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John Kiff

Ethereum losing share as dapp developers choose other networks » Brave New Coin - 0 views

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    Ethereum's competitors have come to the fore, and are challenging the platform's dominance by shifting the Dapp market share in favour of emerging platforms like EOS and Tron.
John Kiff

Digital Asset Goes Open Source as Firm Eyes Closer Ties With Hyperledger - CoinDesk - 0 views

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    Blockchain startup Digital Asset is open sourcing its Digital Asset Modelling Language, the heart of projects like the partial ASX re-plumbing. This will include its source code, runtime system, and software development kit, all under an Apache 2.0 license.
John Kiff

Commercial Bank & Central Bank Digital Currencies: Prudential Treatments - 0 views

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    This IIF paper outlines some of the important policy issues around the prudential regulation treatment of commercial and central bank digital instruments that will need to be considered further, illustrated by some potential scenarios.
John Kiff

Barclays, RBS, R3 Cut Property Transaction Times in Blockchain Trial - 0 views

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    Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), enterprise blockchain firm R3 and other participants have completed a blockchain trial that they say resulted in faster property transactions.
John Kiff

Now There's a Canadian Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin on the Way - 0 views

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    Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare is launching a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the Canadian dollar. The exchange plans potential roles for its new "eCAD" token in cross-border payments and remittance, peer-to-peer lending, merchant payment solutions, as well as trade settlements and forex conversions.
John Kiff

Send money internationally for free via Coinbase - 0 views

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    Coinbase customers can now transfer funds to any user with a Coinbase account around the world using XRP and USDCoin with no fee. The development enables users to send and receive money instantly, as well as convert them into local currency.
John Kiff

Bitcoin soars 20 percent, mystery buyer seen as catalyst - 0 views

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    Bitcoin burst to its highest level in almost five months on Tuesday, soaring 20% and sending smaller cryptos up, with analysts ascribing the move to a major algorithmic order by an anonymous buyer that triggered a frenzy of computer-driven trading.
John Kiff

FSB publishes directory of crypto-assets regulators - Financial Stability Board - 0 views

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    "The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published today a Crypto-assets regulators directory. The purpose of the directory is to provide information on the relevant regulators and other authorities in FSB jurisdictions and international bodies who are dealing with crypto-asset issues, and the aspects covered by them."
John Kiff

MAS uses machine learning to spot market manipulation - Central Banking - 0 views

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    "The Monetary Authority of Singapore has started using an advanced data science tool named Apollo to help enforcement officers detect misconduct in financial markets, the central bank said in its inaugural enforcement report."
John Kiff

Fed preps draft white paper on cyber risk - Risk.net - 0 views

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    "The US Federal Reserve has launched a project to find a common way of classifying and modelling cyber risk, amid continued fears over banks' collective readiness to meet the existential threat it poses to the financial system."
John Kiff

A Balanced Approach to Fintech Regulation and Innovation-at Home and Abroad - 0 views

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    IMF's DMD David Lipton: Countries facing the challenge of Fintech have legitimate concerns about competition, about the market power of technology giants, and the cyber-risks and social disruptions that may accompany rapid technological change. Many countries worry about how data is collected and used; and how IT firms are taxed. We need to ensure that our actions enable us all together to maximize the benefits of Fintech for the benefit of all our citizens.
John Kiff

People Are 'Waking Up' - 40% Drop in Dormant Wallets Fueling Bitcoin Rally - 0 views

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    The latest surge in Bitcoin price may have been caused by increased activity across the board as the number of active wallets has risen by as much as 40-60 percent, according to the latest data and industry analysts.
John Kiff

What's Behind Bitcoin's Mysterious Surge - 0 views

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    VanEck's Gabor Gurbacs said the big crypto price jump on April 1 was related to a short squeeze following a big CME bitcoin futures expiry the previous Friday.
John Kiff

Returns on Crypto Assets: The Hidden Message - 0 views

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    The past couple of weeks have seen a flurry of headlines proclaiming a relatively new type of crypto asset return: income, not from trading or realizing profits, but from just holding the cryptocurrencies and tokens.
John Kiff

Bitcoin Cash Spikes 12%: Is the Anticipated "Altcoin Season" Imminent? - 0 views

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    Bitcoin is said to have increased in value by a large margin in the last seven days primarily due to the liquidation of around half a billion dollars worth of short contracts on exchanges like BitMEX.
John Kiff

Chinese Bitcoin Investors Are Happily Paying a Markup For Tethers - 0 views

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    The Tether (USDT) premium is going up because after the PBoC ICO/exchange ban, the most convenient way to buy cryptos in China, is to buy stable coins like USDT first using OTC, and then trade it into any cryptos on exchanges.
John Kiff

New report evaluates stablecoin contenders and the sector's likely evolution - 0 views

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    A new report from Techemy Capital identifies winning and losing business models, explores underwriting options beyond "cash in the bank" and predicts the likely stablecoin market evolution through to 2022.
John Kiff

Tunisian central bank explores digital dinar - 0 views

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    Tunisia is looking to be a pioneer in implementing blockchain as the country's central bank explores the use of the technology for a national digital dinar.
John Kiff

BigTech and the changing structure of financial intermediation - 0 views

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    Differences in the development of FinTech credit reflect differences in income and financial market structure. The higher a country's income and the less competitive its banking system, the larger the FinTech credit volume.
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