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BIS boosts digital currency response

November 11, 2019 0 comments

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 […]

Could governments split bitcoin?

November 8, 2019 0 comments

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 […]

Benchmark risks

November 5, 2019 0 comments

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. […]

Cash isn’t disappearing yet

November 5, 2019 0 comments

Despite the rapid rise of digital payments, cash isn’t on its way out yet. That’s the key message from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which published its annual ‘Red […]

Say goodbye to central bank control

October 28, 2019 0 comments

The US lawmakers who grilled Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg for six hours last week appeared to speak from a position of power. But the tough talk could disguise fundamental weakness. […]

Peter Thiel’s contrarian bitcoin bet

October 18, 2019 0 comments

Building a new bitcoin mine in the middle of Texas, where summer temperatures often reach 50 degrees Celsius, seems a terrible PR move in a world increasingly preoccupied by global […]

Time-stamping gold with bitcoin

October 16, 2019 0 comments

For its supporters, bitcoin is digital gold, providing an immutable historical record of financial transactions. For goldbugs, nothing beats the scarcity and durability of the yellow metal. Now a new […]

Keep your eye on the long road

October 15, 2019 0 comments

The worlds of traditional finance and cryptocurrency/blockchain are still far apart. But we should keep our eyes open for signs of a longer-term convergence between legacy and decentralised finance, says […]

Regulators block social networks’ currency launches

October 14, 2019 0 comments

Regulators are intensifying their efforts to prevent the operators of social networks from launching digital currencies that may subsequently prove hard to dislodge. During the last week, global financial regulators […]

The stablecoin race

October 9, 2019 0 comments

If you want to get regulators onside to launch a new global payments technology, there’s one place in particular where you need to plead your case. It’s Basel in north-west […]

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Regulators block social networks’ currency launches

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