One way to understand how big crypto has become is to look at the prices of coins and at the industry’s market cap. But then when you check a few minutes or days later you might see a completely different picture because of the crypto industry’s volatility. In the last 10 days, bitcoin’s price dropped […]
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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis […]
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Brussels attempts to force Euro clearing services away from London may send everything to New York. While this is not strictly anything to do with lending it is certainly relevant to the fact that political interferences since Brexit have refused to go away. The clearing of financial transactions including some hideously complex financial derivatives has […]
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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 XBRL and why it is important for South Africa This is the first in a series of articles exploring XBRL. Our next article will consider how XBRL was developed and the […]
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Globally, insurers contend with numerous distribution challenges — whether it is by virtue of the shift to remote sales networks or from balancing tech-assisted and human sales. Artificial intelligence (AI) is known to create seamless and personalized experiences with solutions ranging from lead prioritization to automated underwriting. Evidently, the most impact from AI, with as […]
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Will Regulatory oversight help or hinder? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Last week we noted the amazing innovation in DeFi and the role stablecoins have to play within that ecosystem and wondered if the move by some Regulators and Politicians to get involved will help or […]
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What happened to Motif? If you believe that copy trading can disrupt fund management you have to answer this question. “Motif allows individuals and investment advisors to invest in stock and bond portfolios built around everyday ideas and economic trends” (source Crunchbase). Despite Motif raising $126.5M from top tier investors such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, […]
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The Taproot upgrade for Bitcoin was officially activated on Sunday. Bitcoin had its biggest upgrade in 4 years, since the introduction of Segregated Witness in 2017. The Taproot upgrade improves network privacy, scalability, security, and the ability to support complex transactions. Earlier in the week bitcoin hit a new record high of $69k ($68,789.63 to […]
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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis […]
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The great challenger bank experiment has failed Good Saturday morning reading from Ben Marlow but definitely not for the faint hearted. He takes the view that banking is really all about scale and as evidence presents the proposed takeover of Metro Bank by Carlyle as a step in the road to, perhaps, create a […]
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