The word “blockchain” was once used as a marketing gimmick for companies pivoting into an ill-understood, gimmicky world. But blockchain technology is a good way of organising information without reference to a central agent. And that’s now official – the regulatory authorities are using it in an innovative way. Our friends at Finextra report: The […]
The mainstream of financial services is struggling to catch up with the business of popularising a world that’s still seen as arcane – even with Bitcoin, which hit a new peak of $50,000 this week – at its centre. Our friends at Finextra report a significant move forward here. The masses will soon be on […]
Today, we offer a snapshot of one of the things that happens online when big FinTech companies try to manage their growth. Major peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders in the US and Australia are turning to an independent supplier of blockchain technology to minimise fraud. Our friends at AltFi report it this way: More than a dozen […]
There’s a lot of nonsense and hype surrounding cryptocurrencies and its underlying blockchain technology. But there’s also a sensible way ahead – probably involving asset-linked digital tokens using blockchain. These securities (they will be regulated as such) are the coming fashionable wave in alternative finance. We believe they may prove more durable than many cryptocurrencies. […]
Cryptocurrencies are increasingly popular amongst peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms. We can see the virtue of an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in that it can create liquidity where there was one before. The ICO is an interesting animal. But we’ll not be doing an ICO just for the sake of liquidity. At Money&Co. we’re old-fashioned enough […]