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Time to derail digital payments

January 12, 2023 Comments are Disabled

Since the coronavirus pandemic, many of us have switched from paying by cash to paying almost exclusively by card or digital wallet. My guest on the latest New Money Review […]

Adding crypto to payment cards is playing with fire

January 9, 2023 Comments are Disabled

Payment cards linked to cryptocurrencies are booming. But adding a volatile, fraud-ridden new technology (crypto) to a rickety old one (card payment networks) risks all kinds of new problems. By […]

FTX-HFT contagion?

November 13, 2022 Comments are Disabled

The initial reaction from traditional financial markets to the sudden bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX was dismissive. But could high-frequency trading (HFT) firms be the vector for contagion from crypto […]

Money meets geopolitics

November 7, 2022 Comments are Disabled

There are periods in human history when money and foreign policy converge—and this is one of them, says Paul Tucker, my guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Tucker, […]

Community money could have a big future

October 27, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Money theorist David Birch thinks we will all live in a world of multiple competing currencies. And communities, says Birch, will be one of the five main future issuers of […]

Central banks’ zero-rate folly

October 13, 2022 Comments are Disabled

By keeping interest rates near zero for over a decade, central banks have created profound economic insecurity and financial fragility. That’s the argument of financial historian Edward Chancellor, guest on […]

Why stablecoins disrupt the financial plumbing

October 6, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Two events in the last fifteen years have fundamentally altered the way the financial system operates—and neither was planned by global policymakers. The great crash of 2008 stopped banks from […]

Buy now pay less or…not at all

September 28, 2022 Comments are Disabled

How criminals can profit from shared liability BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) is a type of short-term financing allowing consumers to make purchases and pay at a later date (often […]

The worrying politics of cryptocurrency

September 21, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency billionaires are gaining a political foothold in countries rich and poor. Their influence now extends into governments, legislatures, charities and educational establishments around the world. In the US, cryptocurrency […]

North Korea—the new money superpower

September 8, 2022 Comments are Disabled

There’s a rising superpower in the world of money—a country that’s cut off from the global financial network, but which is playing an increasingly prominent and disruptive role within it. […]

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Time to derail digital payments

Adding crypto to payment cards is playing with fire

FTX-HFT contagion?

Money meets geopolitics

Community money could have a big future

Central banks’ zero-rate folly

Why stablecoins disrupt the financial plumbing

Buy now pay less or…not at all

The worrying politics of cryptocurrency

North Korea—the new money superpower

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