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Analysis and comment on the future of digital financial services and more. David G.W. Birch is an Author and advisor on digital financial services, recognised thought leader in digital identity, global keynote speaker and Forbes contributor.
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Lee Reiners, the executive director of the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke Law School, has a firm line on digital financial services. The former regulator is of the general opinion that the crypto boom of recent memory had more ..read more
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xxx They Thought ‘Crypto Banks’ Were Safe, and Then Came the Crash Crypto firms such as Celsius and Voyager pitched themselves as good alternatives to traditional lenders From They Thought ‘Crypto Banks’ Were Safe, and Then Came the Crash ..read more
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Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin recently wrote that while many national governments are “inefficient and slow-moving” in adjusting to changes in the needs of populations (and, I might add, environments), cities and states have the potential to deliver much more flexible ..read more
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xxx The pilot program is open to a limited number of people in the US, Stephane Kasriel, head of Meta’s cryptocurrency and fintech unit, Novi tweeted. Kasriel officially announced on Wednesday that Meta’s messenger subsidiary, WhatsApp, has started testing transactions ..read more
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xxx The branding campaign aims to “legitimise” the coin and increase the “confidence of the average consumer” to buy, according to the group’s head of marketing, who identified himself by the alias Sabre. “You get a lot of scam artists ..read more
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Around the world there are hundreds of millions, billions of unbanked people. But why are so many people unbanked? It can’t be because there is a shortage of banks as there are more banks, challenger banks, neo-banks and near-banks than ..read more
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xxx The cookies are required by UK and EU law, but Denham is recommending a less intrusive alternative system in which people set their privacy preferences a single time in their browser. From UK to ask G7 for privacy overhaul ..read more
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xxx Gensler said he had been focusing on cryptocurrency trading platforms because 95 per cent or more of the activity in this “highly speculative asset” takes place in such venues — with investor protections he described as “really sparse”. He ..read more
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Gary Gensler, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), says that while he is “technology neutral”, crypto assets were no different than any others when it came to such public policy imperatives as investor protection, guarding against illicit ..read more
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The Biden Executive Order on promoting competition contains a number of very interesting provisions. Some of them, such as the initiative to require airlines to refund fees to passengers who get bad wifi or whose baggage is lost, seem unlikely ..read more