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Back in 2020, Ukrainian legislation allowed banks to establish business relationships with new customers and open accounts for them completely remotely. Moreover, banks were even offered several optio...
Opportunities The decentralization, distributed accounts, smart contracts, and other features of blockchain technology will reconstruct the existing centralized financial infrastructure. Firstly, ba
U.S. regulators have taken extraordinary measures in 2021 in voicing their concerns around the cryptocurrency industry along with passing critical regulation that will bring more clarity for crypto co...
The subject of Digital Identity hit the headlines again at the end of 2021 as the UK introduced a digital covid pass which was met with serious concerns about data privacy, civil liberties and the int...
Cloud-based services are expected to be the dominant technology in the digital age. According to Cisco Cloud, the cloud will house more than 94% of the workload and computing operations by 2021. Cloud...
Polkadot is not a conventional blockchain. It is actually an ecosystem of interconnected blockchains called parallelized chains (parachains). Parachains are application-specific and they plug into a s...
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies hit new lows on 22 Jan 2022, and the ongoing crisis has wiped off more than $1 trillion from the global crypto market value. Bitcoin was hovering at $35,000 per c
Competition, technology, and shifting consumer expectations are changing the face of the financial industry. Large banks and financial institutions are seeing parts of their diverse customer bases lur...
A multi-currency debit card allows you to seamlessly switch between fiat currencies and digital assets, offering users a variety of different services. By streamlining payments and making it easier fo...
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes In May 2021, the FCA published a consultation paper (CP21/13) on a “New Consumer Duty” in an attempt to stop consumers from being provided with misleading information...
The world today is awash with money. The global broad money supply is reaching $ 90 Trillion, the United States alone contributing about $ 30 Trillion. Roughly 30% of US money supply was added in th...
Algorand is a new-gen blockchain that is bridging the decentralized and centralized world of finance. Its native crypto is ALGO. Algorand Standard Assets run on the blockchain's "Layer-1" a...