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John Kiff

UnionBank and OCBC Pilots Blockchain Based Remittance from Singapore to the Philippines - 0 views

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Fintech CrossBorder PaymentSystems Blockchain

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  • John Kiff on 23 Jul 19
     
    Union Bank of the Philippines recently became the first Philippine bank to successfully pilot blockchain-based remittance from Singapore to the Philippines. This was done in partnership with OCBC Bank, Singapore, using the Adhara liquidity management and international payments platform.
John Kiff

St Louis Fed's Bullard warns about rise of multicurrency systems - 0 views

www.centralbanking.com/...-rise-of-multicurrency-systems

Fintech CryptoAssets

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  • John Kiff on 22 Jul 19
     
    The proliferation of crypto assets may create a multicurrency environment prone to monetary and exchange rate volatility, warned St. Louis Fed President James Bullard. "Cryptocurrencies may unwittingly be pushing in the wrong direction in trying to solve an important social problem, which is how best to facilitate market-based exchange."
John Kiff

Circle Moves Exchange Operations Offshore With New Bermuda Office - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/ustomers-to-new-bermuda-entity

Fintech CryptoAssets TradingPlatforms

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  • John Kiff on 22 Jul 19
     
    Due to mounting regulatory pressures in the United States, the Circle is moving the majority of its exchange operations to Bermuda, where it received a full Digital Assets Business Act license its crypto exchange Poloniex. 70% of Poloniex users hail from beyond the U.S.
John Kiff

Indian Inter-Ministerial Committee on Virtual Currencies Open-Minded on Central Bank Di... - 0 views

dea.gov.in/...n%20VCs%2022%20July%202019.pdf

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  • John Kiff on 22 Jul 19
     
    "The Indian Inter-Ministerial Committee on Virtual Currencies is of the view that it would be advisable to have an open mind regarding the introduction of an official digital currency in India."
John Kiff

Indian Inter-Ministerial Committee on Virtual Currencies Recommends Crypto Ban - 0 views

dea.gov.in/...on%20VCs%2028%20Feb%202019.pdf

Fintech CryptoAssets Regulation

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  • John Kiff on 22 Jul 19
     
    An Indian government panel has recommended banning all private cryptocurrencies and a jail term of up to 10 years and heavy fines for anyone dealing in digital currencies, which could signal the end of them in India.
John Kiff

Facebook user engagement grew through first half of 2019, tools say - 0 views

www.cnbc.com/...st-half-of-2019-tools-say.html

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins Facebook

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  • John Kiff on 22 Jul 19
     
    Facebook has seen an increase in the median number of comments, likes and ads clicked by users on the service from January to July. In the U.S., Facebook users increased their engagement from six comments, nine post likes and 13 ads clicked on Jan. 3 to eight comments, 13 post likes and 17 ads clicked on July 18.
John Kiff

Libra's Biggest Problem - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/libras-biggest-problem

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins Facebook Identity AMLCFT

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  • John Kiff on 22 Jul 19
     
    Hope lies in tools such as zero-knowledge proofs and in emerging "self-sovereign" identity concepts, as well as in a more open-minded regulatory model for curtailing crime - one that doesn't depend on revealing people's personal identifying information. But these are a ways off; they will require user adoption and; to a still large extent, belief in them by policymakers.
John Kiff

A Global Review of the Regulatory Considerations Relating to Crypto-Asset Trading Platf... - 0 views

www.mccarthy.ca/...crypto-asset-trading-platforms

Fintech CryptoAssets Liquidity Regulation TradingPlatforms

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  • John Kiff on 22 Jul 19
     
    In May 2019, IOSCO published "Issues, Risks and Regulatory Considerations Relating to Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms." The focus of the report is on the secondary market trading of crypto-assets on CTPs, assuming that the regulatory authority has the legal authority to regulate those assets.
John Kiff

Iranian gold-backed cryptocurrency under CBI permission to be unveiled - 0 views

en.mehrnews.com/...-CBI-permission-to-be-unveiled

Fintech CryptoAssets Sovereign Stablecoins Tokenization

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  • John Kiff on 21 Jul 19
     
    The Central Bank of Iran has approved the issuance of gold-backed crypto-asset designed to maximize the use of Iranian frozen bank assets, according to the CEO of Iranian Information and Communication Technology. In fact, a number of Iranian banks have been working with blockchain startup Kuknos Company on this "Paymon" project since January.
John Kiff

Noncustodial Crypto Exchanges, Explained - 0 views

cointelegraph.com/...ial-crypto-exchanges-explained

Fintech CryptoAssets Custody Liquidity

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  • John Kiff on 21 Jul 19
     
    A noncustodial exchange (NCE) is a service that facilitates the trade of different cryptocurrencies without ever holding user funds.
John Kiff

