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The lack of public accessibility is the biggest barrier to the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency. While many companies, such as Unbanked, VISA, and Square, have embraced and integrated various internationally accessible platforms and programs, tech giants like Meta have not been involved until now.
The recent wave of financial innovation related to digitalisation has the potential to change the landscape of financial service providers quite dramatically, creating the need for a flexible regulatory framework that can accommodate these changes while safeguarding stability. This column introduces a new eBook that takes stock of financial digitalisation over the past decade
Here today, gone tomorrow. Did Switzerland profit at all from Facebook's Libra/Diem crypto project?
MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content See the latest Australian dollar analysis here: Introduction In recent months the price of Bitcoin has risen sharply on balance, despite some fluctuations. The largest cryptocurrency’s latest price spike is prompting talk about Bitcoin’s future. Pressing questions are coming up. Is Bitcoin money or not? Why is Bitcoin valuable? And what does the future hold? There are 7223 words left in this subscriber-only article. Skeptics anticipate a collapse at some point, while true crypto believers see Bitcoin as the currency of the future. The discussio...
ENGLISH SECTION: Why banks need to pay attention to where a digital euro is heading The European Central Bank makes clear that the development of its “digital euro” will take several years. Yet given the geopolitical context and the potential impact, banks should better pay attention, ING analysts wrote. This week, the ECB published an overview of the consultation responses it received on its digital euro survey. The results show a variety of demands a digital euro would need to fulfil, including privacy, security, low costs and ease of use. Before discussing the ECB’s next steps, i...