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Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
One of the recent promising blockchain trends is the growth of Blockchain-as-a Service (BAAS) platforms and software. This is highlighted by the recent release of the Second Annual Blockchain 50 list by Forbes. Several of the entrants on this year’s list offer blockchain-as-a-Service, including global players such as Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. The...
14 May 2020 /crypto Blockchain Observations
In response to a call last year October by the G20 to examine regulatory issues raised by so-called global stable coin arrangements and to advise on multilateral responses ‘as appropriate’, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) recently published ten high-level recommendations for consultation for effective regulatory and supervisory treatment of st...
30 April 2020 /regulation /crypto Blockchain Observations
Saurabha Sahu Senior Solution Consultant at Wipro Limited
Humans are ready to spend a skyrocketing cost for their own health or even towards the near and dears. Today the Healthcare industry is plagued by exponentially rising the cost of hospitals, insufficient practices as well as breaching the patient data or records. These expensive problems are impelling towards an innovative, immutable solution. Re
27 April 2020 /crypto /markets Blockchain Observations
Retired Member
The futuristic utopia that technological progress promises is coming ever closer at an astonishing pace, yet unseen challenges, have surfaced during the COVID-19 virus outbreak. The pandemic has managed to plunder and destabilize the world in just the last few months, putting in danger not only lives, but economic boundaries, well-established glob...
08 April 2020 /crypto /covid-19 Cryptocurrency Insights
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
These are confusing times for everyone both mentally and financially. While the stock market is crashing and governments are spending trillions trying to salvage the situation caused by the coronavirus, cryptocurrency has been sort of hanging in the air. At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin, the most famous and mainstream cryptocurrency out there...
27 March 2020 /inclusion /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Throughout the week, steady low level activity has been visible regarding digital currencies globally. It's only Tuesday, but the cross-border public policy arena has suddenly become much more welcoming to cryptocurrency and, particularly, stablecoin issuers. We saw a similar shift in Greece during the crisis years (before crypto was a thing): g...
25 March 2020 /payments /crypto Digital Asset Class (DAC)
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Deposit Cash, Get Arrested! Banking has evolved more in the last few years than in the last few decades. The main reason is technology closely followed by regulation. The famous statement that “Cash is King” is no more! Banks, due to regulation and to limit their own risk, have been working with government to limit our usage of cash. A good examp...
10 March 2020 /crypto /covid-19 Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
It’s no surprise that the 5th Money Laundering Directive tightened up on the cryptocurrency sector in the EU, finally catching up with the US. There has been a void in regulations in this sector which has certainly enabled bad actors to avoid appropriate checks and allowed fraud and other criminal activity to steam ahead using this currency. Both ...
09 March 2020 /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Cryptocurrencies had a great year in many respects. For the first time, large banks started collaborating with cryptocurrencies and considered the idea that this form of payment might actually be here to stay for a long time. We also saw a lot of resistance from the governing bodies and regulators that don’t want to see that change happen and woul...
03 February 2020 /crypto /crime Law and Finance
Roberto Garavaglia Independent Advisor at Innovative Payments & blockchain Strategic Advisor
A complete analysis of token definitions, their main uses, the future of decentralized applications and token-economy, in an evolutionary path that goes beyond the 3.0 paradigm, crosses that of Industry 4.0, to attain a Society 5.0 concept. These are the contents of this article that, starting from the examination of the term “token”, very often c...
01 February 2020 /crypto Blockchain Observations
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