634 Results from /crypto
Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank
Is blockchain capitalist or socialist? Libertarian or collectivist? Leftwing or rightwing? The answers to the above questions are neither or both, as we shall find out in this article, scraping through the past 2500 odd years of human thoughts in shaping societies, culture, commerce, and thereby relating it to the root paradigm that this technolog...
08 September 2020 /crypto /markets Blockchain Observations
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
1200 words, 4.5 minute read Central bank balance sheets are ballooning the world over, and in parallel, adoption of shared ledgers using blockchain is accelerating. These major shifts indicate the global architecture for money and payments is on the cusp of structural change. Blockchain analysis and debate are dominated by a focus on cryptocurrenci...
08 September 2020 /payments /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Retired Member
As summer of 2020 is coming to an end, the DeFi movement is peaking. With ETH up over 70% in July, the total value locked in leading decentralized finance protocols surpassed $7 billion, making it impossible for both crypto and traditional finance industry not to pay attention. As access to the new internet for developers is simplified through too...
01 September 2020 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Piers Marais Chief Product Officer at Currencycloud
A much more intelligent person than me once saidthat cryptocurrency is “everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers.” This makes me feel dangerously under-qualified writing this post, but it’s worth having a go, right?! A colleague that I have a lot of time for recently asked me what my...
28 August 2020 /inclusion /crypto Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
It’s very hard to argue that there has been a better innovation in the fintech industry than blockchain in the last decade. This small but powerful technology has completely changed the understanding of money for many people. However, it is not the perfect innovation that the fintech world was looking for, nor did it ask for it. Sure we may say th...
24 August 2020 /inclusion /crypto Fintech
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Early July I wrote my blog Blockchain and Interoperability: key to mass adoption. There I concluded that “we may say that blockchain seems to be at the threshold of widespread acceptance and adoption”. This conclusion was confirmed by Deloitte’s Third ‘Global Blockchain Survey 2020’ studying the investment and development trends in blockchain techn...
24 August 2020 /crypto Blockchain Observations
Simon Barnby CMO at Archax
There has and continues to be much talk around digital securities or security tokens, which are securities represented digitally on a blockchain. Many advantages are talked about on how they will disrupt financial services and democratise capital markets for everyone. But to what extent are the advantages down to the technology, a renewed way of t...
20 August 2020 /crypto /markets Capital Markets Technology
Based on the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey's comments, there will soon be a decision whether to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the UK. A state-issued digital pound has multiple potential effects on the UK economy. First, between 2006 and 2018, cash usage decreased from 63% to 28%, while debit card payments increased fr...
05 August 2020 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Leon Gauhman Founder and CPO/CSO at Elsewhen
Banks and financial institutions were shockingly slow to respond to the rise of fintech - now they are in danger of making the same mistake with the rapidly emerging crypto banking sector. While legacy players sit on the sidelines, the likes of SEBA and Wirex are racing to develop banking products and services that support the cryptocurrency ecosy...
23 July 2020 /crypto /covid-19 Cryptocurrency Insights
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
The extent of money supply increases needed to facilitate stimulus packages by sovereign central banks to counter the negative effects of the current crisis will dictate the inflationary pressures that ensue. Current world currencies are driven in a large part by expectation value and when confidence wanes there is a flight to alternative stores o...
20 July 2020 /crypto /covid-19 Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
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