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Why Libra was bound to fail

November 5, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Facebook’s ‘Libra’ digital currency project combined incompetence and arrogance and was bound to fail, says David Gerard, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Gerard, a technology expert […]

ECB is preparing for digital euro

September 11, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, says Europe is falling behind in the global money race and may soon launch a new digital version of the […]

Bank of England warns of money Wild West

September 4, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Post-Wirecard, the Bank of England has warned it will impose more stringent regulation on the payments sector in order to ensure the safety of the broader financial system. And, it […]

Rise of the platforms

June 23, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Big tech firms like Google, Facebook, Apple, Alibaba and Tencent want our payments data. Are we right to share it with them? “The entry of BigTechs into the provision of […]

Facebook scales back global currency plans

April 16, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In an updated version of its white paper, released today, the Libra Association says it is scaling back its initial plans for a global payments medium and instead focusing on […]

Say goodbye to central bank control

October 28, 2019 0 comments

The US lawmakers who grilled Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg for six hours last week appeared to speak from a position of power. But the tough talk could disguise fundamental weakness. […]

Regulators block social networks’ currency launches

October 14, 2019 0 comments

Regulators are intensifying their efforts to prevent the operators of social networks from launching digital currencies that may subsequently prove hard to dislodge. During the last week, global financial regulators […]

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 […]

The battle over money printing rights

September 14, 2019 0 comments

Last week, France’s finance minister slammed Libra, Facebook’s proposed payments coin, for encroaching on a key area of national power. Bruno Le Maire said his country would block the development […]

Facebook splits UK, EU on payments

September 12, 2019 0 comments

Facebook’s new payment initiative, Libra, is already causing discord between policymakers in the UK and those in other European Union countries. Libra, which is heavily backed by Mark Zuckerberg’s social […]

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Regulators block social networks’ currency launches

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