New technology offers a massive boost to the resiliency, accessibility and transparency of the financial system, says Alex Batlin, CEO of Trustology, our guest in the latest New Money Review […]
Everyone outside the country is expecting the arrival of China’s new sovereign digital currency. President Xi has recently been singing the praises of blockchain technology, the infrastructure for the new […]
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 […]
Fintech is not just about finance and technology. It’s the trade war between Trump and China. It’s about politics, history and culture. It’s the battle over privacy and money laundering. […]
From investment banks to broker-dealers, asset managers, clearing houses, custodians and securities depositaries, almost every segment of traditional finance is now under threat from blockchain technology. That’s the key message […]
The New Money Review podcast offers you a 30-minute insight into the future of money. In our latest podcast, Shamir Karkal, fintech entrepreneur and chief executive of Sila, talks about regional […]
One intriguing aspect of bitcoin is the way it makes explicit the cost of running a monetary system. Bitcoin mining requires a lot of energy: nearly as much as Switzerland, […]
One of the best business books of recent years, ‘How Music Got Free’, by Stephen Witt, tells an engrossing tale of obsession, music, obscene money, visionaries, criminals and tycoons. […]
Several blockchain initiatives aiming to reform the system of ownership for the world’s share and bond markets have just hit road bumps. One project, SETL, has said it is putting […]
If there’s one obvious use case for distributed ledger or ‘blockchain’ technology, it’s in providing the future accounting systems for the world’s share and bond markets. At a stroke, shared […]