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Blockchain carries seeds of own destruction

June 7, 2022 Comments are Disabled

The technology behind the last decade’s cryptocurrency boom—blockchain—carries the seeds of its own destruction, say economists at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In a new bulletin, BIS economists Frederic […]

BIS ditches neutrality over Russia

March 12, 2022 Comments are Disabled

When applying sanctions to Russia’s central bank this week, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) made a radical departure from the neutral stance it adopted during the second world war. […]

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 […]

Public infrastructures can prevent big tech money grab

January 11, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Public infrastructures such as government identity schemes and payment systems can help address the risk of a big tech takeover of the digital economy, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) […]

Unstable DeFi could trigger wider crash, warns BIS

December 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The booming decentralised finance (‘DeFi’) market suffers from an existential problem, says the Bank for International Settlements (BIS): it isn’t decentralised. Meanwhile, the contagion risks from DeFi to the rest […]

Blockchain: an insider’s paradise

November 24, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The decentralisation inherent in cryptocurrency networks like bitcoin is valuable for its governance benefits, according to Hyun-Song Shin, head of research at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). But this […]

A 400-year-old stablecoin (and why it failed)

October 21, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to existing money, like the dollar, euro, pound or gold—are the hottest topic in finance. From crypto-market dollars like Tether and Circle to Facebook’s Diem project and […]

Global regulators close in on tether

October 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Global financial regulators say the operators of digital tokens pegged to fiat currencies—stablecoins—must follow the stringent rules for other important financial infrastructures, such as payment systems, central securities depositories, securities […]

BIS warns of bigtech takeover of finance

August 2, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says new public policies are urgently needed to address the growing dominance of large technology firms in financial services. In a bulletin published on […]

Central banks counter bigtechs’ digital money push

June 23, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Central banks are accelerating their planned introduction of new forms of digital money to head off the ambitions of large technology firms in this area. “There is a sense of […]

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Blockchain carries seeds of own destruction

BIS ditches neutrality over Russia

Blockchain settlement risks threaten financial system

Public infrastructures can prevent big tech money grab

Unstable DeFi could trigger wider crash, warns BIS

Blockchain: an insider’s paradise

A 400-year-old stablecoin (and why it failed)

Global regulators close in on tether

BIS warns of bigtech takeover of finance

Central banks counter bigtechs’ digital money push

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