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Heather Lough associate at Waracle
The headline sounds like another fevered diatribe about why decentralised cryptocurrencies are going to the moon on a hype train, but we aren’t going down that rabbit hole. Instead, we are going to explore customer experience, consumer empowerment and flexibility of products & services. Not what you expected, huh? Well, good. Let’s jump into w...
30 March 2021 /crypto
Marten Nelson Co-founder and CEO at M10
Mainstream, tech, and fintech media is bubbling with central bank digital currency (CBDC) chatter. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is performing excellent research on the topic. They’re answering the critical questions of “why consider CBDC?” and “how to create a CBDC?” amongst other topics. Nearly all central banks are at some stage ...
30 March 2021 /payments /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Exchanges today mirror the Internet networks of yesterday; they are siloed therefore lacking interconnection and are focused on a subset of assets. This fragmentation has been exacerbated, with the advent of the new digital asset markets. What can be the glue creating interconnectedness as the first truly hybrid full exchange and post trade ecosys...
29 March 2021 /crypto /markets Digital Asset Class (DAC)
Retired Member
APIs allow access to siloed data so businesses can offer personalized services to clients Financial services are evolving fast. According to recent research, 42 per cent of UK adults now use at least one FinTech service and over 20 million people use banking apps. Today, people are comfortable banking online and customers are increasingly demandin...
26 March 2021 /payments /crypto Fintech
Over the past three months, the main cryptocurrency has tripled in price. Experts have named the conditions under which it would grow twice more this year. On the night of March 18, the Bitcoin price again approached the $60K mark. The first cryptocurrency began to actively grow in price after it had broken the $20K mark in December last year. The...
19 March 2021 /inclusion /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Adriana P Trader at Xray Trade
Nowadays, companies need to diversify their approaches to get the consumer’s time and attention and this goes for the financial services companies also. A new concept has been introduced to keep that consumer attention which is called gamification which is leveraging specific gameplay principles like designing elements and making it accessible to ...
16 March 2021 /crypto /predictions Fintech
Dear Friends, Are crypto exchanges a global or local phenomenon? And how should investors evaluate them? I decided to pursue this question because crypto exchanges are bending the usual conventions around venture capital investing. First, it is very difficult to draw a comparison with traditional exchanges and brokerages. These are mostly local. O...
12 March 2021 /payments /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
After the correction, the flagship digital coin continues to recover in price and at 13:30 traded at $55.1K. On February 28, the price of Bitcoin fell to a local low of $43.5K. This happened after the cryptocurrency reached a historic high at $58.3K on February 21. Volatility in quotations are accompanied by various statements of media personaliti...
12 March 2021 /inclusion /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
The real estate market is constantly changing, with new trends coming and going all the time. Even right now, there are multiple trends that are dominating, and which might prove interesting to people who may be on the lookout for such opportunities. Today, I will present four such trends to you, in hope that it might help those who navigate such w...
08 March 2021 /inclusion /crypto Fintech
The value of the main digital coin again stormed the mark of $52K, although on Sunday it dropped to $43K. What news was the reason that the value of the cryptocurrency fell and recovered, and how much it can grow in the near future. On Wednesday, March 3, Bitcoin quotes on the Binance crypto exchange again approached the mark of $52K. At the peak,...
05 March 2021 /inclusion /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
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