City A.M. TV: Daily Market Snapshot (video) March 25, 2021 Risk aversion continued to work its way through global financial markets yesterday.
UK leads race across Europe to introduce interbank digital currency April 19, 2021 The UK is ahead of the curve when it comes to digital currency adoption, according to new research, and could A report by PwC reveals the UK is fifth in the world when it comes to preparing for the adoption of a central digital currency although a consumer offer remains a while off yet. Like [...]
Binance’s Yi He: “My talent has always been trying to challenge myself” July 15, 2022 In a rare interview, Crypto AM meets Yi He - the Binance co-founder who likes to keep out of the spotlight but wants to push CEO CZ to be more public.
Latest Crypto findings paint a positive and yet terrifying picture as dark underbelly lurks June 17, 2021 An estimated 2.3m adults hold cryptocurrencies, up from 1.9m last year, according to the City of London’s financial regulator. While ownership of cryptocurrencies has increased, understanding of them appears to have gone down, according to the findings from the Financial Conduct Authority, published earlier today. Attitudes towards cryptocurrencies, or cryptoassets, appear to have changed, according [...]
Crypto A.M. shines its Spotlight on CommerceBlock, London’s most innovative BlockChain infrastructure company August 18, 2020 Hype in the blockchain and DeFi space has reached new, overwhelming heights. It can be difficult to differentiate between fact and fiction, but when you do find a project providing innovative technical solutions, it’s a breath of fresh air–especially when their primary focus is on development and not creating vacuous buzz. Led by financial technology [...]
Old Mutual restores dividend despite annual loss March 23, 2021 South Africa’s Old Mutual declared a dividend of 35c per share on Tuesday after swinging to a pre-tax loss in 2020. Group profits were slashed by the pandemic, forcing the company to set aside billions of rand in provisions. Old Mutual cut final dividend by 53 per cent to 35c per share, equating to a [...]
Why we built a better Tether January 27, 2021 This week I had a long meeting with the FCA reviewing our fully regulated Peer to Peer savings and loan platform JustUs. The FCA has the unenviable task of trying to stress test the health of the financial services industry in the middle of a health and economic crisis via their quarterly “Covid19 Financial Impact [...]
Big money is already in crypto markets, but we’ve only just reached the tip of a slow moving iceberg August 19, 2020 Announcements have becoming fast and furious about traditional financial firms investing in digital assets or crypto startups; so often, in fact, that blink and you’ll miss’em. Hedge funds and retail-focused products are celebrating major fundraises and traditional banks are leading or planning to lead investment rounds in blockchain firms. A publicly traded company has converted [...]
HMRC: We’re not clamping down on crypto April 29, 2021 Government tax officials say they are not gearing up to crack down on people’s cryptocurrency assets, despite widely circulated rumours this week.
City A.M. TV: Daily Market Snapshot (video) February 9, 2021 With a number of US equity indices pushing out to new highs yesterday, the key near term question is: Are markets about to top? Or does the upside move just gets going? In this brief clip, we think about the answers to those questions and examine the evidence. On one hand, for example, it’s well [...]