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John Kiff

Regulating Libra - 0 views

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    "Once Libra becomes well established in some countries, governments will lose control of their money supply and lose monetary policy as a tool of economic expansion or contraction... They will also lose the capacity, in times of severe uncertainty, to impose capital controls to prevent capital flight."
John Kiff

Inside Telegram's secretive TON blockchain network - 0 views

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    The Telegram Open Network, or TON, is Telegram's upcoming Proof-of-Stake network that promises to integrate blockchain payments into its messaging app that serves some 365 million users. If it delivers on promises of high speeds and decentralization, it will be the largest blockchain launch in history.
John Kiff

AssetBlock Tokenizes $60M of Real Estate on Algorand's Blockchain - 0 views

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    Blockchain real estate investment firm AssetBlock partnered with luxury hotel asset manager Lodging Capital Partners to tokenize $60 million of exclusive hotel properties.
John Kiff

Overseeing China's payments revolution - 0 views

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    A series of PBoC rulings in 2017 and 2018 have stopped bigtech payment operators profiting from interest income earned by depositing customers' surplus payment funds. Instead, surplus payment funds now need to be placed with the PBoC and secure no interest in return - it had previously mandated that only certain percentages needed to be held with the central bank. The PBoC asked payment companies to deposit 100% of customer funds with the central bank by January 2019.
John Kiff

Senior CPMI officials meet on stablecoins - 0 views

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    "As a new technology, stablecoins are largely untested, especially on the scale required to run a global payment system," said Mr Cœuré. "They give rise to a number of serious risks related to public policy priorities. The bar for regulatory approval will be high."
John Kiff

Embedded supervision: how to build regulation into blockchain finance - 0 views

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    This BIS paper argues that asset tokenisation and underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT) open up new ways of supervising financial risks. It then puts the case for "embedded supervision", ie a framework that allows compliance with regulatory goals to be automatically monitored by reading the market's ledger, thus reducing the need for firms to actively collect, verify and deliver data.
John Kiff

France, Germany blast Facebook's Libra, back public cryptocurrency - 0 views

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    ECB board member Benoit Coeure said Libra has revived efforts to widen the uptake of the ECB-backed TIPs fast cash project, and that the ECB needs to step up its thinking on a central bank digital currency.
John Kiff

Tethers Cause Traffic Jam on Ethereum - 0 views

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    The Ethereum network has become congested with users complaining transactions are taking hours or in some rare instances, even days, and the culprit appears to be Tether.
John Kiff

Don't be too dependent on capital markets backed retro, Moody's warns reinsurers - 0 views

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    Moody's warns that reliance on retrocession capital is growing but that it considers increased reliance on retrocession to sustain a normal reinsurance underwriting business to be risky and weaken the capital quality of those dependent on it for support.
John Kiff

Central banks to grill Facebook over Libra - 0 views

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    The ECB's Benoît Coeuré will chair a meeting on September 16 at the BIS headquarters in Basel between Libra and the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure. The CPMI side will be represented by officials from 26 central banks, including the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England.
John Kiff

Deutsche Bank joins JPMorgan-led blockchain network - 0 views

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    The JPMorgan Chase-led Interbank Information Network (IIN) will this week announce Deutsche as a new recruit to a network of 320 banks which have agreed to swap information on global payments over blockchain, the mutually distributed ledger technology behind cryptocurrencies.
John Kiff

Bakkt in the (Crypto) Saddle - 0 views

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    "The ICE/Bakkt initiative will prove to be a fascinating case study in inter-exchange competition. Crypto is sufficiently distinctive, and the double-barrel ICE initiative sufficiently innovative, that the traditional betting form (go with the incumbent) could well fail."
John Kiff

Trump Executive Order Banning A Cryptocurrency Could Mutate Into Far-Reaching Law - 0 views

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    The VERDAD Act (Senate Bill 1025) will ban US citizens, permanent residents and organizations from buying, holding, trading or spending the Venezualan Petro. The implications for this could be huge because any crypto-asset could be inserted into this language.
John Kiff

OECD High-level Policy Panel Discussion on Central Bank Digital Currencies - 0 views

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    Central Bank of Chile Governor Mario Marcel: "CBDC does not necessarily need blockchain... When a Central Bank issues its currency,either in physical or digital format, trust should be a given. Also is far from obvious that all market participants should have access to sensitive information such as all transactions in which the CBDC was used.
John Kiff

Committed Settlement: Adoption under UK Law, an analysis by LinkLaters - 0 views

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    With the right legal framework, Committed Settlement can give you the ability to create, record, notify and/or perfect security interests (depending on the jurisdiction) in a fraction of a millisecond - and with minimal cost. With these efficiencies, it may change the way we approach bankruptcy proceedings, collateral and risk management - if not all financial transactions in general
John Kiff

Libra is imperialism by stealth - 0 views

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    "If Libra follows the route of many stablecoins -- including the dominant market player, Tether -- and backs itself with dollar assets (and, it is difficult to see what else it can do but go down that route), then it is nothing but dollarisation by proxy. "
John Kiff

France urges EU rules on cryptocurrencies, warns of Libra risks - 0 views

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    French Finance Minister Le Maire said "a common framework" on digital currencies was needed for the 28 EU countries and urged the creation of a European "public digital currency", without giving more details.
John Kiff

CME Seeks to Double Monthly Bitcoin Futures Open Position Limit to 10K BTC - 0 views

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    The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group is petitioning United States regulators to allow its clients to double their open Bitcoin futures positions.
John Kiff

France shuns Facebook's Libra. How was Libra stupid enough to end up here? - 0 views

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    "Did Libra hire an economist who'd worked at a central bank, or for a government, on serious macroeconomics - someone who could talk to regulators in their own language - at any point since Facebook started looking into cryptocurrencies in 2017? ...You might think "someone who knows how economies tend to work" would have been a useful sort of person to have on the team before the big announcement."
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