Digital currency
Quant Lipton pans Facebook’s Libra
Former Bank of America exec sees more potential in rival projects, such as utility settlement coin
UBS exec: first trades via USC could take place this year
Risk Live: utility settlement coin project backed by group of banks moving “incredibly fast”
Transaction cost analysis of digital innovation governance in the UK energy market
The latest online early paper in our special issue on blockchain enabled energy markets
Digital forex settlement volume tipped to rise tenfold
DLT platform aims to settle $100 billion of currency trades by year-end
Wall Street vets vie to be BlackRock of crypto
Fund launch uses fundamental analysis to identify value propositions in high-risk industry
Crypto or super-correspondents: central banks look to the future
Research lays out three ways forward for cross-border payments
Risk.net podcast: OCC’s Fennell on Nasdaq breach, crypto and ‘skin in the game’
Clearing house is “seriously considering” contributing to own default waterfall
Quintenz: futures will allow regulated bitcoin exposure
New products allow investors to access digital currency in a monitored marketplace, says CFTC commissioner
Russian crypto-currency will threaten AML efforts
Targeting individuals and companies could be impossible with digital currency, write academics
Chicago exchanges embrace crypto-currency
Exchanges' interest piqued, but regulators and some market participants hesitant
The decline of the cash empire
Alex Lipton: the last line of defence between us and punitive negative rates is paper currency
Central banks eye advantages of digital currencies
BoE economist says digital currencies might improve real policy rates, tax rates and bank competition
Banks must embrace their digital destiny
Alexander Lipton believes the time is right for advanced digital banks to take the industry forward, and quants can lead the charge
Hirani, Masters and Wilson apply bitcoin to settlement risk
Derivatives market pioneers co-opt bitcoin tech in bid to transform mainstream markets
Bitcoin regulation challenges and complexities
Funny money
Banks and regulators 'must take Bitcoin more seriously'
Industry unclear on future of Bitcoin