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 […]
Earlier this month, the governor of the Bank of England made it clear that customers of electronic money (e-money) firms are less protected against a corporate collapse than customers of […]
When looking at financial markets, we should pay more attention to the physical stuff—the cables, boxes, chips and code—without which those markets wouldn’t exist. That’s because the money infrastructure has […]
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 […]
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, says Europe is falling behind in the global money race and may soon launch a new digital version of the […]
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 […]
The Bank of England governor gets it wrong about a possible return to ‘Wild West’ banking, according to George Selgin, a professor of economics at the University of Georgia. Last […]
Post-Wirecard, the Bank of England has warned it will impose more stringent regulation on the payments sector in order to ensure the safety of the broader financial system. And, it […]
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