopolitics

April 6, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Tokens—smart digital claims on assets—are going to completely remake financial markets, predicts author and technologist David Birch. Meanwhile, China’s state-backed digital currency experiment could accelerate a global power shift from […]

#Coronacrisis accelerates state digital currency plans

March 25, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Although they haven’t yet reached fruition, plans to issue government-backed digital currencies in the world’s two largest economies appear to be moving forward in the wake of the economic disruption […]

Whose backstop?

March 17, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Welcome to the new financial system. Same as the old one? On the face of it, the philosophical differences between centralised and decentralised finance (or ‘CeFi’ and ‘DeFi’, for short) […]

Bank of England calls for help amidst payment revolution

March 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The UK’s central bank has called for public input regarding the design of a new national digital currency amidst what it calls a revolution in payments. In a discussion paper […]

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Telegram abandons blockchain plans

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Facebook scales back global currency plans

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Tokens will remake markets and geopolitics

#Coronacrisis accelerates state digital currency plans

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