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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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August 15, 2022 Comments are Disabled

How to create a debit card using stolen ID details Tim Yunusov, our intrepid hacking correspondent, shows how easy it is to circumvent technology firms’ ID checks–and to spend money […]

Stablecoins come unstuck again

June 13, 2022 Comments are Disabled

The cryptocurrency market turmoil unleashed by the collapse of lending platform Celsius Network is putting dollar stablecoins under renewed pressure. Earlier today Celsius announced that it was pausing all withdrawals, […]

Celsius network collapses

June 13, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency prices plummeted Monday after Celsius Network, a leading token lending platform, said it was suspending all withdrawals. In a memo published on the Celsius Network blog, the platform said […]

Blockchain carries seeds of own destruction

June 7, 2022 Comments are Disabled

The technology behind the last decade’s cryptocurrency boom—blockchain—carries the seeds of its own destruction, say economists at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In a new bulletin, BIS economists Frederic […]

Justin Sun goes where Terra/LUNA failed

May 28, 2022 Comments are Disabled

It’s hard to stamp out a bad idea in cryptocurrency. Shortly before the Terra (UST) stablecoin collapsed earlier this month, destroying most of the $50bn once invested in it and […]

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Buy now pay less or…not at all

The worrying politics of cryptocurrency

North Korea—the new money superpower

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Stablecoins come unstuck again

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Blockchain carries seeds of own destruction

Justin Sun goes where Terra/LUNA failed

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