Ronen Palan, Professor of International Politics, City, University of London.___ The historical parallels are uncanny. A decade or so after the two most devastating financial crises in modern capitalism, in 1929 and in 2008, a terrible conflict begins in Europe that threatens to draw in the entire world. So far, the Ukraine war is…
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Suren Ayriyan is the Managing Partner and CEO at TEMPO Payments, a digital money transfer company. __________ Today, 15 countries – including China, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa – are testing their own centralized digital currencies: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Another 87 countries are exploring the virtual minting process and how they can…
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Dr Paul Mazzola, Lecturer Banking and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, the University of Wollongong, and Mitchell Goroch, Cryptocurrency Trader and Researcher, University of Wollongong. ______ Fearing Russia’s elite will evade economic sanctions by converting their wealth to cryptocurrency, high-profile US Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill into US Congress to…
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An opinion columnist writing for Bloomberg has identified two flaws that “fundamentally undermine” the United States and EU-led “sanctions regime” against Russia – and neither have anything to do with the use of crypto. Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, senior lawmakers in the USA and elsewhere have claimed that wealthy Russians…
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Following Terra’s announcement in February that it would partly back its stablecoin UST with bitcoin (BTC), the market has been waiting for clues that Terra is in fact following up on its promise and buying BTC. An indication that the stablecoin protocol is following through with its plan came this week, when a wallet…
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Alfred Kammer is the Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Jihad Azour is the Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the IMF; Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department at the IMF; Ilan Goldfajn was Governor of the Banco Central do Brasil…
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Gregor Žavcer, Executive Director at Swarm, an Ethereum-powered decentralized storage and communication system.__________… Read More: How To Design Blockchain Games Ethically Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. _____ The West is arraying financial weapons never deployed before against a country of Russia’s size, forsaking some of the principles that have defined it…. Read More: Another Putin’s Mistake of the Ukraine War – Trusting the Western Financial System Read more…
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Gabriella Legrenzi, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Keele University; Reinhold Heinlein, Senior Lecturer in Economics, the University of the West of England, and Scott Mahadeo, Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics, the University of Portsmouth.______ … Read More: Ukraine War and the Financial Markets: the Winners and Losers So Far Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit…
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Mohiuddin Ahmed, Lecturer of Computing & Security, Edith Cowan University, Paul Haskell-Dowland, Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University. ______ The invasion of Ukraine has triggered a significant digital shift for Russia. Sanctions imposed by governments around the world – together with company closures or mothballing – have significantly impacted the country…. Read…
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