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  • Bitcoin has, since its creation, been a wild ride. Volatility is part of its charm — after all, where else do you get more than 1,500% growth in a year? But if, or when, it crashes for good, how would it play out?
  • Cryptocurrencies overtook venture capital as the dominant form of fundraising for start-ups in 2017. Now, a grown-up, publicly listed company is getting in on the action. Investment banks would do well to take notice.
  • Kodak will hold an initial coin offering (ICO) on January 31 to sell Kodakcoin, the first cryptocurrency to be issued by a listed company, putting the burgeoning asset class in competition with established capital markets products like shares and bonds.
  • With all the excitement around bitcoin and its introduction into established futures markets at the end of 2017, it is perhaps not surprising that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s first public order of business in 2018 has addressed those markets.
  • When the shadowy figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto launched bitcoin in 2009, few predicted that the technology underpinning it would, in a few short years, be hailed as an invention as important as the internet. Capital markets are on the front line for disruption, writes Lewis McLellan.
  • The cryptocurrency boom has been mostly confined to the corporate world. But, some of the more forward-thinking countries are planning on getting into the digital currency game. They should know better.