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Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital
Millennials are especially interested in digital assets and are keen to learn more about them, according to Mastercard. 40 per cent of people are planning to use digital assets in the coming year, according to Mastercard's New Payments Index. In particular, 67 percent of millennials said they were more likely to use digital assets now compared to a...
10 June 2021 /payments /crypto Fintech
Retired Member
El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America by area, it is washed over by the Pacific Ocean and often called the land of lakes and volcanoes. An otherwise unremarkable nation went down in history by taking an unprecedented step and adopting bitcoin as legal tender, as announced by President Nayib Bukele on Twitter. The law was passed by ...
09 June 2021 /inclusion /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
NFTs are at the moment a real buzz. The word NFT stands for non-fungible token, which means a unique, irreplaceable cryptographic object. It aims to manage ownership of digital content (digital collectible items) by storing the ownership in the form of a digital certificate on a blockchain (usually on the Ethereum blockchain, but other blockchains...
09 June 2021 /wealth /crypto Blockchain Observations
Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
Being associated only with Bitcoin just 5 years ago, the word “cryptocurrency” had not been known to anyone 12 years ago. In 2021 there are around 2300 varieties of digital currencies. This payment method is steadily moving towards offline and is set to become a full-fledged means of payment alongside fiat currencies. Crypto finances were initiall...
08 June 2021 /payments /crypto Trends in Financial Services
Simon Gegen Financial cloud services and wallet solutions at Holla-Tech
• The way digital assets are being traded is evolving • Centralized services and decentralized platforms are in deep competition • Hybrid CEX and DEX solutions are starting to develop • Trading in the future could look to use a combination of various open-source tech from both CEX and DEX Digital asset trading rose to prominence in the past few
04 June 2021 /startups /crypto Peer-To-Peer
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) may be the next phase of the digital revolution. Tech entrepreneur Rick Falkvinge boldly predicts that “Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.” There’s keen interest in cryptocurrency, and banks need to plan whether and to what extent they will participate. Confusion often surrounds the ...
03 June 2021 /retail /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Karen Hsu CMO at Appdome
National digital currencies have passed from ideas and prototypes into reality. In addition to the Bahamas, China and Sweden, have been running digital currency pilots, and within a few years, we could see dozens of central banks issuing digital currencies. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) differ from cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as n...
02 June 2021 /crypto
The year is 2009. A forum user, under the guise ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, sits down at their computer and is compelled to post something. They (an individual or group) have for years held a deep-seated distrust in centralised financial intuitions; that distrust has now most likely overflowed in to anger as they watch the events of the Global Financial C
02 June 2021 /startups /crypto Blockchain Observations
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
I have co-authored this article with Sean Kiernan, CEO of Greengage (previously DAG Global). What will Britain’s role be as a financial innovation centre, post-Brexit? Our economy depends on it, yet over a year after our official exit from the EU on 31 January 2020, the answer is still not clear. In 2018, we both published a report and article high...
01 June 2021 /regulation /crypto Digital Asset Class (DAC)
Adriana P Trader at Xray Trade
Bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, regulations, governments, bans, unworthy, revolutionary, so many news articles on the topics, none with any real worldwide summary. Each country reacts differently to bitcoin and its technology. The blockchain here is a little résumé of what is currently happening when governments face bitcoin. The fearful ones: Turkey...
31 May 2021 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
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