Our head of content and communications is publishing a series of articles on the future of finance and the massive impact of the digital world in Byline Times. Here’s an extract from the first piece. Rethinking the nature of money is serious stuff: it is in effect the re-examination of a concept of value exchange […]
As we head to the weekend, here’s a little something on which to ruminate: yet more money – serious money or silly money? You decide – heads to cryptoland from a mainstream finance industry that’s desperate to find out what’s going on and how to make money in the new arena. Our friends at Finextra […]
As we’ve pointed out consistently here in Money&Co.’s News and in the Blog section, 2021 is set to be the year of the digital asset, with the Bitcoin price surge leading a massive resurgence of interest in the area. But for many, the idea of engaging with digital currency remains just that – an idea. […]
Just about everyone’s heard of Bitcoin – but relatively few know how to buy and hold it. Hot and cold wallets, forks, and coin exchanges… It’s all a far cry from calling up a financial adviser and placing an order for a mainstream financial product. The process of change, ie of increasing normalisation, does however […]
You may have missed it, but the annual gathering of the great and the good at the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, is taking place. It’s all happening virtually, ie, online. There have been a couple of amusingly self-deprecating comments from senior journalist bemoaning the loss of endless refreshments. There’s also been some news, notably […]
There’s a big storm brewing over the resurgence of cryptocurrencies. The adoption of Bitcoin as a means of payment by the like of Paypal has prompted some panicky measures by central government and their regulators. Finextra reports a strident move by US authorities: The US Securities and Exchange Commission is gearing up to take enforcement […]
Bitcoin’s crazy journey from high to high is set to have major ramifications. There’s a whole education and training industry shaping up, for example. That’s possibly just a precursor to the massive change we’ll see if digital currencies are generally accepted as a medium of value exchange. But anyway, here’s the latest educational snippet, from […]
Today we bring you more news of the gathering pace of convergence between cryptocurrencies and mainstream finance. This is clearly driven by the price resurgence of flagship crypto, Bitcoin. What’s driving that is another matter… Finextra reports: Asset servicer Northern Trust and Standard Chartered have sought to capitalise on the growing demand for cryptocurrency services […]
The financial universe is shifting shape. And it matters. This change is something we report on regularly in our News section. The advent of cryptocurrencies and digital tokens will change the systems by which we exchange value, and ultimately what we think of as money. All this of course has huge political impact. At the […]
The financial world is in a state of flux. For once, the Pandemic is neither an effect and only arguably a cause. Digital currencies – cryptos – are on the march again. The simple fact remains that with the resurgence of Bitcoin – now approaching its highs of December 2107 – traditional monetary systems are […]