753 Results from /crypto
Indra Chourasia Industry Advisor at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
After the frightening market distress triggered from crash of Terra Luna - engulfing prominent players like Three Arrows Capital and Celsius in recent months, the crypto ecosystem is still finding a way. At the same time, the recent turmoil in crypto-asset markets has underlined increased risks from intense volatility and structural vulnerabilitie...
21 August 2022 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Retired Member
The crypto industry has been subject to a great deal of criticism because of security issues. Hacks, fraud, and other types of activities have caused millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency to end up in the pockets of criminals. Yet, in reality, many crypto hacks happened not because of blockchains’ failure but due to users’ poor security meas...
18 August 2022 /payments /crypto Business
Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
Crypto market is going through wild changes, and record drawdown of key coins during the last five months has made people nervous. However, the current decline is a natural and, in my opinion, temporal event. Vitalik Buterin proclaimed the beginning of the crypto winter in February 2022. In his interview for Bloomberg, he said that the stagnatio
17 August 2022 /crypto /markets Trends in Financial Services
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
I am a music fan. Of all sorts, from classic, to pop, to etc. In the sixteenths I visited the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Plumpton South England. And there I saw Deep Purple for the first time. It was great. Recently I read that, notwithstanding the music industry is an incredibly big business, many artists still have a pover life. This whi...
15 August 2022 /crypto Blockchain Observations
Mykyta Grechyna
Recently, the European Parliament and the European Commission have provisionally agreed on the regulation project aimed at the cryptocurrency market called Markets in Crypto-Asset Regulation (MiCA). We can already notice certain principles by which respective authorities worldwide will highly likely regulate the crypto asset projects. MiCA is the ...
12 August 2022 /crypto Innovation in Financial Services
Karen Hsu CMO at Appdome
Recently, bills were introduced in the U.S. Senate that would give Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) oversight of cryptocurrency, which would treat them as digital commodities. Regardless of whether the bill becomes law, however, banks and financial institutions should pay close attention to cryptocurrency, if for no other reason than...
09 August 2022 /security /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Mike Castiglione Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets at Eventus
Last year crypto got too big to ignore. This year’s downturn, coupled with several company implosions, is spurring a stronger focus on regulation. New regulations were coming even without the fall in crypto prices. Policymakers globally have put significant time and attention into the still emerging industry. Many crypto companies themselves—along...
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
Digital finance has no doubt transformed the traditional way of providing banking and financial services, enabling greater access to financial services, offering wider choice and increasing efficiency of operations. In the European Union (EU) the use of innovative technologies in the financial sector is facilitating changes to value chains, that d...
07 August 2022 /regulation /crypto Blockchain Geek
Philipp Pieper Co-founder at Swarm Markets GmbH
Despite us moving into a traditionally quiet time of year, the world of crypto is still undergoing key changes in terms of market dynamics as well as regulation. I reflect on three key developments below that emerged this week: EU regulator ups the stakes on crypto regulation Ether flips bitcoin in options markets Aave stablecoin is a natural prog...
05 August 2022 /regulation /crypto DeFi
According to the latest survey conducted by PMNTS and BitPay, 85% of businesses are adopting crypto payments to find and gain new customers. As an alternative payment system built on the blockchain ledger, cryptocurrency is the digital alternative to traditional fiat currencies, and the blockchain - the transparent, distributed ledger where all c...
05 August 2022 /payments /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
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