From a recent News item – a moment of digital reflection… Irresistible forces and immovable objects have a fair bit of history. Inevitably, the irresistible force ends up the winner. In FinTech, cryptos are the coming thing. And nothing, it seems, can stop them. The UK’s top financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is […]
The mainstream media is styling today as the fifth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The immediate investment knock-ons include the Russian rouble’s fall to an historic low against the dollar, and UK and international equity indices falling back. Bitcoin, seen by many as an investment hedge, is showing a gain of around four percent […]
Ahead of our much-heralded (on this News site, at least) suite of new loan offerings, we bring news of the latest bit of integration between the mainstream and the world of crypto. Our friends at Finextra report: Crypto exchange and mobile banking platform hi has teamed up with BaaS player Contis on a debit card […]
Statism and entrepreneurism make uneasy bed fellows. Part of the problem is the difficulty of government remaining hands off while also providing stimulus. Our friends at Finextra report on the FinTech sector’s impatience at the state’s benign attempts to create the a benign environment for growth. In an open letter to the UK Government, almost […]
Ahead of the arrival of a suite of loan offerings – coming soon – we bring you more from the “creeping crypto” school of news. Our friends at Crowdfundinsider report on the latest step in the integration of cryptocurrencies and “mainstream” life: The team at Fintech Deel notes that if your business holds money in stablecoin USDC, […]
The relentless march of digital currencies continues. We run an extended excerpt from our friends at Crowdfundinsider on the proposed launch of a pan-European central bank digital currency. As pointed out several times on this News site, and in our blogs, a CBDC is a digital token, not a cryptocurrency. That has ramifications for oversight, […]
Irresistible forces and immovable objects have a fair bit of history. Inevitably, the irresistible force ends up the winner. In FinTech, cryptos are the coming thing. And nothing, it seems, can stop them. The UK’s top financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is reduced to little more than whining in this report from our […]
It seems that things have moved on, in a positive way, from the publication of the Kalifa Review early last year. We reported here on Kalifa’s findings at the time. Now the strength of the UK FinTech offering is widening its powerbase from London to other parts of the UK. Our friends at Altfi report […]
In Japan, it’s been possible to have monthly salaries partially paid in Bitcoin since well before the cryptocurrency’s first big price spike at the $20,000 level in December 2017. As regular visitors to this News site will know, we see cryptos as a key component of the financial future. But the new, new thing is […]
Cryptos are making their way onto our screens and into our wallets… Our friends at Altfi report two developments. The first is an infrastructure fund, which does not invest directly into cryptos but in the companies that service the industry (exchanges and the like). The second is a more sophisticated play directly into Bitcoin and […]