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It’s been a torrid year for investors in cryptocurrency but the worst is not over, says Carol Alexander, my guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. In 2023 the […]
In 2008, a few obscure three-letter financial products—MBS, ABS, CDOs and SIVs—set off the biggest financial crisis in history. Now, could a new alphabet soup of DAOs, NFTs, Dapps, DMMs […]
“In the case of Putin we are in this very dangerous place. We have reacted so aggressively and moved so far, so fast that he is personally humiliated under anything […]
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 […]
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 […]
Binance chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, has denied responsibility for scams conducted across his exchange’s decentralised finance (DeFi) platform, Binance Smart Chain. In a blog published on 4 November, Zhao said […]
The major promise of DeFi is decentralisation. But activity is now shifting to a wholly centralised platform. To an outsider, there are many incomprehensible things about the expanding DeFi craze: […]
Slowly but surely, an alternative financial infrastructure is being built, promising a cheaper, more efficient, stable and transparent way of lending and borrowing, issuing securities and managing money. If that […]
Guest post: by Anish Mohammed and Tarun Wadhwa The average cryptocurrency investor is about to gain access to a powerful suite of tools and opportunities that are currently only available to […]