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  • Regulators in the United States were afforded greater powers to scrutinise cryptocurrency spot markets this week, as supervisory bodies around the world come to grips with the nascent asset class.
  • China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) has added the central limit order book and executable streaming price features to the onshore interbank FX market — a move which helps close the gap in FX trading technology between China and the international markets.
  • In the wake of Venezuela’s launch of petro, an oil-backed digital currency under the control of the nation’s central bank, a host of sovereign cryptocurrency products have emerged. For some nations, it is a ploy to circumvent sanctions but, for others, it could provide an important piece of future infrastructure for blockchain based settlement.
  • Governments and central banks around the world are announcing plans for state run cryptocurrencies. While some developing countries are keen to do so to circumvent international sanctions, cryptocurrencies from developed countries could form a major part of blockchain settlement infrastructure.
  • Part of the job of a financial regulator is to protect the general public from itself by keeping dangerous financial instruments on the top shelf, behind the cookie jar. But the rules don’t make sense.
  • Venezuela has become the first sovereign nation to launch a cryptocurrency. While few outside Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s administration are impressed by the pioneering venture, others are expected to follow suit nonetheless, write Lewis McLellan, Costas Mourselas and Oliver West.