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Banks face an uncertain future as finance goes digital
Markets are looking to the authorities to simplify blockchain issues, but they may not have the purest motives
The German state development bank this week proved a digital bond can survive losing its registrar. It was another proof of concept for digitalised bonds but only the ECB can make the market real
◆ First in-life registrar and blockchain change ◆ Digital premium compresses from 10bp to 3bp ◆ Deal draws first international investor
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Four companies involved in clearing said on Tuesday they had completed a proof of concept using distributed ledger technology that they said will make margin calls for derivatives more efficient. -
When bitcoin futures were launched in December last year, there was excitement, fear and outrage all at once. Critics, including the Futures Industry Association, piled pressure on to US derivatives regulator the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, demanding better safeguards for such products. Cheerleaders may see the asset class as a great way to earn big in markets dogged by low yields but the doubters, of which Byte Me is one, may yet be proven right.
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Monday made public its worries about cryptocurrency crime, advising banks on how they could properly scrutinise clients involved in the nascent sector.
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Blockchain technology will be a wide ranging structural improvement to underlying infrastructure of the securitization market, said panellists on Wednesday, but the technology is going to need a “proof of concept” before institutions will be convinced to move away from legacy systems.
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Cryptocurrencies had an incredible run last year, but for them to really hit the mainstream, their advocates should study the sort of old money institutions many of them oppose: central banks.
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The minefield of what a cryptocurrency is might have been able to remain comfortably in the realms of the philosophical, if it were not for the relentlessly grounded and literal approach of the US Internal Revenue Service.
