According to some fintech firms, large banks do have a future. It’s just as a low-value provider of the transaction data that they, the highly rated tech specialists, will exploit. […]
Last week, France’s finance minister slammed Libra, Facebook’s proposed payments coin, for encroaching on a key area of national power. Bruno Le Maire said his country would block the development […]
Facebook’s new payment initiative, Libra, is already causing discord between policymakers in the UK and those in other European Union countries. Libra, which is heavily backed by Mark Zuckerberg’s social […]
What do Wikipedia—an online encyclopedia—and bitcoin—internet money—have in common? Both are open-source projects. This type of initiative is playing an increasingly powerful role in many areas of life. Open-source networks […]
Only a few months ago, central banks were stalling on plans to issue their own digital currencies. Now China is taking an early lead in the race to launch one. […]
Hardly at all, then at once—the tectonic plates of the global monetary system are shifting. Mark Carney, the outgoing Bank of England governor, yesterday shocked the traditionally staid annual August […]
The US financial system was designed to ensure that no single entity would ever dominate the nation’s money. But the downside of this legacy is becoming ever-clearer when it comes […]
Is tether a fraud or a threat to the hegemony of the US dollar? Nothing better illustrates the clash between traditional finance and the new world of cryptocurrencies than tether, […]
In the latest New Money Review podcast, Paul Amery interviews Robert Sams, founder and chief executive of Clearmatics, a technology company based in London. In the podcast, Sams explains why […]
New digital currencies will have a profound impact on our concept of money, the financial system and the economy, says a top regulatory lawyer. “It’s possible for something to be […]