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 […]
Investors seeking refuge from the equity market meltdown in gold and bitcoin have so far faced losses. But this is a buying opportunity in both assets, say market observers. Amidst […]
Welcome to the new financial system. Same as the old one? On the face of it, the philosophical differences between centralised and decentralised finance (or ‘CeFi’ and ‘DeFi’, for short) […]
When trying to stimulate economies by imposing negative interest rates, central banks run into a problem: they can’t stop money leaking out of the banking system and into cash. Around […]