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Crypto’s wildfire growth creates run risks

October 13, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The incredible boom in fintech and crypto banking is eroding long-standing protections for depositors and creating wider systemic risks. Deposit insurance and depositor preference If you deposit money in a […]

Tether dominates bitcoin trading

October 11, 2021 Comments are Disabled

How much bitcoin trading takes place in ‘real money’? Not much. Most is hermetically sealed within the crypto ecosystem. Over two thirds of all bitcoin trading activity takes place in […]

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 […]

Fighting the crypto scammers

October 5, 2021 Comments are Disabled

“We’ve never been so busy,” says Nick Furneaux, a digital forensic investigator who specialises in cryptocurrency crime. Furneaux, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast, works with law […]

Twitter launches bitcoin tipping

September 24, 2021 Comments are Disabled

US social media giant Twitter is expanding its Tips feature to include the leading cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Twitter, which has over 200 million users, introduced Tips in May. “We’re making it […]

GFC reversed six-decade global banking boom

September 20, 2021 Comments are Disabled

International banking business has shrunk since the financial crisis of 2008, reversing a six-decade trend of increasing globalisation, according to new research from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In […]

UK payment firms under money laundering scrutiny

September 16, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Last year’s dramatic collapse of German payments firm Wirecard was the biggest accounting scandal since the Enron failure, two decades earlier. But according to Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation fighting […]

Don’t fall for crypto FOMO, warns FCA head

September 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The head of the UK financial services regulator has issued a stark warning about the risks facing retail investors in cryptocurrency, saying that social media channels are amplifying the danger. […]

Crypto payment cards may be unsafe—but not in the way you think

August 9, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Payment cards linked to cryptocurrencies are booming. But they combine a new technology (crypto) and an old one (card payment networks). In this guest post, payments security researcher Timur Yunusov […]

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 […]

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Crypto’s wildfire growth creates run risks

Tether dominates bitcoin trading

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Twitter launches bitcoin tipping

GFC reversed six-decade global banking boom

UK payment firms under money laundering scrutiny

Don’t fall for crypto FOMO, warns FCA head

Crypto payment cards may be unsafe—but not in the way you think

BIS warns of bigtech takeover of finance

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