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Rewiring the financial system

January 5, 2020 0 comments

The global financial infrastructure—a complex network of technical systems provided by central banks, exchanges, clearing houses and securities depositaries—supports trillions of dollars of trading a year and underlies almost all […]

How India leapfrogged the West in payments

December 18, 2019 0 comments

Ten years ago, Indians relied largely on cheques to move money around the country, a legacy of the colonial era. Now India operates the most advanced digital payments system in […]

Bitfinex digs in for New York legal fight

December 17, 2019 0 comments

The battle between New York state prosecutors and the operators of tether, the world’s largest ‘stablecoin’, shows no sign of dying down. In a brief filed on 4 December with […]

CPMI issues report on new settlement standards

December 13, 2019 0 comments

For the regulators in charge of the global financial market’s infrastructure, new technologies are prompting a fundamental rethink of how payments and securities trades are settled. Now the Committee for […]

FX settlement risks on the rise, warns the BIS

December 9, 2019 0 comments

Last week the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Agustín Carstens, made a spirited defence of central banks’ role in the global monetary system. “The monetary and […]

Regulators hit back at BigTech’s finance advantage

December 9, 2019 0 comments

It’s time to level the playing field between technology firms and finance incumbents, say policymakers. Along with healthcare, transport and energy, finance is one of the most heavily regulated sectors […]

WisdomTree slashes fees in bitcoin tracker market

December 4, 2019 0 comments

Asset manager WisdomTree has shaken up Europe’s cryptocurrency tracker market with the launch of a new bitcoin product that undercuts competitors by more than half. On December 3, WisdomTree listed […]

Gates wide open to contactless fraud

December 4, 2019 0 comments

Contactless payments using cards and mobile devices now drive a significant share of global commerce. But security flaws in contactless technology are leaving the doors wide open to fraudsters, claim […]

Facebook’s money moonshot

November 27, 2019 0 comments

Facebook’s Libra project, announced this summer, shook up politicians and regulators by showing how quickly the digital money race is accelerating. To understand what’s going on, we need to look […]

The law for crypto-asset custody

November 25, 2019 0 comments

In developed financial markets, a fundamental principle of the legal regime is that a financial institution’s assets and its clients’ assets are kept separate. That way, if the institution goes […]

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WisdomTree slashes fees in bitcoin tracker market

Gates wide open to contactless fraud

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