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Report: 100,000 Cubans Are Using Cryptocurrencies to Bypass Financial Sanctions
3.5.2022
On May 2, 2022, a report stemming from the broadcast television and radio network the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 100,000 Cubans are leveraging crypto assets. The report says increased crypto usage is due to the fact that Cubans cannot use certain payment vehicles due to the sanctions...
Buffett back bashing Bitcoin, claims it 'doesn't produce anything'
2.5.2022
“If you told me you own all of the Bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25 I wouldn’t take it because what would I do with it?” Warren Buffett said
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Skeptical of Crypto but Says ‘Not All of It Is Bad’
1.5.2022
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says that he does not particularly like crypto but will defend your right to invest in it. However, he sees benefits in some aspects of digital currency. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon on Crypto, Digital Currency JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon talked about...
Apollo Hires JPMorgan's Christine Moy to Lead Digital Assets Strategy
28.4.2022
The investment giant will be looking for to make investments between $50 million and $250 million in blockchain and Web 3
Deutsche Bank Predicts Major US Recession Next Year
28.4.2022
Deutsche Bank’s economists have warned that the U.S. will suffer a major recession next year. However, several other major investment banks, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, are less pessimistic about the future outlook for the U.S. economy. Major US Recession Incoming, According...
The Olive Corporation Could Be the Next Big Thing in Crypto, the Metaverse and the Food Sector
25.4.2022
Everyone would agree that the metaverse is a novel concept that is only going to become more popular as time goes on. Even now, many international companies from a variety of backgrounds such as Samsung, Emirates Airlines, and even JPMorgan have all gotten involved with the metaverse, so it is safe...
Fidelity Launches Multi-Level Learning Center in Metaverse
23.4.2022
Fidelity Investments, a major financial services firm with $11.3 trillion in assets under administration, has entered the metaverse with the opening of an eight-story learning center and the launch of a metaverse exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Fidelity Stack features “a multi-level design...
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to Shareholders: Decentralized Finance, Blockchain Are Real
8.4.2022
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees decentralized finance (defi) and blockchain as real, new technologies that can be deployed in both private and public fashion. He also noted that JPMorgan is at the forefront of this innovation. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Praises Defi and Blockchain JPMorgan...
DeFi and Blockchain 'Are Real' - JPMorgan CEO
6.4.2022
Wall Street investment bank JPMorgan is persuaded that decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology bring major growth potential, and is determined to remain “at the forefront of this innovation,” Jamie Dimon, the bank’s Chairman and CEO, wrote in his latest letter to the company's...
JPMorgan Sees Limited Upside for Crypto Markets
4.4.2022
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has warned that any upside for crypto markets from here would likely be more limited. Basing their prediction on the relationship between stablecoins and the rest of the crypto market, the bank’s analyst explained that stablecoins’ share of the total crypto...
Metaverse Banking: HSBC Enters The Sandbox as JPMorgan Tests Decentraland
16.3.2022
With major financial institutions increasingly moving into the metaverse, UK bank HSBC is the first global financial services provider to enter virtual world The Sandbox, following in the steps of US-based banking giant JPMorgan which recently set up a lounge in another virtual world...
US Banking Giants Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Wind Down Business in Russia
13.3.2022
Global investment banks Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are winding down business in the Russian Federation. The move comes as western sanctions against Moscow over its decision to launch a military invasion of Ukraine continue to expand, supported by leading financial institutions. Goldman Sachs...
Poll Suggests ECB May Wait Until Q4 to Raise Rates, Several Banks Expect a Series of Fed Rate Hikes This Year
7.3.2022
A recently published Reuters poll suggests the European Central Bank (ECB) may wait until the last quarter of the year (Q4) to raise its first interest rate in over ten years. The poll’s author details that after the conflict in Ukraine, “fewer economists” predict the ECB will...
Crypto’s Sanction-Slipping Power: Why Bitcoin’s Neutrality Is Its Greatest Humanitarian Asset
4.3.2022
Decentralized networks such as Bitcoin’s don’t know national allegiance, they only know math. And when you’re trying to get your savings out of an ATM, or send a payment to relatives in a war-torn environment, someone else’s politics is the last thing you want standing...
Snow Crash's Metaverse was filled with ads in 1992, and the real one will be too
25.2.2022
“Just making sh*t up” — Neal Stevenson’s science fiction novel, Snow Crash, long foretold the rise of a techno-marketing dystopia
Warner Music Goes for Blockchain Gaming, Mintable Recovers Stolen NFTs + More News
23.2.2022
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‘WGMI’: JPMorgan’s Blockchain Chief Leaves for Unspecified New Opportunity
22.2.2022
Christine Moy's post was short on details but a "we're gonna make it" sign-off hinted at future crypto plans
JPMorgan Opens a Lounge in the Metaverse After Stating the $1 Trillion Market ‘Will Likely Infiltrate Every Sector’
21.2.2022
Global Investment bank JPMorgan says, “The metaverse will likely infiltrate every sector in some way in the coming years, with the market opportunity estimated at over $1 trillion in yearly revenues.” The firm has set up a lounge in Decentraland. JPMorgan on the Metaverse Global...
Crypto Biz: JPMorgan enters the metaverse, Marshall Islands legalizes DAOs, Feb. 10-16
18.2.2022
In other business news, Fireblocks has acquired First Digital in a deal reportedly worth $100 million and the New York Stock Exchange is pursuing NFT trading
JPMorgan unveils research on quantum resistant blockchain network
18.2.2022
“QKD is the only solution that has been mathematically proven to defend against a potential quantum computing-based attack,” JPMorgan emphasized in its announcement