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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
Cryptocurrency has completely changed the way people approach currency trading and market regulations in general. While the concept is still relatively new to some people it has become one of the most popular talking points for everyone involved in finance and technology. Most countries are on the journey towards creating a crypto friend environme...
28 January 2020 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
In my last Blog I suggested that regulation of the crypto markets would be one of the main issues for 2020 and beyond. There seem to be urgent need for more clarity on many cryptocurrency issues. The EU Fifth ALM Directive came into effect early January, while ESMA announced its plans to develop a legal framework for cryptocurrencies in 2020. In t...
20 January 2020 /crypto Blockchain Observations
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
The EU's Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (“5AMLD”) will subject certain participants in the crypto-asset sector to regulation for anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) compliance purposes. While it most crypto-asset companies will not be ready to comply by 10 January 2020 (the date EU member states are required to...
07 January 2020 /regulation /crypto The future of Payments in Europe
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