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November 25, 2022 Comments are Disabled

We are living in the golden age of fraud. But we’re also in a golden age for data leaks. In the last six years we’ve seen a cascade of confidential […]

The initial reaction from traditional financial markets to the sudden bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX was dismissive. But could high-frequency trading (HFT) firms be the vector for contagion from crypto […]

FTX contagion shuts down BlockFi

November 11, 2022 Comments are Disabled

The fallout from the demise of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has reached the crypto deposit and lending platform BlockFi, which announced at 1.15am GMT on 11 November that it was suspending […]

Crypto crash reaches tether (again)

November 10, 2022 Comments are Disabled

The cryptocurrency crash triggered by this week’s failure of the FTX exchange has now reached the largest dollar token, Tether. As at 12.10 GMT on 10 November, Tether had lost […]

Money meets geopolitics

November 7, 2022 Comments are Disabled

There are periods in human history when money and foreign policy converge—and this is one of them, says Paul Tucker, my guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Tucker, […]

Community money could have a big future

October 27, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Money theorist David Birch thinks we will all live in a world of multiple competing currencies. And communities, says Birch, will be one of the five main future issuers of […]

Central banks’ zero-rate folly

October 13, 2022 Comments are Disabled

By keeping interest rates near zero for over a decade, central banks have created profound economic insecurity and financial fragility. That’s the argument of financial historian Edward Chancellor, guest on […]

Why stablecoins disrupt the financial plumbing

October 6, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Two events in the last fifteen years have fundamentally altered the way the financial system operates—and neither was planned by global policymakers. The great crash of 2008 stopped banks from […]

How the internet went wrong

September 29, 2022 Comments are Disabled

“Competition is for losers,” Paypal founder, early Facebook investor and bitcoin enthusiast Peter Thiel once said. But now the monopoly power of the big tech firms has outgrown even Thiel’s […]

Buy now pay less or…not at all

September 28, 2022 Comments are Disabled

How criminals can profit from shared liability BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) is a type of short-term financing allowing consumers to make purchases and pay at a later date (often […]

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