ADVERTISEMENT The UK is outpacing all of Europe and the US in terms of dollars spent on fintech investments, with $48 billion pouring into UK …
Up 500% in Three Years, Fintech Investments Soar in the UK, Target Banking Shakeup Read More »
May 30, 2020 at 10:25 // News A bureaucrat at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an organization working to strengthen worldwide financial cooperation, proposed a …
May 29, 2020 at 13:11 // News The Bank of Lithuania (BoL) is working on the development of a blockchain platform to support the non-financial …
Lithuanian Central Bank Tests Blockchain Sandbox for Non-Financial Sector Read More »
Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, a representative from the International Monetary Fund, believes that a synthetic private-public partnership could be the best way forward for a central bank …
IMF Official Says Public-Private CBDC Offers Best of Both Worlds Read More »
May 28, 2020 at 13:11 // News In a call with investors on May 27, Goldman Sachs, the New York-based multinational investment bank and financial …
Goldman Sachs’ Negative Opinion Of Bitcoin Raises Criticism Read More »
May 28, 2020 at 11:29 // News Although pilot tests for the digital Yuan have been launched and are happening progressively across four large Chinese …
China’s Digital Yuan Has No Official Launch Date, Though in Progress Read More »
A recent report suggests that the lack of traditional financial infrastructure makes Africa a place where cryptocurrency adoption is likely. The report — shared with …
Bitcoin May Be the Solution to Africa’s Broken Financial System Read More »
May 27, 2020 at 12:36 // News Sberbank, Russia’s largest state-owned bank, expands and installs blockchain-based ATMs to expand contactless transactions. Thanks to the distributed …
Russia’s Largest State-owned Bank Introduces 5,000 Blockchain-based ATMs Read More »
Leading cryptocurrency fund manager Grayscale Investments explained some fundamental differences in the nature of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and Bitcoin (BTC). In a recent …
Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Not a Replacement for Bitcoin: Grayscale Read More »
Brazilian retail firm Via Varejo has scooped up Boston-based fintech startup Airfox for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition comes as part of plans by Via …