Crypto-friendly Switzerland Outclasses U.S. as Facebook Libra's Regulator - 0 views

www.ccn.com/...15

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins Facebook

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  • John Kiff on 21 Jul 19
     
    "Because the (Libra) Association is headquartered in Geneva, it will be supervised by the Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority (FINMA). We have had preliminary discussions with FINMA and expect to engage with them on an appropriate regulatory framework for the Libra Association."
John Kiff

Facebook is backpedaling from its ambitious vision for Libra - 0 views

arstechnica.com/...its-ambitious-vision-for-libra

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins Facebook

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  • John Kiff on 20 Jul 19
     
    Facebook now seems to recognize its original vision was a non-starter with regulators. So this week Marcus sketched out a new vision for Libra-one in which the Libra Association will shoulder significant responsibility for ensuring compliance with laws relating to money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes.
John Kiff

Sources of personal identifying info used in Facebook's targeted advertising - 0 views

mislove.org/...PII-PETS.pdf

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins Facebook

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  • John Kiff on 20 Jul 19
     
    "Phone numbers and email addresses added as profile attributes, those provided for security purposes such as two-factor authentication, those provided to the Facebook Messenger app for the purpose of messaging, and those included in friends' uploaded contact databases are all used by Facebook to allow advertisers to target users."
John Kiff

Anchorage Chose South Dakota for Its Crypto Custody - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/kota-for-crypto-custody-office

Fintech CryptoAssets Custody Institutionalization

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  • John Kiff on 20 Jul 19
     
    While Wyoming is perhaps the most notable state to court the crypto industry, others have also joined in. Montana passed a crypto-friendly securities law in May. In South Dakota, Anchorage is following in the footsteps of fellow crypto custodian BitGo, which got the green light from state regulators in 2018.
John Kiff

Fidelity's crypto arm has officially applied to operate in New York as a trust - 0 views

www.theblockcrypto.com/...operate-in-new-york-as-a-trust

Fintech CryptoAssets Custody Institutionalization

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  • John Kiff on 20 Jul 19
     
    Fidelity Digital Assets has officially applied to the New York Department of Financial Services for a Trust license. If its application is successful, Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS) would be cleared to add New York to the handful of states in which it currently operates its custody business for digital assets."
John Kiff

Bitcoin's Decentralized Decision Structure - 0 views

www.clevelandfed.org/...-bitcoin-decentralized-network

Fintech CryptoAssets Bitcoin AltCoins

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  • John Kiff on 20 Jul 19
     
    This Cleveland Fed paper shows that while the decentralized nature of the Bitcoin network "democratizes" payments, it is not obvious that the approach increases the equity or efficiency of markets or that the costs of the decentralized control structure won't outweigh the benefits in the long run.
John Kiff

Declining trend in Dutch cash use persists - 0 views

www.dnb.nl/...dnb384990.jsp

Fintech CBDC

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  • John Kiff on 19 Jul 19
     
    The use of cash as a means of payment in the Netherlands continued to decline in 2018, according to data released by the Netherlands Bank. Last year, Dutch consumers paid 37% of their purchases in cash, down from 41% in 2017. Cash also declined in transactions between consumers, falling to 59% of peer-to-peer transactions in 2018, down from 67% the previous year.
John Kiff

Ghana sees route to 'cash-lite' economy through mobile money - 0 views

www.bog.gov.gh/...O%20STAKEHOLDER%20WORKSHOP.pdf

Fintech MobileMoney

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  • John Kiff on 19 Jul 19
     
    Bank of Ghana deputy governor Maxwell Opoku-Afari stressed the large gains that Ghana has made in financial inclusion, mostly due to the growth of its mobile money sector. He said the number of mobile money accounts has grown from 3.8m in 2012 to 32.6m in 2018, which is greater than the population of Ghana (30.1 million).
John Kiff

Thoughts on Facebook's Libra Coin - Preston Byrne - 0 views

prestonbyrne.com/...libra

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins Facebook

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  • John Kiff on 19 Jul 19
     
    "If Facebook had built an app that just allowed in-app, user friendly payments in USD, I could have gotten behind that. What has been proposed instead is a combination of a licensed version of Liberty Reserve with an ETF, which furthermore proposes to share transactional data with a veritable rogues' gallery of privacy-abusing tech companies and the VC firms that funded their rise. "
John Kiff

Binance's European arm lists GBP-backed stablecoin - 0 views

www.theblockcrypto.com/...rm-lists-gbp-backed-stablecoin

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins

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  • John Kiff on 19 Jul 19
     
    The European subsidiary of Binance has launched a British pound-pegged stablecoin. Starting today, Binance Jersey has started offering a British pound-backed Binance called GBP Stablecoin (BGBP), The Block confirmed with Binance.
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