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The recent SEC decision on the ETF for the Winklevoss Fund had several communities around the world abuzz and bought to light Bitcoins and “altcoins” . Ever since its inception in 2008, Bitcoin the p...
Corporate bond trading platforms are in the news again. Platforms that have launched innovative all-to-all trading protocols are attracting buy-side firms to their venues. Despite skepticism a few yea...
There are two ways to look at the future, the first assumes a linear progression from past achievements and is relevant to forecasting short periods of time, where the future is a derivative of the
It’s been 20 years since Lastminute.com turned the travel industry upside down. Now Airbnb has done it again. Google, Apple and Here have long since done to TomTom what TomTom itself did to the paper ...
Known as the currency of the Internet, bitcoin - the distributed, worldwide, decentralised digital money - has been dominating the news in recent times. However, now garnering just as many column inch...
By Andrey Borisenkov, CDO ADVAPAY When choosing the jurisdiction for future payment business it is necessary to consider a large number of different aspects: these are license cost, license acquisiti...
The financial services industry is undergoing major changes. Due to the fast pace of advancements in digital technology, changing customer expectations, and competition from disruptors (mobile network...
'Technical Debt' - Making sense of the Metaphor In 1992 Ward Cunningham - the man who created the first Wiki coined a metaphor called 'Technical Debt' . The term later went on to be called 'Code Debt...
Money may make the world go around, but for many Brits it’s making their heads spin. In fact, according to research by price comparison website MoneySuperMarket, a fifth of UK adults admit that their...
It is 417 years this April since the Dutch arrived in Japan with their black ships. Trade with Japan was opened up and, as they say, the rest is history. The Dutch are about to make history again. Th...
Increasing overhead and declining margins can drive an organization to the realization that a turn towards cost take-out strategies such as outsourcing might be the answer to improve their bottom line...
A week before President Trump’s inauguration the CFTC approved a proposal to amend the record keeping requirements contained in Regulation 1.31. The changes were an interesting precursor to the Trump...