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Author name: Mischa Wesdorp

EU Proposes First Set of Rules for Crypto Assets

The European Union has taken a major step forward in its bid to regulate the crypto assets world after its executive branch issued its most extensive proposals to date for supervising the growing sector. The measures suggested within the EU’s digital finance strategy include cryptocurrencies not presently included in general regulation as well as a […]

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Governors and Heads of Supervision Announce Deferral of Basel III Implementation

The Basel Committee’s oversight body, the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), has endorsed a set of measures to provide additional operational capacity for banks and supervisors to respond to the immediate financial stability priorities resulting from the impact of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on the global banking system. The measures

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The Disruption of the Payments Industry

  It’s happening – the payments industry is going through a transformational once-in-a-generation type of shift. Financial institutions have been controlling the payments industry for quite a while – until 2014, when big investors poured more than $130 billion into technologies like Blockchain and mobile payments. With the investment, the relationship between banks, credit card

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It’s Official: Social Media Platform Facebook Steps into the Fintech Market with Cryptocurrency Platform Libra

According to a report published by Reuters, Facebook has been silently setting up a financial technology firm in Switzerland. The platform’s fintech firm is called Libra Networks, and it will solely focus on payments, investing, financing and other financial technology solutions. Details concerning the cryptocurrency platform have been released a few days ago. We will

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The Future: Facebook as the World’s Biggest Payments Provider?

There have been rumors that Facebook is creating its own digital coin in reaction to the $1.7 billion investment fund Telegram raised for its own cryptocurrency project. Together with Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram, Facebook’s reach amounts to a total of 2.7 billion users. If Facebook decides to create its own digital coin and payments environment,

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