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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 […]

CBDCs may be illegal in 4/5 of the world

January 15, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Many observers argue that the imminent arrival of central bank digital currency (CBDC) could herald the biggest shake-up to the world’s monetary system for nearly a century. But, say the […]

Negative rates will shake up society

June 11, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Most of us are so used to the concept that saved money grows by earning a positive rate of interest that the idea of negative interest rates comes as a […]

UK ponders negative rates on e-cash

March 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

When trying to stimulate economies by imposing negative interest rates, central banks run into a problem: they can’t stop money leaking out of the banking system and into cash. Around […]

Cash isn’t disappearing yet

November 5, 2019 0 comments

Despite the rapid rise of digital payments, cash isn’t on its way out yet. That’s the key message from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which published its annual ‘Red […]

The stablecoin race

October 9, 2019 0 comments

If you want to get regulators onside to launch a new global payments technology, there’s one place in particular where you need to plead your case. It’s Basel in north-west […]