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Jon had been watching CryptosRUs on YouTube again. He had spent hours following what users had been posting and commenting in Bitcoin & Crypto groups on Facebook.

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Talking about Regional Trends Disrupting Banking at Fintech-Aviv

May 28, 2021

Like each year, people interested in Fintech from all over the world tuned into the Fintech-Aviv Annual Summit. 30% of them from North America, 25% of them from Western Europe, 15% from Central Eastern Europe, 14% of them from the UK and 10% from Asia.

Press Release

Beyond Bitcoin hype, can blockchain transform financial services?

May 6, 2021

The financial services and platform industry is beginning to understand the true value and potentially seismic impact of blockchain technology to generate new revenue, improve end-user experience, increase speed of transactions and build the trust of customers.

Press Release

Bitcoin in Your Bank Account? FIS, NYDIG Partner to Enable Banks to Offer Their Customers the Ability to Buy, Sell and Hold Bitcoin

May 5, 2021

Industry-first solution for FIS’ core banking clients enables them to offer their customers the ability to buy, sell and hold bitcoin.

Capital Markets Digital Assets

The dismal debut IPO of Coinbase

April 20, 2021

Where now for #bitcoin? It is widely accepted. A crypto exchange or 'Crypto company' has been listed. Institutional investors and central banks are increasingly adopting it. So where is the problem?

Digital Assets Investment Banking

Hey Citi, your bitcoin report is NOT embarrassingly bad

April 7, 2021

It is a matter of ‘when’, and no longer ‘if’, banks completely adopt crypto trading, and are accepted into the wider crypto eco-system. You can be pretty sure that when the time comes, Citi will work with companies like BlockFi and exchanges like Uniswap.

COVID-19 Investment Banking

The Seven Most Influential Disruptors of Investment Banking in 2021 so Far

April 3, 2021

This March, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, said in an interview with Bloomberg that “There’s a very good chance you’re going to have a gangbusters economy for the rest of this year and easily into 2022.”

Press Release

Ledgermatic Aims To Challenge Banks’ Crossborder Payment Stranglehold, White Paper Reveals

March 25, 2021

Ledgermatic promises a low-cost, cross border payment corridor and reduced banking touchpoints by up to 60%.

Digital Assets Regulator

Coinbase’s Listing on Nasdaq signals Crypto adoption

March 22, 2021

A majority of our net revenue is derived from transactions in Bitcoin and Ethereum. If demand for these crypto assets declines and is not replaced by new crypto asset demand, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.

Press Release

Macro Hive Becomes First Ever Full Service Financial Research Firm To Accept Bitcoin For Payment

March 11, 2021

Digital Assets Regulator

Crypto – popular in the US, Russia, Nigeria and a few other countries

March 2, 2021

“Bitcoin is like the first plane built by the Wright Brothers. They built it using human intuition and imitation of birds, long before fluid dynamics were formulated. Bitcoin was built by Satoshi using intuition and heuristics, and he didn’t start with a theoretical framework as the foundation.”

Digital Assets

As Bitcoin nears $1 trillion market cap, can comparing Crypto to Forex trading help understand what next?

February 18, 2021

Bitcoin has already overtaken the market cap of huge companies like Tesla and Facebook. It is still a bit behind Apple, Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet (Google), but once it gets to just above $55,000 per coin, it will join the $1 trillion+ club.

Digital Assets

Cuba, Libya and Syria comprise Top 10 Crypto-loving countries

February 11, 2021

Countries which rank lower on The Human Freedom Index, or which are politically turbulent for other reasons, feature frequently in the top 10.

Capital Markets Digital Assets

Speculative fictions: GameStop, Bitcoin and beyond

February 9, 2021

All assets experience ups and downs, albeit not that extreme, but how can you tell which direction Bitcoin will go from £30,000?The problem is you can’t.

Banking Fintech

The Good, the Bad and JPMorgan’s 2020 Results

January 18, 2021

You might have heard the news about Plaid’s failed acquisition by VISA? $5.3 billion was the amount the fintech was reported to be going for, before the deal fell through.

Digital Assets

Is the SEC fallout the end of the road for XRP?

January 14, 2021

We wrote about the dire warnings released by the FCA just this week as well. Following on from which it is also widely reported that banks in the UK are preventing their customers from depositing gains from their cryptocurrency assets.

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