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Once again, fintech was a hot topic at the annual ABS East conference in Miami Beach last month. But unlike in the past, the focus was not on the newest trend among marketplace lenders or payments companies, which are looking more like run of the mill banking institutions, but on how technology will enhance, digitize and eventually automate financial services. -
The Wild West days are not over in the cryptocurrency market, but the shoots of a more civilised and reliable market are beginning to poke through.
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For politicians looking for policy tools, bank capital regulations are a blank canvas. But using prudential regulation to direct lending to favoured causes lacks transparency, obscures difficult decisions and piles up risks.
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The decision to strip AIG of its designation as a systemically important financial institution (Sifi) says more about the arbitrary and confusing nature of the Sifi designation process, rather than the American insurance giant’s importance in the US financial system.
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KfW has joined the select group of capital markets institutions to have issued a security using blockchain technology. Though only a proof of concept, the transaction highlighted the fact that, without some kind of distributed ledger cash system, blockchain-based issuance has little to offer. If the technology is to realize its promise, central banks must weigh in and provide a solution.
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Last week saw the revival of a once glorious tradition; the spurious big bank M&A rumour. The trigger was an article suggesting UniCredit had approached the German government about buying Commerzbank, which was followed, in short order, by a suggestion that BNP Paribas was the preferred suitor.
