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BoE Chief Economist: Blockchain-based Digital Currency Issued by Central Banks Could Replace Cash
September 29th, 2015
In a talk given at the Portadown Chamber of Commerce in Northern Ireland on September 18, Andrew G Haldane , Chief Economist at the Bank of England (BoE), has hinted at the possibility that the U.K. government might issue a digital currency. Though ...
Blockchain Identity: Solving the Global Identification Crisis
September 28th, 2015
Bitcoin and the underlying technology of the blockchain has become a pretty important invention of our time. The cryptocurrency application itself has given us a sketch of new meanings that apply to money and mediums of exchange. The blockchain ...
From ZIRP to NIRP
September 25th, 2015
The sudden end of the Fed’s ambition to raise interest rates above the zero bound, coupled with the FOMC’s minutes, which expressed concerns about emerging market economies, has got financial scribblers writing about negative interest rate policies (NIRP). Coincidentally, ...
VC Head Believes Israel will Lead Blockchain App Industry
September 25th, 2015
The managing director of Santander Group’s venture capital firm believes that Israel will become a reference market for blockchain applications. Mariano Belinky, who has recently invested in an Israel-based payment application, expressed his faith in the technologically advanced nation, ...
CFTC Settles with TeraExchange LLC
September 25th, 2015
CFTC Settles with TeraExchange LLC, a Swap Execution Facility, for Failing to Enforce Prohibitions on Wash Trading and Prearranged Trading in Bitcoin Swap The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges ...
Arcadia-based company under investigation, councilman’s connections under scrutiny
September 21st, 2015
State and federal agencies are investigating an Arcadia-based company that is facing allegations from investors that it swindled them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and may have taken more from individuals overseas. Officials with the Department of ...
Algorithmic markets would save us from another financial crisis
September 21st, 2015
As the world recovers from yet another international stock-market roller-coaster — an outright crash probably only prevented by safety algorithms installed after the Singapore flash crash of 2013 — it might be helpful for us to remember a couple ...
Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al
September 16th, 2015
Nine of the world’s biggest banks from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia Pacific have agreed to join a partnership to divine a set of common standards and practices towards constructing a shared digital ledger system for financial ...
UBS reveals its interest in Sidechains as well as Ethereum
September 15th, 2015
There is an air of confidence about UBS at this time concerning the bank’s exploration of distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. Recently, UBS demonstrated how a bond could be automated on a blockchain, the shared ledger system similar ...
PayPal to Close its Operations in Puerto Rico amidst Government Capital Control
September 9th, 2015
Puerto Rico has recently used legislation to force capital controls. The country has imposed a 2% fee on any money transmission, forcing Paypal’s to pull out of the country. Following an attempt to start capital controls, Puerto Rico government passed a ...
