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Carlo R.W. De Meijer The Meyer Financial Services Advisory (MIFS) at MIFSA
Long-time regulators were not sure on if at all or how to handle the crypto ecosystem. But that has changed fundamentally with the crypto industry witnessing massive growth and interest from traditional institutions and major investors. This year has been a year of increased regulatory focus of the booming crypto market. The potential for crypto ex...
31 August 2021 /crypto
Stablecoins are one of the newest hot spots on the crypto market. They have the potential to enhance the efficiency of the provision of financial services including payments, and to promote financial inclusion. They might offer a new way to transact and retain value, starting to redefine modern finance. We all have seen their incredible growth in...
30 July 2021 /regulation /crypto
Kulmohan Singh Director Sales at X-Byte Enterprise Solutions.
It is continually energizing to anticipate the crypto business' direction, since it's growing all the while due to, and rather than, the customary monetary framework. From one perspective, the presentation of prerequisites for the ID of crypto clients, the developing interest in government advanced monetary forms, the crypto administration from Pa...
29 June 2021 /crypto
In an earlier blog about the newest trends in 2021 in the blockchain world I mentioned the spectacular growth in decentralised finance or DeFi. Decentralized finance, an unbundling of traditional finance, is challenging the centralized financial system by disempowering middlemen and facilitate peer-to-peer transactions and let users retain control...
28 June 2021 /crypto
Retired Member
Scrutiny over the strength of global supply chains has increased greatly over the course of the past year. The global pandemic, Brexit and a tanker blocking the Suez have illustrated how interconnected and fragile supply chains can be in the face of a crisis. The ongoing global pandemic in particular has prompted the public sector to invest in buil...
16 June 2021
Janne Jutila Head of Business Alliances at Signicat AS
The first U.S. dollar, as it is known today, was printed in 1914 upon the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank. Since Bretton Wood conference in 1944 U.S. dollar has been the unchallenged global reserve currency with a dominating role in global trade. Before the hegemony of dollar, during previous centuries, the status of leading currency was much...
11 June 2021 /payments /crypto
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
NFTs are at the moment a real buzz. The word NFT stands for non-fungible token, which means a unique, irreplaceable cryptographic object. It aims to manage ownership of digital content (digital collectible items) by storing the ownership in the form of a digital certificate on a blockchain (usually on the Ethereum blockchain, but other blockchains...
09 June 2021 /wealth /crypto
The year is 2009. A forum user, under the guise ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, sits down at their computer and is compelled to post something. They (an individual or group) have for years held a deep-seated distrust in centralised financial intuitions; that distrust has now most likely overflowed in to anger as they watch the events of the Global Financial C
02 June 2021 /startups /crypto
Long-time blockchain has been looked at as an isolated technology. Recently however we see a growing trend of blockchain being integrated with other technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence amongst others. An interesting development that can be observed is the growing attention of corporates to use blockchain for IoT or Internet of T...
25 May 2021 /crypto
George Connolly President at Oneledger
Cryptocurrencies and the environmental challenges Bitcoin lovers and detractors have been fiercely arguing whether Bitcoin, the No. 1 cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, is good for the environment or not. Bitcoin evangelists say that "the government-controlled currency and the entire financial infrastructure that supports it r...
19 May 2021 /crypto
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