666 Results from /crypto
Eugenie Casier Director of GRC at Clausematch
Crypto had been having a tumultuous season. Still, to see household name FTX fall, came as a surprise to many. The much-discussed cryptocurrency platform was launched in 2019. By 2021, they reported revenues of $1.02 billion, a figure evidence of their exponential growth from $85 million the previous year. That soaring increase meant an exchanged ...
22 November 2022 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Piers Marais Chief Product Officer at Currencycloud
Decentralisation is the buzzword in fintech at the moment – whether that’s sharing data more widely, such as with open banking, or directly using decentralised systems, as with the blockchain. Decentralised finance (DeFi) is one of the latest developments, aimed at democratising access to finance by removing the middlemen that control the flow of ...
17 November 2022 /payments /crypto Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Retired Member
Since the creation of the Mesopotamian shekel, the first known currency minted 5,000 years ago, some medium for exchanging goods and services has existed. People like money so much that our world revolves around its creation and exchange. In 2008, a new currency entered the financial lexicon. This innovation in monetary exchange was based on a pap...
16 November 2022 /regulation /crypto
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Cryptocurrency transactions became extremely popular in 2022 due to the fact that they were incredibly fast and secure. Even though there was a big downfall in prices as well as profits, people still found crypto transactions to be worth their while. The main reason for this is that cryptocurrencies are not regulated by any government or financial...
15 November 2022 /crypto
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
CBDCs – But WHY? Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are being researched by central banks and governments of 87 countries and has already been launched in 11 countries. The key question is: But WHY? What follows is my view of the good, and the evil of CBDCs. CBDCs: the GOOD For you and for other people, the good things bought by CBDCs include...
14 November 2022 /wholesale /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
David Ritter Director, Financial Services Strategy at CI&T
There’s an anonymous quote that circulates social media, often used to lament today’s ‘Age of Undiscovery’ and the drab lack of exploration, and excitement, within: “Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the galaxy.” This may be true in the physical sense. Yet it’s easy to forget our generations are the first to navigate mul...
14 November 2022 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Gian Mahil Director at The FinTechGuys
I never thought I would start a serious blog on cryptocurrencies by mentioning Kim Kardashian. At the beginning of October 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced charges and settlement against Kim Kardashian. The SEC Order found that Ms Kardashian failed to disclose that she was paid USD$250,000 to publish a post promotin...
09 November 2022 /crypto /crime Financial Literacy for Kids
The NFT iGaming industry is still relatively new, and as such, there are not a lot of established regulations. In 2022, however, there was a sudden surge in the popularity of NFT iGaming, and as a result, regulators began to take notice. They started to change the regulations for the industry frequently in order to keep up with the rapidly changing...
09 November 2022 /crypto
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Early October SWIFT launched two publications describing the results of two important experiments, one on interoperability and the other on tokenization. In these publications SWIFT has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies. SWIFT t...
07 November 2022 /crypto Blockchain Observations
Mykyta Grechyna
In view of the recent publishing by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) of the report on the proposed framework for international regulation of the cryptocurrency industry, which was a result of FSB’s research of the topic as was mandated by the G20, some market players also have expressed their thoughts on this hot topic. The FSB’s proposes that ...
01 November 2022 /regulation /crypto Bitcoin payments
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