India’s supreme court has struck down a two-year ban on cryptocurrency use in the country, boosting the prospects for adoption of virtual currencies in the world’s second most populous state. […]
A three-decade global push to tighten anti-money-laundering (AML) rules appears to be running out of road. That’s one conclusion to be drawn from the latest Bank for International Settlements (BIS) […]
The unusual incentives built into the bitcoin network mean that the cryptocurrency inverts the laws of economics: the more people buy bitcoin, the more its price goes down. That’s the […]
Money is undergoing unprecedented change: around the world, we see new ways of paying each other, new stores of value, new ways of recording economic activity and new forms of […]
In our latest podcast, Neil Walsh, the Vienna-based head of the Cybercrime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Department at the United Nations, gives an exclusive interview to […]
Ransomware attacks involving cryptocurrency are on the rise, and a new London lawsuit illustrates how the hackers are seeking to launder their ill-gotten gains. Lawyers say the case is a […]
Emerging markets are at the forefront of the race to develop central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and all eyes are on China. That’s the main conclusion of a new Bank […]
The global financial infrastructure—a complex network of technical systems provided by central banks, exchanges, clearing houses and securities depositaries—supports trillions of dollars of trading a year and underlies almost all […]
Ten years ago, Indians relied largely on cheques to move money around the country, a legacy of the colonial era. Now India operates the most advanced digital payments system in […]
For the regulators in charge of the global financial market’s infrastructure, new technologies are prompting a fundamental rethink of how payments and securities trades are settled. Now the Committee for […]