Cryptocurrencies

The Future of Finance Meetings bring together a variety of high-profile financial speakers. We will host a series of discussions, articles and interviews across all of our chosen themes: Data, Digital Identity, Securities, Asset Management, Law and Regulation, Payments, Money, Insurance, Pensions, Real Estate, Technology and Funding FinTechs. Follow this page for further updates.

What cryptocurrency “prime brokerage” might and might not mean for digital asset markets

A Future of Finance Webinar on 9 February 2023 at 2pm UK time Prime brokerage is a well-established and well-understood discipline in both the foreign exchange (FX) and the securities markets, in which buy- and sell-side traders use the reputation and balance sheet of an investment bank to trade with multiple counterparties, often on a…

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SDX services non-custodial Ethereum staking service is live

[SEP 2022] Key Insights From This Interview • Swiss digital exchange SDX has launched a cryptocurrency staking service that enables holders of Ether to earn income on their assets by claiming “mining” rewards for running software that validates or attests blocks of transactions for applications running on the Layer 1 Ethereum blockchain. • SDX is…

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Why the case for regulating cryptocurrencies is becoming unanswerable

A summary of the webinar of July 14 2022 entitled Why the case for regulating cryptocurrencies is becoming unanswerable. SUMMARY 0.25: What is the case for regulating cryptocurrencies? The dream of Satoshi Nakamoto – the replacement of inflationary central bank-issued fiat currency transformed by the lending activities of banks into commercial bank money by a…

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Why the case for regulating cryptocurrencies is becoming unanswerable (14 July 2022)

A Future of Finance webinar with regulators, lawyers, cryptocurrency players, exchanges, banks, digital asset players and technology companies Thursday July 14 at 2pm UK time The peer-to-peer system of cash outlined by Satoshi Nakamoto in his famous paper of October 2008 did not mention regulators or regulations. But its ambition of dispensing with trusted third…

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Hex Trust see sample opportunities for growth at home and abroad

Hex Trust see sample opportunities for growth at home and abroad Growing institutional interest in crypto-currencies, not least as a hedge against rising inflation, has spawned a range of custodial services to safeguard the private keys without which nobody can access the digital wallet that contains the assets. Hex Trust, the Hong Kong based provider…

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Algorand pioneer Yieldly is building bridges to the future of DeFi

Algorand pioneer Yieldly is building bridges to the future of DeFi The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) markets are synonymous with the Ethereum blockchain protocol. So it is quite an event when an ambitious DeFi application chooses to launch its offering on another one. That is exactly what Yieldly, the provider of staking contracts and a no…

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Rising institutional interest in cryptocurrencies could herald the greatest change in financial markets for centuries

There are many reasons why established financial institutions are starting to trade and invest in cryptocurrencies but their interest is certainly driving the development of services which match what they expect to find in the traditional foreign exchange (FX) and securities markets.

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How to Do Prime Brokerage Without Prime Brokers

As investment banks shrink the balance sheet available to buy-side firms that like to trade on credit, the need for an alternative has become urgent. To fill the gap, San Francisco-based Bosonic has adapted the tokenisation and atomic settlement techniques pioneered by the crypto-currency markets.

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Summary and Highlights: Rising institutional interest in crypto-currencies could herald the greatest change in financial markets for centuries webinar

There are many reasons why established financial institutions are starting to trade and invest in crypto-currencies but their interest is certainly driving the development of services which match what they expect to find in the traditional foreign exchange (FX) and securities markets. Substitutes for the traditional means by which counterparty credit and settlement risk are…

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Corporate treasurers are venturing into the crypto-currency markets

The investments in Bitcoin by Ruffer and MassMutual may have caught the headlines, but crypto-currencies are becoming a tool for corporate treasurers to manage their liabilities as well as a source of capital growth for asset managers.

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INSTITUTIONAL ADOPTION IN CRYPTO MARKETS (24th March 2021)

INSTITUTIONAL ADOPTION IN CRYPTO MARKETS (24th March 2021) A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH DIGITAL ASSET INVESTORS, FOREIGN EXCHANGE EXPERTS, BANKS AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES  Wednesday March 24 2021, 16.00 – 17.00 UK time With all the excitement being generated by institutional investment in crypto markets, it is easy to forget that a strong business case has…

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