DeFi

Singapore Fintech Festival officially kicked off yesterday. In the first episode of The Foundational Fireside Series – How Financial Services Will Change?, Vikram Pandit, Chairman and CEO of The Orogen Group and former CEO of Citigroup explored how Capital Markets are set to change in the next one to three years.

Digital Assets

What About DeFi? With Celo and Chainlink at #SgFinTechFest

November 8, 2021

It’s been a vigorous first day at the #SgFinTechFest. The Festival has already over-exceeded expectations after the first day. While stablecoins haven’t come up quite as much as at other FinTech events, crypto was out in full force. Moderated by Morgan Beller, General Partner of NFX, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink and Rene Reinsberg, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Celo met to discuss all things DeFi.

Blockchain Digital Assets Technology

Institutional Investors in DeFi

November 5, 2021

Konstantin Anissimov, CEO of CEX.IO, shared his thoughts with us on why and how institutional investors have become more involved in decentralised finance.

Press Release

Dispersion Holdings PLC announces acquisition of DeFi Yield Technologies Inc.

October 25, 2021

Dispersion (AQSE: DEFI), an incubator specialising in decentralised finance ("DeFi"), is pleased to announce the proposed acquisition of the entire share capital not already owned by Dispersion of Defi Yield Technologies Inc. ("DFTI"), a platform for investment into decentralised financial services, for a consideration to be satisfied by the issue of 348,725,646 new ordinary shares in Dispersion.

Events Fintech

What is happening at Singapore Fintech Festival this year?

October 22, 2021

Over three days, the Festival will bring together global knowledge sharing from leading academics, practitioners and thought leaders across 45 reimagined sessions covering designing, building and ensuring sustainable financial services for Web 3.0.

Digital Assets

How should we regulate cryptoexchanges like Binance?

October 4, 2021

How do the courts and regulators go about protecting consumers (and their money) from cryptoexchanges like Binance, whilst avoiding stifling innovation in this rapidly developing space? To discuss this, we spoke to James Burnie.

Digital Assets

Ask Coinbase Anything at Money2020

September 22, 2021

One of the differences in the way that this year’s Money2020 has been organized is the availability of the Speakeasy room where a small group of fintech nerds can #AskMeAnything from selected speakers. One of those speakers was Marcus Hughes, the Managing Director of Europe for Coinbase, and the editorial team at #DisruptionBanking were delighted to be invited to hear what he had to say:

Digital Assets

Traders prepare to pursue recovery for millions in losses caused by Binance

August 19, 2021

“We should not have any more than the barest minimum of regulation, but the trillion dollar or $100 billion companies that take our money for profit have a responsibility to their consumers. There has to be rules. There has to be regulations. There has to be some way where, if something goes wrong, you can hold someone accountable."

Fintech

Is London ready for DeFi?

July 20, 2021

DeFi may not have filled as many hours of discussion as Open Banking or Payments at Fintech Week London last week. But, there was no way the organizers could leave it off the agenda.

Digital Assets Fintech Technology

How is DeFi eating traditional finance?

July 6, 2021

Arthur sees DeFiance as a crypto investment fund, based on the traditional model of investing client money to realise returns, but all within the alternative DeFi ecosystem.

Digital Assets

DeFi’s Oracle Problem, with ChainLinkGod

July 5, 2021

“While we tend to choose to ignore the noise from the Chainlink community, we feel obliged to react in this instance due to the gravity of the accusation.” Kunkel explains, “MakerDAO does not participate in nor benefit from liquidations in neither the Maker Protocol nor other protocols.

Press Release

Crypto Curry Club to host event on bringing compliance to institutional DeFi

June 18, 2021

Crypto Curry Club will be hosting a panel of experts to discuss 'Why is DeFi so hard to regulate?'

Blockchain Digital Assets

From CypherPunks to DeFi

June 10, 2021

Since around 2018, we have seen the emerging cryptocurrency trend morph into a broader decentralised finance (DeFi) movement.

#DisruptionChat Events Fintech

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

DeFi specialist, Dispersion Holdings first day of dealings on AQSE

April 30, 2021

DeFi is a disruptive technology that uses the blockchain and cryptocurrencies to remove financial intermediaries from transactions creating a quicker, cheaper, more efficient and more secure way of providing financial services.

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.

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