The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has intervened to halt the public sale of shares in Ant Group, China’s financial technology giant, due to take place later this week. The share […]
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 […]
The recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is proving patchy. It’s prone to conflict, fear and mistrust. And if we don’t fix our flawed digital identity infrastructure, says Bianca Lopes, our […]
Cryptocurrency networks help support a growing volume of dollar transfers taking place outside the traditional financial system. The growth of private stablecoins As central banks around the world debate whether […]
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 […]
A year after it threatened to ban the sale to retail clients of contracts based on bitcoin and other cryptoassets, the UK’s financial markets regulator has put its words into […]
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 […]
Open banking—which allows consumers to link savings, budgeting and faster payments apps with their bank accounts—is leaping ahead in the UK. But consumer protection standards may need to jump to […]
When the UK imposed its first coronavirus lockdown on 16 March, some consumers found they couldn’t get their money back for services they had paid for but were no longer […]
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