The best of both worlds – The central bank digital currency (MNBC), new crypto applications and blockchain bridges are revolutionizing payments of the future. Even the good old system Swift trying to connect to new technologies to offer new services, but above all not to disappear. When the traditional finance of the 80s made an … Read more
by IndustryTrends October 2, 2022 Prior to the economic crash of 2008, a select group of individuals managed funds for the general public in centralized companies. However, the Great Recession changed all that. The general public no longer supported the centralized system and was in dire need of change. Blockchain technology has developed a decentralized … Read more
Decrypt DeFi is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (drawing: Grant Kempster) Last week, Maple Finance, a credit facility-as-a-service platform, announced that it had created a new $300 million loan facility for struggling Bitcoin miners. This means that all those crypto miners struggling to make a profit in the current bear market now have a ready hand. … Read more
The Banque de France yesterday organized a conference on “financial tokenization” to examine cryptocurrencies, the status of decentralized finance (DeFi) and possible regulations. US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde were both invited to attend. The almighty in discussion On Tuesday, central bankers gathered at the Louvre to … Read more
La blockchain est la technologie qui est à la base de plusieurs crypto-monnaies comme le bitcoin. Cette monnaie numérique qui souffle aujourd’hui sa quatorzième bougie est souvent décriée par l’opinion publique et les professionnels du secteur notamment du fait d’une « réalité économique » ambiguë et de son effet néfaste sur le climat. A contrario, … Read more
Women account for less than a quarter of promotions and hires to senior positions in the financial sector, according to a study by law firm Fox and Partners. The firm lists 1,360 women out of 5,800 promotions and hires to senior positions in London’s financial services in 2021; a slight increase from 21% in 2022. … Read more
“Basically, Nova Finance aims to make very complex financial skills accessible to everyone,” says Tom Sichel, co-founder of Edinburgh-based crypto startup Nova Finance. Tom co-founded the company alongside Adam Greenberg with the aim of opening up crypto investing to a new wave of potential investors. For too long, he says, the crypto space has appeared … Read more
Updated 23 Sep. 2022 at 2h16 Launched in 2020, CREAM Finance, a relatively new DeFi protocol, stands out from the many offerings on the market. With one of the largest and most diverse ranges of supported crypto assets in the industry, the protocol has grown in popularity lately and now has a substantial user base. … Read more
Non-fungible tokens are at the heart of all concerns. Would NFTs be potentially dangerous for international security? The subject has been on the lips of web3 regulars since the appearance of terrorist NFTs. This NFT has taken US national security officials by storm. The content of the NFT is similar to what can be described … Read more
The main role is to define the future of independent wealth managers when it comes to digital onboarding. In recent years, blockchain technology has been touted as the next big thing after the creation of the internet. While cryptocurrency prices fluctuate, the underlying technology remains and has evolved. Businesses now have the potential to transform … Read more