GameStop fiasco: EU regulators to probe zero-commission stock trading February 23, 2021 Steven Maijoor, the chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, confirmed today his regulatory body is looking into zero-commission trading. Addressing the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament earlier today, Maijoor warned about the “gamification” of investing and stated that trading strategies designed to secure the price of a financial [...]
Institutional market has soared in 2021, says Coinbase June 11, 2021 Coinbase, the global cryptocurrency exchange platform, says it has witnessed an unprecedented growth in the institutional market in the first quarter of 2021.
Non-fungible tokens – looking at the legal issues March 18, 2021 Non–fungibletokens(NFTs) are big news. NFTs are special types of cryptographic tokens. Unlike cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, that are fungible (i.e. one bitcoin can be exchanged for another), NTCs are not interchangeable. Each NFT is a unique token on a blockchain, but unlike crypto, they store extra information which provide collectors the opportunity to build a digital [...]
E-naira: Digitising Nigeria, improving lives, and advancing national infrastructure August 25, 2021 Nigeria is more amazing than the world realises, and the nation deserves far more attention, says Alex Lightman.
Crowdfunding: Fintech app Curve rakes in £10m in just 54 hours May 28, 2021 Fintech app Curve has raked in nearly £10m in just 54 hours, in the largest equity raise on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube’s record. A collection of 11,795 investors pushed the equity raise into near double digits, breaking multiple records during Crowdcube’s campaign. Closing at 3pm yesterday, investors raised £9.9m. The fintech app, which connects all bank accounts [...]
London transport hit by ‘aggressive’ marketing ‘assault’ from crypto meme coin Floki October 27, 2021 A digital token named after Elon Musk’s new dog, Floki, has rolled out hundreds of adverts in the capital in what it’s called “a full-out assault of the London public transportation system,” raising questions as to who is responsible for high-risk investments being advertised so widely. Floki Inu coin is one of many dog “meme” [...]
UK advertising watchdog probes crypto meme coin Floki’s marketing ‘assault’ on London transport November 17, 2021 The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has bowed to calls for an investigation into an ad campaign for a digital token named after Elon Musk’s new dog, Floki, after hundreds of adverts for the cryptocurrency appeared across the capital’s transport network. A spokesperson for the ASA told City AM that the watchdog is currently investigating the [...]
Coinbase shares jump 50 per cent on debut, valuing it at $100bn April 14, 2021 Coinbase shares jump 50 per cent on debut, valuing it at $100bn
How have crypto market moves affected consumer behaviour online? November 14, 2021 Ed Lavery explains how crypto market moves have affected consumer behaviour online.
Decentralised Finance aka “DeFi” – A Bigger Bang September 1, 2020 In 2008 the financial world changed when Bitcoin was released into the wild and started the decentralised financial (“DeFi”) revolution which is now gathering pace. This was a Big Bang event and this new DeFi universe expanded quickly, initially there were just clones of Bitcoin, one project was very different from Bitcoin. That project is [...]