Founders Spotlight: a conversation with Amy Kalnoki of Bitwave July 15, 2024 I had the opportunity to interview Amy Kalnoki, the Co-Founder and COO of Bitwave, the number one digital asset finance platform for enterprises.
Are Blockchain Limitations Stifling Arbitrage Opportunities? July 7, 2020 Cryptocurrency exchanges have grown exponentially since 2017, catering to retail, institutional, and an ever-growing crowd of sophisticated calibre traders who have set up high-frequency algorithmic strategies. Notably, in the past few years, spot exchanges have taken markets by storm, adding leveraged derivatives to their suite of trading products. Derivative products have given traders an array [...]
Crypto firm Luno appoints new CFO March 31, 2021 Leading global cryptocurrency operation Luno has appointed banking veteran Alwyn Jones as Chief Financial Officer.
Bitcoin crashes from libra high after Coinbase outage June 27, 2019 Bitcoin sank almost $2,000 to give up gains last night as volatility returned after the cryptocurrency approached $14,000. Read more: Bitcoin surges towards $13,000 thanks to Facebook libra Facebook libra’s launch had buoyed bitcoin, pushing the price up until it was just shy of $14,000 last night, its highest level since January 2018. But over [...]
Bitcoin: Is it starting to feel like 2017 all over again? June 27, 2019 By Gary McFarlane from interactive investor. Bitcoin’s decisive break above the psychologically important $10,000 mark – with $11,000 breached over the weekend and in sight again – is being driven by institutional investors and the afterglow from Facebook’s Libra news, despite the regulatory and political pushback against Mark Zuckerberg’s global money plans. Also, the recommendations, as expected, from [...]
G7 leaders commit to green Covid-19 recovery led by free trade February 19, 2021 The leaders of the G7 economies today committed to delivering a green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The group – which is made up of the UK, US, Japan, Italy, France, Germany, and Canada – pledged to support free trade and co-operation in the face of [...]
Bitcoin extends losses after Fed chair criticises Facebook’s Libra July 11, 2019 Bitcoin has fallen over five per cent this morning following comments from US Federal reserve chair Jay Powell that Facebook’s Libra currency should be halted. Read more: US stocks hit record highs after Fed chair hints at rate cuts Powell told a congressional committee yesterday that Libra, which Facebook labels a cryptocurrency, “cannot go forward” [...]
WeWork to accept crypto payments April 20, 2021 Shared office space provider WeWork has announced it will be accepting cryptocurrency payments from clients.
From Crypto to Tokens. The Great Migration December 1, 2020 My journey to crypto was not direct. I’d spent 20 years working for traditional banking houses, trading foreign exchange for Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and others. The high points in my career came during the most chaotic times, managing trading books through devaluations in Asia, Latin America and Iceland. I spent my first career studying [...]
Are the days of the US dollar as world’s reserve currency numbered? April 20, 2022 The US dollar has been the world’s reserve currency for more than 100 years, but how long will it be before we seen a new unit of exchange replacing it