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Diem could slash dollar payment costs

May 14, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Diem, the Facebook-sponsored digital currency, could be highly disruptive to the US dollar payments infrastructure, say analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). Earlier this week Diem said it […]

Tether reserve disclosure leaves unanswered questions

May 13, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Half of the reserves of the unregulated digital dollar, tether, are in the unsecured debt of unknown corporate issuers, according to details of the stablecoin’s reserve backing at the end […]

Facebook’s $ stablecoin to target multi-trillion MMF sector

May 13, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Tech giant Facebook is targeting a multi-trillion dollar pool of money market fund assets as it seeks to launch its new digital currency, Diem, in the US. Yesterday Facebook announced […]

Only taxes can address inequality, says BIS head

May 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Governments should use their tax and spend powers to address rising levels of inequality, rather than relying on central banks to help build a fairer society. That’s the message from […]

A cryptocurrency sceptic speaks out

May 5, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Many large financial institutions have performed an about-turn in cryptocurrency during the last few years, moving from a position of outright hostility to one of acceptance and even enthusiasm. But […]

Could NFTs challenge bitcoin’s store-of-value promise?

May 4, 2021 Comments are Disabled

By comparison with assets like gold, real estate and government bonds, the advantages of bitcoin as a store of value are that it is electronic, operates on a decentralised blockchain […]

Europe’s first common money was bronze

April 30, 2021 Comments are Disabled

More than five thousand years before European states launched the euro, the region already had a single currency—bronze. According to researchers Nicola Ialongo from Göttingen University and Giancarlo Lago from […]

Living in revolutionary times

April 28, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Political revolutions often go hand-in-hand with revolutions in money. Stores of value change, the way we make payments changes, our attitudes to credit change. According to Rebecca Spang, professor of […]

Breaking the buck

April 26, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The biggest crises in financial markets happen when an asset previously assumed to be safe turns out not to be. Investors rush to sell it, they find they can’t get […]

Smoothing the system’s sharp edges

April 19, 2021 Comments are Disabled

John Kiff, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast, prefers what he calls the ‘edgy’ areas of finance—from over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives to fintech and cryptocurrency. He also wants […]

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