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Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
With the Consultation Paper on Technical Standards for the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) aims to collect views, comments, and opinions from stakeholders and market participants on the appropriate implementation of the regulation. The paper comprising the "1st package" cov...
14 July 2023 /regulation /crypto
Arijit Goswami Innovation Manager at Capgemini
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a digital form of central bank money that is issued by a country's central bank and backed by the government. It is an innovative digital payment system that is gaining popularity among central banks worldwide. CBDCs have the potential to transform the financial system in many ways, including how insurance i...
02 June 2023 /retail /crypto
Nathaniel Ogunniyi Consultant, Public Affairs at FTI Consulting
A few weeks ago, the Treasury's consultation into the Regulatory Regime for Cryptoassets closed. First published back in February, the consultation asks for views on the Government’s intended regulations of cryptoassets. This is the second main stage in crypto regulation – moves to regulate stablecoins, where used as a means of payment, are alread...
30 May 2023 /payments /regulation
Todd Crosland Founder and CEO at CoinZoom
Born partly in reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, cryptocurrency was created as a radical alternative to the traditional financial industry. Rewind 15 years: banks that were “too big to fail” had failed and subsequently caused mass panic across the globe. These institutions that held most of the population’s money, lent out trillions of dollar...
12 May 2023 /inclusion /crypto
Retired Member
Cryptocurrency Ethereum, in early 2021 processed over one million transactions a day, a figure that stayed relatively stable in recent years. It is a meteoric growth, given its humble beginnings in August 2015. The use of digital tokens and decentralised systems powered by blockchain technology has exploded over the years, giving rise to issues li...
10 May 2023 /crypto
The recent approval of the Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) by the European Parliament marks a significant milestone in the regulation of the crypto-assets industry in Europe and beyond. MiCA will establish the first harmonized and comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto-assets and related services and activities in Europe, whic...
07 May 2023 /crypto
Some of the world's biggest brands are already involved - Nike, Disney, Budweiser, Warner Music and Starbucks. What exactly? Well, as Harvard Business Review put it, the “confusing, contested, exciting, utopian, scam-ridden, disastrous, democratizing, (maybe) decentralized world of Web3.” So, what's the hype all about? The term, first coined by Et...
05 May 2023 /inclusion /crypto
Kyla Curley Partner at StoneTurn
Stablecoins are designed to be stable and immune from the price volatility that plagues their crypto brethren. This makes stablecoins an integral part of the crypto ecosphere and an illustration for the use case of digital assets for business transactions, payment systems, and treasury functions. Stablecoins provide accessible on- and off-ramps be...
04 April 2023 /crypto /markets
Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 / Nucleus365
Cryptocurrency’s resilience to market volatility remains strong. As the decentralised finance (De-Fi) markets continue to recover from the ‘crypto winter’ crypto’s facilitation in e-commerce is on the rise - with an estimated 100,000 businesses worldwide now accepting crypto payments. For example, several world-renowned sports teams now accept cry...
04 April 2023 /payments /crypto
Benas Skridulis
Cryptocurrency scams are still rising. Thieves are using old techniques and coming up with new ones to steal crypto assets. Here are some of the common cryptocurrency scams to watch out for. Crypto giveaway There are many scam posts on popular social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Usually, they pretend to be major cryptocurrency exch...
22 March 2023 /crypto
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