Just before the new year, approximately 15 million Canadians — about 40 per cent of the entire population of Canada — learned that their sensitive personal data, collected by one of Canada’s major lab diagnostic and testing services, had been breached. The data included name, address, email, login, passwords, date of birth, health card number…
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Source: iStock/Ivan-balvan Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. _____ We rarely make a big deal about crypto tech upgrades. We dissect them. We run them through our technology model. And…
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Jason Guthrie is the Head of Capital Markets in Europe at the international investment giant WisdomTree. _____ The current economic climate is a concern for investors. Trade-restructuring, high levels of liquidity, systemically-low inflation, inverted yield curves, negative-yielding bonds, historically tight employment markets, and significant leverage at both consumer and Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin…
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Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. _____ In financial markets, it’s rarely possible to know, in advance, precisely when a major event will impact supply and demand — let alone…
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Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli is a Deputy Division Chief in the same Department. ____ Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) is a complex and multidisciplinary topic requiring active analysis and debate. It raises questions related to Read more »Pay,…
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George McDonaugh is the CEO and Co-Founder of KR1 plc, the London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company. ___ Facebook’s Libra, Twitter, Digital Fiat, and China Let’s look at some macro trends circling the esoteric inner core of this ongoing technological revolution. First up there’s Facebook’s Libra, which currently is a swirling mass of Read…
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___ Keld van Schreven is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1 plc, the London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company. ____ Wow that was quick, here we are at the end of 2019! The year for crypto markets and blockchain technology has been slow and steady. Large capitalized cryptocurrencies had a strong year and…
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People on a train in Dhaka, Bangladesh. If you want to uncover hidden market gems, you need to look where others haven’t. And one of the places that my Gucci-loafer-wearing peers aren’t looking are frontier markets. Frontier markets? You’ve heard of emerging markets and perhaps you’ve even invested in them. But investors mostly ignore frontier…
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Cash of the titans. Artistdesign29 One of the hottest topics in cryptocurrencies is the prospect of major economies launching state-backed digital coins. China’s central bank recently accelerated plans for what is currently known as the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP). It could launch within the next 18 months, while the European Central Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy…
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Source: a video screenshot, YouTube, Bloomberg Markets and Finance This is a lecture by Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, held at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, on December 5, 2019. Main highlights: (Read the whole text below) Theoretically speaking, money is a social convention, hence anything could serve as…
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