Saturday, April 20, 2024
Home > Risk (Page 8)

UK banks risk losing licenses for debanking customers over political views

The British government is reportedly set to announce measures that could see banks stripped of their license if they choose to debank customers due to their political views. A July 20 report from The Times said the United Kingdom’s government is considering tighter conditions on banking permits that would seek to

Read More

Lost keys have already cost billions of dollars, many more at risk — Polygon exec

While private or mnemonic keys offer many advantages for security, they also present practical challenges, according to Mudit Gupta, the chief information security officer of layer-2 scaling solution Polygon.Speaking at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) event on July 17, Gupta discussed the differences between theoretical security and practical security in the

Read More

Crypto Markets ‘Highly Dependent’ on Stablecoins Lacking Transparency, TrueUSD TUSD Poses Risk, Kaiko Says

The largest stablecoins have all endured periods of turmoil in the last few months. In February, New York state regulators ordered Paxos to halt minting Binance USD (BUSD), the third largest stablecoin at the time. Next month, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) temporarily froze a sizable portion of

Read More

31% of young Aussies hold crypto despite being ‘risk averse’ — ASX survey

Despite seeing themselves as more “risk averse” than their older counterparts, nearly a third of all young Australian investors hold or have traded cryptocurrencies over the last year, a new study has found.In an Australian investor study from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), 46% of “next generation investors” — the

Read More

Australia’s crypto laws risk being outpaced by emerging markets: Think tank

The Australian government needs to quicken its pace in developing crypto regulation or risk falling behind developing markets, according to the chair of a new crypto think tank.Loretta Joseph, chair of the Australian Digital Financial Standards Advisory Council (ADFSAC) — the newly launched policy institute under the ADC Forum —

Read More