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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
There’s a country out there that’s invisible to most of us. It’s called Moneyland. This country doesn’t discriminate against outsiders. It’s open to anyone, so long as they can afford […]
Facebook’s ambitious plans for a new cryptocurrency called Libra may be bogged down by heavy government scrutiny and the withdrawal of key partners from the project. But that isn’t stopping […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is boosting its response to innovative financial technology such as cryptocurrency by appointing European Central Bank board member Benoît Cœuré as the head of […]
Governments appear to want to split bitcoin into two. But will they succeed? In June, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a group of 36 governments seeking to address money […]
Financial index data help drive the revenues of many stock and futures exchanges. But calculating an index from market inputs, apparently a straightforward activity, can still be a risky one. […]
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