Today’s dramatic collapse in the oil price is the latest confirmation of an economic slump that central banks and governments appear powerless to halt. Benchmark oil prices, measured by the […]
Leaked prototypes of China’s new central bank digital currency (CBDC) suggest the country will use mobile phone-based money to challenge US control of the global financial system. According to media […]
Bitcoin poses a revolutionary challenge to conventional models of financial governance, says a University of Luxembourg researcher. Financial market infrastructures—or ‘FMIs’, for short—are the most heavily regulated part of the […]
Earlier today, in an attempt to combat the business slump caused by the coronavirus, the UK tore up the economics textbooks by embracing direct central bank financing of the government’s […]
For anyone working in the financial markets of G20 countries, ‘compliance’ means adherence to a set of laws and regulations governing who can have access to the financial system. Compliance […]
Tokens—smart digital claims on assets—are going to completely remake financial markets, predicts author and technologist David Birch. Meanwhile, China’s state-backed digital currency experiment could accelerate a global power shift from […]
It’s a hat trick. With uncanny timing, Robert Shiller has done it again. The Nobel prize-winning Yale University professor warned of irrational exuberance at the peak of the 2000 dot.com […]
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin operate in a radically different way to the banking system, and they are generating new forms of investigative work. Anyone with a bank account has an IBAN […]
A breakdown in the supply chain for deliveries of physical gold is causing a dramatic deterioration in the liquidity of the wholesale gold market. According to Ross Norman, a commentator […]
A few minutes or two days? In dangerous financial times, the time it takes to settle a transaction—exchange cash for goods—is vital. Now gold market participants are using new tech […]