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BIS warns on rise of shadow payments

March 1, 2020 Comments are Disabled

A three-decade global push to tighten anti-money-laundering (AML) rules appears to be running out of road. That’s one conclusion to be drawn from the latest Bank for International Settlements (BIS) […]

Buy more, price goes down: the strange case of bitcoin

February 27, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The unusual incentives built into the bitcoin network mean that the cryptocurrency inverts the laws of economics: the more people buy bitcoin, the more its price goes down. That’s the […]

Wyoming crypto bank to exploit legal split on custody

February 25, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Avanti, a new crypto-asset bank to be based in US frontier state Wyoming, will take advantage of the state’s potentially revolutionary new legal framework for the custody of clients’ crypto […]

The spirit of innovation

February 24, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Money is undergoing unprecedented change: around the world, we see new ways of paying each other, new stores of value, new ways of recording economic activity and new forms of […]

The Anglo-American axis of financial secrecy

February 19, 2020 Comments are Disabled

According to the Tax Justice Network, the US has overtaken Switzerland to take second place in a global ranking of countries most complicit in facilitating illicit financial flows, while the […]

Coinfloor pledges end to bad advice for bitcoin buyers

February 19, 2020 Comments are Disabled

UK-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinfloor says it’s time for intermediaries selling bitcoin to stop misleading retail investors. According to the exchange’s chief executive, Obi Nwosu, retail investors wanting to experience what […]

China’s blockchain—for whose benefit?

February 14, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Everyone outside the country is expecting the arrival of China’s new sovereign digital currency. President Xi has recently been singing the praises of blockchain technology, the infrastructure for the new […]

Leave crypto custody to the professionals

February 10, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Serious long-term holders of bitcoin want to control the private key that gives them ownership of their coins. In practice, many delegate control to specialist custodians like BitGo, which is […]

Token issuers, welcome to the US

February 7, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In a speech delivered yesterday, Hester Peirce, one of the five commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), outlined radical new proposals to make the US a friendlier market […]

What is money laundering?

February 7, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In our latest podcast, Neil Walsh, the Vienna-based head of the Cybercrime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Department at the United Nations, gives an exclusive interview to […]

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