Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Will stablecoins and CBDC’s help or hinder Crypto? Some would argue that CBDCs will cancel out the need for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. After all, how many different digital currencies do we really need? This article argues that in fact, the opposite […]
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The Internet was originally designed as a decentralized system to withstand attack by the Soviet Union during the cold war. The Internet protocols are also permissionless. You just connect your system to the Internet. Nobody can stop you – except the market if you don’t add value. That changed with Web 2 when centralized services […]
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In 2000 we had the “dot-com bowl,” and twenty-two years later it looks like we’re going to have the first “crypto bowl.” Among this year’s Super Bowl advertisers are two crypto companies, Crypto.com and FTX. Advertising during the Super Bowl can put a brand in front of an audience of 100 million people, but placing […]
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Bankers’ Fury as Credit Suisse claws back bonuses Poor old Credit Suisse they never seem far from controversy and now there is a row over bonus payments. Specifically some of the non front office staff will have bonus clawback provisions built into their employment contracts. What I found hard to fathom was that the […]
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 Digital finance: Federal Council sets out areas of action for coming years The Federal Council sees great potential for Switzerland as a business location in the digitalisation of the financial market. […]
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The median of global Insurance Penetration, defined in terms of insurance premium as percentage of GDP, was below 2% as recently as 2016. But it masquerades the fact that national differences are large, ranging from 20% at one end to 0.06% at the other. Some countries don’t have developed insurance markets, being at early […]
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Facebook exits the stablecoin business, or has it? This week the news was dominated by the news that Facebook has exited the stablecoin arena. Or has it? Certainly on the face of it (no pun intended) it looks like a clean […]
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Is it Libra or is it Diem, is it Facebook or is it Meta? Hard to keep up with all the name and brand changes, but whatever way you look at it, the news just in about the sale to a US based VC called Silvergate for $200m represents a significant fail. To try and […]
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Gavin Wood, now based in Switzerland, is crediting with coining the term Web3 in 2014 when he was CoFounder and CTO of the Ethereum Foundation. Web3 is a vision of a an Internet that is not controlled by a few big centralised players such as Google, Facebook and Amazon ie the Web2 we use every day. […]
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