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Why does bitcoin cost more in the future?

November 2, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Last year commodity giant Glencore pocketed $1.3bn through a clever trade it made when oil prices briefly went negative. Amidst the coronavirus shock to global trade flows, tankers idled, crude […]

US authorities target stablecoin run risk

November 2, 2021 Comments are Disabled

US authorities are seeking to rein in the financial stability risks created by the runaway growth of the stablecoin market, according to a new report released yesterday. Stablecoins are digital […]

Robinhood’s crypto party ends

October 27, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Robinhood’s infatuation with crypto was short and sweet, if last night’s corporate earnings report is anything to go by. Robinhood shares fall below July IPO price The trading app’s revenue […]

The market at the centre of the world’s financial system—repo—is witnessing record popularity. But it’s always prone to collapse, and now cryptocurrencies are joining the fray. The repo market The […]

A 400-year-old stablecoin (and why it failed)

October 21, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to existing money, like the dollar, euro, pound or gold—are the hottest topic in finance. From crypto-market dollars like Tether and Circle to Facebook’s Diem project and […]

Roll over Satoshi

October 19, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency has turned into an inferior version of the money Satoshi Nakamoto set out to replace. In the first bitcoin ‘block’, the cryptocurrency’s creator embedded a message: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 […]

Crypto’s wildfire growth creates run risks

October 13, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The incredible boom in fintech and crypto banking is eroding long-standing protections for depositors and creating wider systemic risks. Deposit insurance and depositor preference If you deposit money in a […]

Tether dominates bitcoin trading

October 11, 2021 Comments are Disabled

How much bitcoin trading takes place in ‘real money’? Not much. Most is hermetically sealed within the crypto ecosystem. Over two thirds of all bitcoin trading activity takes place in […]

Global regulators close in on tether

October 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Global financial regulators say the operators of digital tokens pegged to fiat currencies—stablecoins—must follow the stringent rules for other important financial infrastructures, such as payment systems, central securities depositories, securities […]

Fighting the crypto scammers

October 5, 2021 Comments are Disabled

“We’ve never been so busy,” says Nick Furneaux, a digital forensic investigator who specialises in cryptocurrency crime. Furneaux, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast, works with law […]

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