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Bank of England’s Cunliffe: Crypto Threat to Financial Stability ‘Getting Closer’ — Urges Regulators to Act Now
16.11.2021
Bank of England’s deputy governor for financial stability, Sir Jon Cunliffe, has warned that cryptocurrency is getting closer to posing a threat to global financial stability due to the sector’s rapid growth. Crypto is also being integrated into the traditional financial system at...
Crypto poses imminent threat to financial stability: Bank of England Deputy Governor
16.11.2021
Bank of England's Sir Jon Cunliffe has urged British lawmakers to think “very hard” about the disruption integrating cryptocurrency with traditional finance could wreak
TCG World Partners With Stock Giants WSB to Expand Their Metaverse
6.11.2021
PRESS RELEASE. The world’s largest metaverse on blockchain and NFT platform TCG World announces partnership with a stock giant WallStreetBets. Since the start of the year, the WallStreetBets movement has been defying traditional finance with a legion of retail investors using decentralized...
Even with Ethereum 2.0 underway, L2 scaling is still key to DeFi’s future
23.10.2021
By incorporating scaling solutions, such as rollups and sidechains, Ethereum has the potential to implement the true vision of DeFi
Paid Millions to Hide Trillions: Meet Crime Enablers In Traditional Finance
10.10.2021
llicit wealth. The people who don’t get mentioned as much in the media coverage of the Pandora Papers, however, are the enablers devoted to helping the richest people in the world get richer and to pass on their wealth while avoiding or evading taxes. These enablers help criminals and kleptoc
Phemex Is a Rebellion Against Traditional Finance, and It’s Winning
7.10.2021
Wall Street is often touted as the place where dreams come to life, but the world’s economic epicenter can also be an absolute nightmare. From brokers screaming at each other across trading floors to the modern electronic trading systems of today, money talks in Wall Street. However, while...
How Traditional Finance World Could Cause Traditional Global Financial Crisis
26.9.2021
ncial products based on debts – most notoriously, residential mortgages –which were sold by banks to other banks and institutional investors. The profitability of these CDOs largely depended upon homeowners’ ability to repay their mortgages. When people began to default, the CDO market colla
CBDCs, Stablecoins & Crypto Can Disrupt Traditional Finance – Moody’s
14.9.2021
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Precious Metals Firm Kitco Launches Gold-Backed Tokens Built on Ethereum
5.8.2021
On August 4, the precious metals firm Kitco Gold announced the launch of a gold-backed stablecoin which will leverage an audit process via Cohen & Company with monthly attestation reports. Kitco has partnered with Tradewind Markets, First Digital Trust, and Stably, an asset tokenization...
Harmony announces $1M hackathon aimed at merging traditional finance and DeFi
16.7.2021
The hackathon will run for roughly six weeks from Aug. 15 to Sept. 30 and include four challenges from three different categories
Cryptocurrency Firms Face a Talent Shortage as the Space Grows Crowded
26.6.2021
Cryptocurrency companies and exchanges are currently facing significant hurdles when recruiting talent. This is because the crypto space is growing at an alarming rate. Traditional finance companies entering the scene seem to be making the talent squeeze even more dire. There are hundreds...
DeFi will bring global revolution to the traditional finance space
13.6.2021
DeFi has marked the birth of an open alternative to the current financial system, promising broader financial inclusivity
DeFi and traditional finance could converge thanks to tokenization
26.5.2021
It won’t be easy to bring DeFi to be on par with traditional finance, but tokenization can help it along, says Liquefy’s CEO
Traditional finance has much to learn from new entrant DeFi
15.5.2021
DeFi protocols offer insights into the future of capital markets infrastructure, for those willing to pay attention
pNetwork and Algorand Officially Partner up to Build New Cross-Chain Connections
28.4.2021
pNetwork, a cross-chain composability system that allows assets and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to move freely between blockchains, has officially partnered up with Algorand, the pure proof-of-stake blockchain focused on the convergence between decentralized and traditional finance, to launch...
Crypto and Traditional Finance To Merge Via M&As
17.4.2021
As Coinbase has already gone public, and eToro, Kraken are also planning to list their shares, we can also expect to see an increase in acquisition activity in the coming months.
While it’s expected that mergers and acquisitions are set to increase this year, what isn’t so clear is who will...
Cointelegraph Consulting: Research outlines how DeFi can merge with traditional finance
23.2.2021
New research finds that regulated financial institutions can interface with decentralized finance via digital asset marketplaces
The Man Behind Wallex and EURST
17.2.2021
Simone Mazzuca is innovative in his style of management. Being the founder of Wallex and creator of the EURST, he is agile and motivated with a strong orientation to bridge traditional finance with the new digital world. He focuses his energies on management and advisory robustness that leads...
Merging traditional finance and DeFi is critical for mass adoption
4.2.2021
If we want to achieve mainstream adoption, we must move toward an industry where DeFi can also serve legacy financial institutions
A Reddit Army Blurs The Line Between Crypto and Traditional Finance
1.2.2021
Philip Gradwell is Chief Economist at Chainalysis. He provides data and insight on the uses of cryptocurrencies and the direction of the market at markets.chainalysis.com.
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What does the phenomenon of retail traders coordinating on the internet to turn finance on its head have to do with...