Privately issued stablecoins—digital money backed by fiat currency like the US dollar—won’t work in the long term as they lack the government support implicit in central bank money, say researchers […]
Banks should get into the lucrative cryptocurrency custody business soon or risk failing to exploit a key competitive advantage, say Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and law firm White & Case […]
The US government disclosed today that it had seized over $1bn of bitcoin from an unidentified individual who had stolen the cryptocurrency by hacking the Silk Road dark net website […]
Facebook’s ‘Libra’ digital currency project combined incompetence and arrogance and was bound to fail, says David Gerard, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Gerard, a technology expert […]
Jack Ma, the co-founder and chairman of Chinese technology giant Alibaba, has attacked the Basel regulatory framework for the global banking system, calling it a hindrance to development. The Basel […]
As they grapple with the anarchic growth of digital assets, regulators and policymakers around the world have been trying to bring some order to the frenzy. In the wake of […]
Governments around the world are preparing to upgrade their national money from the paper to the digital era. Some argue the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) will mark […]
The global cryptoasset market is growing fast, but it’s one of the most opaque areas of finance. Now the world’s academic institutions are gearing up to map the sector. The […]
Guest post: by Anish Mohammed and Tarun Wadhwa The average cryptocurrency investor is about to gain access to a powerful suite of tools and opportunities that are currently only available to […]
Automated borrowing and lending transactions on cryptocurrency networks have soared this year. Is this yet another crypto bubble or is there a signal behind the noise? Where did DeFi come […]