Here is our pick of the 3 most important stablecoin stories during the week. Stablecoins and Crypto are stable whilst everything else is volatile! This week, I noticed an interesting thing while researching how successful Binance’s conversion of their customers from USDC to BUSD has been. You may remember a few weeks back, Binance announced it ... Read more ›
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Mark Twain once said that “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” This is certainly true of financial cycles. What all have in common is an attempt to use derivatives and leverage to make something risky appear safe. If you understand the above you are all set and can skip to the end ... Read more ›
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This year has been tough for many companies in the crypto market. Some have collapsed altogether, others have fired a huge number of employees to keep their heads above water and some are going all in on crypto. It’s no secret that in 2022 the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been tumbling, and ... Read more ›
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Revolut shifts trading clients to Lithuania. Blames Brexit It seems that Fintech start up Revolut is moving the hosting of a million of its trading clients from the its UK trading subsidiary to its to Lithuania. Apparently, this is because the UK regulator has not yet granted the outfit a Mifid licence which would allow ... Read more ›
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Here are the most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1  Human rights reporting needs machine readable data The Danish Institute for Human Rights has published a notable discussion paper on sustainability reporting and human rights. It reports on a project which aimed ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important stablecoin stories during the week. China’s CBDC slows, Tether gets T Bills and the USA has an ugly baby! This week we got an update from China on their CBDC, whose uptake has slowed to a crawl, whilst Tether in response to criticism has now put all ... Read more ›
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Binance is the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange. It wasn’t hacked. Hackers stole $570M in tokens from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The hack targeted the BSC Token Hub, which serves as a link between two Binance systems. Binance reported in a blog post that an exploit affecting a cross-chain bridge between their BNB Beacon ... Read more ›
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Here are the most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1  EBA announces 2023 plans, including data access The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its work programme for 2023. The plans include a focus on placing data at the service of stakeholders. The ... Read more ›
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Netscape released cookies technology  28 years ago on October 13, 1994. This spawned a vast industry that some call surveillance advertising (more politely referred to as targeted advertising or behavioural marketing) that powers the Internet that we use every day. The blowback from 28 years of cookies advertising technology will start with 3rd party cookies ... Read more ›
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It’s been two years since I started my first post on dailyfintech.com with, “Hardly anyone would argue that change and innovation are not necessary in insurance. The $5 trillion global insurance industry is large, complex and capital intensive. With various relatively untapped market segments and under-penetrated world regions, the onset of PE/VC investments did herald ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important stablecoin stories during the week. CBDC’s, Hacks and Wrappers!! This week was busy in a number of areas as Innovators keep pushing the envelope and have various slip ups as sloppy code or design are exposed. First on the CBDC front, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ... Read more ›
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I would come back from selling custom software solutions in the City Of London in the 1980s understanding very little. Most customers were not as kind as the man who explained the Gilts market to me. They would rattle on about some new derivative and expect me to understand. Eventually I did understand, but only thanks ... Read more ›
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FrontPage is an expert-curated news service, with clickable news headlines plus a 250 character commentary – news you can trust from experts who have walked a mile in your shoes. Front Page Weaver meets a need in the market because most news services are written by overworked journalists who add very little value beyond the ... Read more ›
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Fast forward to 2140, when all 21 bitcoins are in circulation, what will happen to the network? Will miners continue to secure the network when the reward goes away? The Bitcoin network was created around the principle of controlled supply —only a specific number of Bitcoins are minted each year until the total number of ... Read more ›
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 Do regulators really understand what they are doing? Last weeks market shenanigans were a real sight to behold. The story that shook me was the fact that the rapid rise in interest rates as a result of market overreaction to the economic change of direction signalled had cause interest rates to rise rapidly. We ... Read more ›
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Here are the most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1  What needs to be done on data quality? FRC reviews first mandatory ESEF year The FRC Lab, part of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC), has released a valuable analysis drawing out ... Read more ›
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Lloyd’s Lab announced the companies that join its ninth cohort in its ten-week program, from over 120 applications received. The selected teams won the adulation of an expert panel when presenting their ideas for insurance products and solutions for natural catastrophes, energy and construction. The selected solutions were geared towards new products that help the ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important stablecoin stories during the week. CBDC or Stablecoin or Both?? It seems to me that a major tussle is about to break out between Central Bank stablecoins (or CBDC’s) and privately issued coins such as Circle or Tether. Will the Regulators give themselves a prime seat at ... Read more ›
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In the dire economic climate of the late 1970s, after selling encyclopaedias to American soldiers in Germany, I started looking for the type of work that college graduates are supposed to do. The conversations went like this: Me: “I got a 2.1 in History from Oxford” Employer (stifling a yawn): “Yes, what else have you ... Read more ›
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A week ago, Nayib Bukele opened his speech at United Nations General Assembly, saying: “I bring you greetings from the land of surf, volcanoes, coffee, peace, Bitcoin, and freedom.” Last year, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender. During this time there has been no shortage ... Read more ›
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