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Jack Land Head of Marketing & UK Growth at MetaWealth
The tokenisation of real-world assets (RWAs) is gaining serious momentum in 2025, with industry experts predicting that $50 billion in total RWA on-chain value will be reached this year. Converting ownership of real-world assets such as bonds, real estate or commodities into digital tokens on a blockchain enhances liquidity and transparency. Finan...
19 February 2025 /wealth /crypto Innovation in Financial Services
Eli Talmor CEO at ID-Bound
DeFi - Addressing the Limitations of Traditional Finance. DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, aims to tackle several problems users face with traditional financial systems: Limited Access: Traditional finance often excludes people due to geographical location, credit history, or minimum balance requirements. DeFi, built on blockchain techn
17 February 2025 /crypto /markets DeFi
Nkahiseng Ralepeli VP of Product: Digital Assets at Absa Bank, CIB.
Counterfeit goods are a global plague, infiltrating every industry from luxury fashion and electronics to pharmaceuticals and automotive parts. According to the OECD, with an estimated value of $500 billion annually, counterfeiting accounts for 2.5% of global trade, damaging economies, eroding trust, and, in some cases, putting lives at risk. Yet,...
17 February 2025 /crypto /predictions
The past few weeks have been a full-blown policy rollercoaster, with digital assets at the centre of Washington’s grand rebranding effort. Keeping up has been like trying to drink from a firehose—regulatory shifts, new leadership, and legislative proposals flying in from every direction. As someone who spends a lot of his time looking at blockchai...
14 February 2025 /regulation /crypto
Alyse Killeen Managing Partner at Stillmark
Bitcoin (BTC) has enjoyed a meteoric recent rise in value, but the real story behind its surge is the rapid evolution of its infrastructure—most notably bitcoin’s blockchain and payment network, the Lightning Network. Bitcoin’s true potential is emerging in its ability to power two transformative sectors of the next decade: artificial intelligen...
12 February 2025 /crypto Bitcoin payments
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Cryptocurrencies have become a polarizing topic, with passionate supporters and critics each holding strong opinions. Regardless of where one stands, it’s hard to deny the technological marvel that underpins these digital assets. Cryptocurrencies present a compelling alternative to traditional currencies, as demonstrated by the growing interest f
10 February 2025 /payments /crypto Bitcoin payments
This year’s Mining Indaba got me thinking—not just about the scale of South Africa’s mineral wealth but about the systems that underpin the industry. Mining is the backbone of the economy, contributing 7.5% of GDP and employing nearly half a million people, yet it remains impact—in part anyway—by inefficiencies, disputes, and opaque supply chains. ...
07 February 2025 /crypto /predictions
Nick Jones CEO at Zumo
The global crypto sector stands at a regulatory crossroads, and the financial world is watching closely. That was one of the big takeaways from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos, Switzerland, where experts explored how Donald Trump’s pro-crypto stance is expected to lead to new regulation in the US, which will likely prompt o...
31 January 2025 /regulation /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Retired Member
Introduction As businesses increasingly move towards digital transformation, payment solutions are crucial to ensuring smooth financial transactions. White-label payment gateways have emerged as a key offering in this domain, enabling businesses to offer customized, branded payment solutions without the complexities of developing a system from scr...
28 January 2025 /payments /crypto Financial Inclusion
When Elon Musk tweets, the world listens—often with raised eyebrows and a dash of scepticism. But his recent move to invite blockchain leaders to discuss how blockchain technology could be better utilised in governance sparked something entirely different for me: a revisitation of my Oxford MPP research on how blockchain could revolutionis
28 January 2025 /crypto /predictions
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