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Cordon off and shut down DeFi, says US law professor

February 21, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Decentralised finance (DeFi) resembles the unregulated ‘shadow banking’ whose unruly growth triggered the 2008 financial crisis. And regulators need to move fast to avoid a repeat of the crash, says […]

India’s digital currency leap

February 18, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Over the last decade India has undertaken arguably the most ambitious digitisation programme of any country in the world. Its so-called ‘India stack’—a public digital infrastructure that allows governments, businesses, […]

Binance regains access to key financial infrastructure

February 16, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance today regained access to the UK’s Faster Payments system, which enables 24/7 real-time sterling payments of up to £1m. Binance is using UK-based electronic money institution Paysafe […]

BlockFi lied to retail clients about lending risks

February 14, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency deposit-taker and lender BlockFi made materially false and misleading statements on its website about the risks facing smaller clients, the US securities regulator said today. According to the Securities […]

Blockchain settlement risks threaten financial system

February 8, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Last week’s $320m Wormhole hack raises serious questions about contagion risks between crypto and the broader financial markets. $320m of disappearing ether On February 2, an attacker exploited faulty code […]

India moves forward with digital rupee

February 2, 2022 Comments are Disabled

India’s government said yesterday it plans to launch a digital version of its national currency later this year or in 2023. The country’s finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, said in her […]

Dark Money

February 1, 2022 Comments are Disabled

In the last decade we’ve seen four massive leaks of data from offshore financial centres: the Panama, Paradise and Pandora papers and the FinCEN files. No-one knows who leaked this […]

Just rubble from the crypto bubble

January 24, 2022 Comments are Disabled

In the latest New Money Review podcast, technologist Martin Walker tells Paul Amery how the cryptocurrency bubble has wasted huge amounts of capital and is only one of several interconnected […]

Fed suggests ID-based digital dollar

January 21, 2022 Comments are Disabled

The US central bank has set out its thoughts on a possible future digital currency (CBDC) in a widely awaited discussion paper, released yesterday. In the paper, the Federal Reserve […]

Russia’s central bank wants outright ban on cryptocurrency

January 20, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Russia’s central bank, the Bank of Russia, has called for a ban on cryptocurrency, including the issuance, trading, investment in and mining of these digital assets. In a 37-page consultation […]

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