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Blockchain Revolution Series

Banco Santander sets up new team to explore blockchain use in securities transactions

Jul 16, 2018 04:59 am UTC| Digital Currency Fintech

Spanish banking giant Banco Santander last week announced its plans to leverage blockchain and other cutting-edge technologies within its capital markets business to transform how securities are issued, traded and...

Digital Currency Revolution

Denial of access to traditional banking gateways potentially anticompetitive to cryptocurrency market: EU Parliament report

Jul 13, 2018 10:46 am UTC| Digital Currency Fintech

A recent report prepared for the European Parliament has identified digital currencies as one of the key areas representing the evolution of fintech services. The report, Competition issues in the Area of Financial...

Blockchain Revolution Series

A number of blockchain applications under review at BoT: Governor Santiprabhob

Jul 13, 2018 05:03 am UTC| Digital Currency Fintech

The Bank of Thailand is currently reviewing blockchain applications for cross-border payments, supply chain financing, and document authentication, Governor Dr. Veerathai Santiprabhob said recently. Speaking at the...

Digital Currency Revolution

Crypto-backed credit comes to Uphold users via Libra Credit partnership

Jul 13, 2018 03:32 am UTC| Digital Currency Fintech

Digital money platform Uphold is collaborating with Libra Credit, a decentralized global lending network, to offer its users access to a variety of Libra Credit products. Founded by former PayPal financial technology...

Digital Currency Revolution

Purse.io reckons Bitcoin cash better than other altcoins for instant transactions – Lingering BCH/USD dips on flurry of bearish signals

Jul 12, 2018 09:11 am UTC| Technicals Research & Analysis Insights & Views Digital Currency Fintech

The price of BCHUSD pair is experiencing a major bearish trend. The minor trend of BCHUSD slides through falling wedge formation (refer daily chart). Shooting Star patterns pop up at stiff resistance (at 755.4 and...

Blockchain Revolution Series

IVY League Universities Keen on FinTech Courses, London School of Economics to Launch Online Cryptocurrency Course

Jul 11, 2018 14:13 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Fintech Insights & Views

Amid the lingering prospects among the crypto-asset space, the keen interest continues to mount everywhere, reputed institutions from Big 4 auditing firms to the central banks of advanced economies have been investing into...

Digital Currency Revolution

Litecoin shrugs-off strategic collaboration, rallies restrain below 21-DMA – Stay short as shooting stars coupled with bearish momentum signal weakness

Jul 11, 2018 09:13 am UTC| Research & Analysis Technicals Fintech Insights & Views

The minor trend of LTCUSD (at BITFINEX) slides through sloping channel, while back-to-back shooting stars and hanging man pattern candlesticks have popped up at channel resistance to nudge price below DMAs, To substantiate...

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Economy

Nigerians throw naira notes around to show love: but it could land you in jail

The legal implication of physically damaging the naira, Nigerias currency, came into focus recently with the prosecution of at least two celebrities by the countrys Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Nigeria has a...

The US is one of the least trade-oriented countries in the world – despite laying the groundwork for today’s globalized system

Given the spate of news about international trade lately, Americans might be surprised to learn that the U.S. isnt very dependent on it. Indeed, looking at trade as a percentage of gross domestic product a metric...

Beyond the spin, beyond the handouts, here’s how to get a handle on what’s really happening on budget night

Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear about them on radio, TV or news websites on budget night. The quickest way to find out what...

Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility

Ivan Vladislavić is Johannesburgs literary linkman. He tells us, in the first pages of his new book, The Near North, that before cities were lit, first by gaslight and later electricity, people of means paid torchbearers...

Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget

With Jim Chalmerss third budget on May 14, Australians will be looking for some more cost-of-living relief beyond the tax cuts although they have been warned extra measures will be modest. As this weeks consumer price...

Politics

Sudan’s civil war is rooted in its historical favouritism of Arab and Islamic identity

The current civil war in Sudan goes beyond a simple power struggle between two generals. It reflects a deep-rooted crisis within the countrys governing structure thats been present since it gained independence from the...

South Africa’s youth are a generation lost under democracy – study

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently painted a rosy picture in which the countrys youth democracys children had enormous opportunities for advancement, all thanks to successive post-apartheid governments led...

Sadiq Khan on track for third term as London mayor – but nearly half of Londoners dissatisfied with performance

Polls have consistently shown that the incumbent mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, appears to be on track to win a third term in office at the upcoming mayoral elections on May 2. One poll we commissioned as part of our...

The politics stopping the UK from opening a youth mobility scheme with Europe

Earlier this week, it seemed possible that young people in the UK might soon be able to travel freely to work and live in Europe again. The European Commission laid out proposals to open mobility to millions of 18- to...

Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’

Most American workers are hired at will: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship except earned wages, and employees are at liberty to quit at their option. As the rule is generally stated, either party...

Science

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created during the Big Bang, these relic neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe, but they cant harm you. In fact, only one of them is...

The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this...

Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light

A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and cosmology for decades. Observations suggest that about 85% of all the matter in the universe is mysterious and invisible. These two qualities are...

A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars

While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, Nasas Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to...

The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth – and governments are on the hook

A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a mans home in Florida. Nasa later confirmed that the object had come from unwanted hardware released from the international space station. The 700g,...

Technology

Crypto.com's F1 Sponsorship Expansion Sparks Global Visibility Drive

Crypto.com, one of the top exchanges in the digital currency ecosystem, is set to expand its sporting ad budget. Notably, the trading platform is looking to expand its dominance in its push for global...

Stablecoins Set to Overtake Visa, Ripple CEO Affirms XRP and ETH Not Securities

Stablecoins are poised to challenge Visas dominance in payment volume, marking a significant shift in the crypto landscape. Meanwhile, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse asserts that XRP and Ethereum (ETH) are not securities,...

Justin Sun Dominates Swell L2 with 46% of Deposits in eETH

Justin Sun, founder of Tron, has again surged into the limelight, this time for his colossal cryptocurrency deposits. The crypto tycoon, utilizing the pseudonymous address 0x7a9…3095, recently funneled a staggering...

Leaked: New Huawei Luxeed SUV Images Fuel Anticipation for Tech Upgrades

Recently leaked photos allegedly showcasing the Huawei Luxeed SUV have ignited speculation over the vehicles advanced features and smart technology, potentially setting a new benchmark in the automotive...

Bitfinex CTO Deems Database Breach Claims 'Fake' Amidst Hacker Allegations

Bitfinexs Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoino has cast doubts on claims of a database breach by hacker organization FSOCIETY, branding the allegations as fake. Ardoino refuted the purported leak of 22,500 user emails...