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Paul Moukhin Partner at BDC Consulting
In the wide expanse of the digital financial universe, cryptocurrencies shine as pioneering assets, challenging the traditional framework of economics and ushering a shift in financial transactions. They are the vanguard of financial innovation, democratizing monetary power through decentralization, and introducing an unprecedented level of transp...
03 August 2023 /crypto
Mousser Rahmouni Head of Strategic Partnerships at Striga
If you're interested in offering your users a more convenient way of managing their crypto assets, consider utilizing a card-issuing platform from a reliable provider that offers seamless and secure solutions. With partnerships and integrations with major card networks and issuing banks, this platform makes it easy to issue customized virtual car...
01 August 2023 /payments /crypto
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
With the Consultation Paper on Technical Standards for the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) aims to collect views, comments, and opinions from stakeholders and market participants on the appropriate implementation of the regulation. The paper comprising the "1st package" cov...
14 July 2023 /regulation /crypto
Arijit Goswami Innovation Manager at Capgemini
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a digital form of central bank money that is issued by a country's central bank and backed by the government. It is an innovative digital payment system that is gaining popularity among central banks worldwide. CBDCs have the potential to transform the financial system in many ways, including how insurance i...
02 June 2023 /retail /crypto
Retired Member
A few weeks ago, the Treasury's consultation into the Regulatory Regime for Cryptoassets closed. First published back in February, the consultation asks for views on the Government’s intended regulations of cryptoassets. This is the second main stage in crypto regulation – moves to regulate stablecoins, where used as a means of payment, are alread...
30 May 2023 /payments /regulation
Todd Crosland Founder and CEO at CoinZoom
Born partly in reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, cryptocurrency was created as a radical alternative to the traditional financial industry. Rewind 15 years: banks that were “too big to fail” had failed and subsequently caused mass panic across the globe. These institutions that held most of the population’s money, lent out trillions of dollar...
12 May 2023 /inclusion /crypto
Cryptocurrency Ethereum, in early 2021 processed over one million transactions a day, a figure that stayed relatively stable in recent years. It is a meteoric growth, given its humble beginnings in August 2015. The use of digital tokens and decentralised systems powered by blockchain technology has exploded over the years, giving rise to issues li...
10 May 2023 /crypto
The recent approval of the Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) by the European Parliament marks a significant milestone in the regulation of the crypto-assets industry in Europe and beyond. MiCA will establish the first harmonized and comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto-assets and related services and activities in Europe, whic...
07 May 2023 /crypto
Some of the world's biggest brands are already involved - Nike, Disney, Budweiser, Warner Music and Starbucks. What exactly? Well, as Harvard Business Review put it, the “confusing, contested, exciting, utopian, scam-ridden, disastrous, democratizing, (maybe) decentralized world of Web3.” So, what's the hype all about? The term, first coined by Et...
05 May 2023 /inclusion /crypto
Kyla Curley Partner at StoneTurn
Stablecoins are designed to be stable and immune from the price volatility that plagues their crypto brethren. This makes stablecoins an integral part of the crypto ecosphere and an illustration for the use case of digital assets for business transactions, payment systems, and treasury functions. Stablecoins provide accessible on- and off-ramps be...
04 April 2023 /crypto /markets
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