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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 […]

Two tribes inch together

October 3, 2019 0 comments

They may not be at war, but relations between the traditional finance and cryptocurrency/blockchain camps have long been marked by mutual suspicion. A year ago, Sibos, which describes itself as […]

The world’s riskiest industry

October 1, 2019 0 comments

If you thought investing in cryptocurrencies was risky, try making them. An estimated 4.3 million bitcoin mining machines around the world now perform around 82 exahashes (million trillion hashes) per […]

China’s central bank tries to cool digital currency fever

September 29, 2019 0 comments

China’s central bank head sought last week to head off speculative fever regarding the launch of a new state-backed digital currency. Intense investor interest in China’s financial technology (fintech) sector […]

Payments to determine banks’ future

September 24, 2019 0 comments

According to some fintech firms, large banks do have a future. It’s just as a low-value provider of the transaction data that they, the highly rated tech specialists, will exploit. […]

Google’s quantum discovery makes waves

September 24, 2019 0 comments

For years, scientists have been battling to build a computer that exploits one of the strangest areas of modern science—quantum physics. Now Google claims to have achieved a breakthrough by […]

Digital renminbi to challenge the dollar’s reserve status

September 23, 2019 0 comments

Central banks around the world have so far been reticent about issuing their own digital currencies. But there’s one major exception: China, the world’s largest trading nation. Earlier this month, […]

The battle over money printing rights

September 14, 2019 0 comments

Last week, France’s finance minister slammed Libra, Facebook’s proposed payments coin, for encroaching on a key area of national power. Bruno Le Maire said his country would block the development […]

Facebook splits UK, EU on payments

September 12, 2019 0 comments

Facebook’s new payment initiative, Libra, is already causing discord between policymakers in the UK and those in other European Union countries. Libra, which is heavily backed by Mark Zuckerberg’s social […]

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