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Alchemy Pay preps Web3 digital banking

Alchemy Pay preps Web3 digital banking

Singapore-based fiat-crypto payments firm Alchemy Pay has unveiled a Web3 digital banking platform for enterprises.

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Mastercard picks new batch of crypto and blockchain Start Path firms

Mastercard picks new batch of crypto and blockchain Start Path firms

Striking the balance: Navigating e-commerce trends

Striking the balance: Navigating e-commerce trends

Mastercard and Standard Chartered pilot tokenised deposits

Mastercard and Standard Chartered pilot tokenised deposits

Broadridge to offer JPM Coin as settlement mechanism for DLR platform

Broadridge to offer JPM Coin as settlement mechanism for DLR platform

Kima bids to build a 'DeFi credit card’

Kima bids to build a 'DeFi credit card’

US Elections: Stand With Crypto forms committee to support pro-crypto candidates

US Elections: Stand With Crypto forms committee to support pro-crypto candidates

Canada fines Binance C$6m for AML violations

Canada fines Binance C$6m for AML violations

Global mobile banking malware surges 32%

Global mobile banking malware surges 32%

KfW to issue blockchain-based digital bond

KfW to issue blockchain-based digital bond

Revolut launches crypto exchange

Revolut launches crypto exchange

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Striking the balance: Navigating e-commerce trends

Striking the balance: Navigating e-commerce trends

Speaking at MPE 2024, Karan Johal, Global Head of Sales at Ecommpay, discusses emerging trends and challenges in the e-commerce sector, focusing on contactless payments, customer expectations, security, and the role of alternative payment methods (APMs) in enhancing the payment experience and expanding geographical reach for merchants.
Enabling connectivity across blockchains

Enabling connectivity across blockchains

At Sibos 2023, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink, discusses how institutions are enabling connectivity and interoperability through collaboration across public and private blockchains.
Navigating the DLT and Blockchain Ecosystem

Navigating the DLT and Blockchain Ecosystem

Sabih Behzad, Head of Digital Assets & Currencies, Corporate Bank, DEUTSCHE BANK, speaks at Sibos 2023 about the evolution of DLT and Blockchain within the financial services space, the challenges of implementation, and strategies needed to achieve momentum and scale for the future.
Emerging Trends in Correspondent Banking

Emerging Trends in Correspondent Banking

Timo Florian Zwez, General Manager Germany, Head of IB DACH, Banking Circle, speaks at EBAday 2023 about significant transformations occurring in correspondent banking, the impact of sanctions on this sector, and how evolving business models, Neo-banks, crypto, and Embedded Finance, are influencing correspondent banking today and in the future.
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Hamish Monk

Ukraine’s crypto adoption: Why alternative finance is increasingly vital

Hamish Monk - Writer - Finextra
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Next-gen estate planning: Time to embrace digital transformation
Kuldeep Shrimali

Kuldeep Shrimali

  Only 26% of Americans Have an Estate Plan.  https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2024/04/23/only-26-of-americans-have-an-estate-plan/

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EBAday 2024: The future of CBDCs, tokenised deposits and stablecoin adoption
Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light

  "we must not forget the contribution that retail central bank money has made to monetary and financial stability." The BoE ties itself in knots trying to justify a retail CBDC - in the same speech the deputy governor admits that cash has dropped from around two-thirds of transactions twenty years ago to 14% in 2022. This drop has had no impact on monetary or financial stability and it demonstrates consumers have no preference for central bank money over commercial bank deposits (and I doubt most have any idea of the difference risk profiles of the two). In the past, cash was a source of instability as it provided a mechanism for a bank run, with depositors able to withdraw their savings en masse. Nowadays, if a bank is in trouble depositors are highly unlikely to withdraw cash at scale but instead transfer deposits electronically to other banks (as happened with Northern Rock in 2008) - the banking system may freeze up for a while as banks refuse to lend reserves to each other when large volumes of deposits are transferred between banks, but the total value of deposits in the banking system remains the same and locked-in without cash withdrawals. A retail CBDC would reintroduce this stability risk if depositors are able to withdraw deposits instantly out of the banking system electronically into a retail CBDC, causing a run on multiple banks. The interesting aspect of this speech is that a wholesale CBDC is gaining traction in the BoE's plans. A wholesale CBDC is in the sweetspot of a central bank and has some real benefits - hopefully the BoE will focus more on a wholesale CBDC and quietly kick the retail CBDC idea into the long grass. 

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Turkish crypto chief starts 11,196-year prison sentence
A Finextra Member

A Finextra member

  So where did all the money go? Have Authorities recovered anything? After 11,196-years of inflation it will be worthless. Maybe he invested in an index tracker. He'll own everything in the universe in 11,196 years.  

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Turkish crypto chief starts 11,196-year prison sentence
A Finextra Member

A Finextra member

  So where did all the money go? Have Authorities recovered anything? After 11,196-years of inflation it will be worthless.

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Blockchain researchers use AI to spot Bitcoin money laundering

Blockchain researchers use AI to spot Bitcoin money laundering

Revolut vets launch crypto exchange

Revolut vets launch crypto exchange

EU expands AML regulation impacting cryptocurrency compliance

EU expands AML regulation impacting cryptocurrency compliance

Visa develops dashboard to make sense of stablecoin activity

Visa develops dashboard to make sense of stablecoin activity

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Vid Hribar

From cash to crypto: Understanding the changing face of money

Vid Hribar - Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystems Analyst, RBI
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    Crypto scam: Man scammed out of six-figure sum gets money back

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Sehrish Alikhan

EU CBDC: What do we know so far about the digital euro?

Sehrish Alikhan - Reporter, Finextra