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The US Federal Reserve, the country’s central banking entity, recently called up the nation’s biggest banks to present their views regarding the launch of Facebook’s digital currency project Libra. Not surprisingly, most of them turned out to be negative and some even said that it could be a potential threat
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The chief economist of Dutch multinational banking and financial services giant ING says that Facebook’s plan to launch a digital currency has put pressure on central banks to launch their own.In an article and video interview published on ING’s THINK portal on Sept. 27, Mark Cliffe said that there
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While addressing the committee on Digital Agenda of the Deutscher Bundestag, the chairman of the Committee on Payments and Markets Infrastructures (CPMI) and the European Central Bank (ECB) board member, Benoit Coeure, took the time to give an in-depth explanation on the challenges facing our age-long financial market, how digital
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About Richard KasteleinFounder and publisher of industry publication Blockchain News (EST 2015), a partner at ICO services collective Token.Agency ($750m+ and 90+ ICOs and STOs), director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) – Vancouver native Richard Kastelein is an award-winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur. He sits on the
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Libra, the cryptocurrency that is expected to be launched by Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) in 2020, has proven to be the biggest disruptor in the crypto sphere since June. Policymakers, central bankers, and even politicians have expressed their skepticism with regards to the project. Relief for Crypto Traders? The announcement in July created massive
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York very quietly handed out $75 billion in cash to the banks on Wednesday in a process known as a ‘repurchase operation,’ or repo. This emergency measure hasn’t been used at scale for a decade, since the last financial crisis. It’s a reminder of the central
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Libra, the planned cryptocurrency led by Facebook, is to be questioned by officials from 26 central banks in Switzerland today. Representatives from the heavily scrutinized project will face a grilling by officials from central banks, including the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, over the cryptocurrency’s “scope and design.” Since
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Christine Lagarde, the Chair of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for a balanced approach to cryptocurrencies and said that the financial supervisors and central banks should be more open to digital currencies, in an opening statement to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament.The statement
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One of the major problems for businesses in the cryptocurrency industry is finding a bank that agrees to work with them and connect them to the traditional fiat financial system.
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The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has reportedly granted two banking and securities dealer licences to crypto-focused banks.Two Swiss crypto-specializing firms, Seba Crypto AG and Sygnum have received banking and securities dealer licenses, the banks said in separate statements on Aug. 26.With the new license, Seba expects to
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