In the final stage of his odyssey through cryptos, digital tokens and currencies, our communications director, award-winning journalist Martin Baker, draws some sobering conclusions and reveals his own plans for potential future investment in this volatile sector. The conventional wisdom nowadays is that cryptocurrencies have moved beyond being tools of criminality. From what I see, […]
Martin Baker, award-winning journalist and head of communications at Money&Co., comes to some conclusions on cryptos, digital currencies and NFTs. “I can tell if a cryptocurrency is going to go up or down. All I have to do is look at it. Why? Because I’m young.” George, aged 18, speaking at the time of the […]
Regular visitors to this News section will be aware that we believe 2021 is set to be the year the token. On the back of the resurgent strength of cryptocurrencies, digital money has been gaining acceptance from the mainstream. The story below cold be seen as this century’s version of a rights issue. Finextra reports: […]
As part of our early-year focus on tokenisation and the game of catch-up being played by central banks to launch their own digital currencies (CBDCs) and related systems of regulation, we offer an excerpt from a news story by or friends at Finextra: An investigation into the use of multiple wholesale CBDCs for cross-border payments […]
Digital financial systems – “digital money” for want of a better phrase – will dominate the future, as we’ve regularly opined here in our News section. Close to 80 percent of the world’s central banks are either not allowed to issue a digital currency under their existing laws, or the legal framework is not clear, […]
As previously reported here, in the short term, we’ll see plenty of digital token launches this year. In the longer term, the very nature of what we understand by money is changing. Interoperable programmable money, anyone? A think piece in Crowdfundinsider is over this one… Money is the foundational layer of any economy. It provides […]
As reported in the Money Matters blog at the end of the year, tokenisation looks to be a massive area of growth for the Fintech sector in 2021. For the next few days, we’ll be focusing on this exciting area. Our friends at Finextra offer this report: Top US banking regulator, the Office of the […]
For years now, it’s been possible to buy a train ticket in Switzerland at a machine that deals in fiat currency and Bitcoin. Japanese employees have been able to opt for part of their remuneration to be in Bitcoin or other digital tokens. Now, the parallel alternative system comes a step closer to the mainstream. […]