The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, met on last week to reaffirm its expectations on implementing Basel III and to provide direction on key areas of work by the Committee. Basel Committee The resurgence ofContinue…
The London and Monaco based fund manager, Altana Wealth, has launched a new Digital Assets Fund that will invest in Blockchain Technology across a wide spectrum of sectors. Altana Wealth, the asset management company based in London with an affiliate company based in Monaco has been a crypto pioneer sinceContinue…
Proliferation at an accelerating pace of crypto hedge fund is estimated in the latest PwC Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report to reach more than 300 Even with the tremendous volatility in the sector, there are many more traditional hedge funds investing in crypto and more specialist crypto funds being createdContinue…
The latest article by the crypto economist Ryan Shea questionning the accusations of environmental impact of cryptocurrencies. Late last month Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, together with Greenpeace, launched a “Change the Code, Not the Climate” campaign to put pressure on Bitcoin and its community to follow in Ethereum’s footsteps andContinue…
“Is cryptocurrency the dog that failed to bark?” An article by Philip Middleton, Chairman of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute. War is a crucible of innovation, not all of it necessarily malign – think of penicillin. In Russia’s cowardly and horrific assault upon Ukraine, some cryptocurrency enthusiasts have declared that the war isContinue…
Discussions of Bitcoin’s energy usage and its indirect environmental impact have occured since the very early days of its release, becoming a recurring subject that tends to get resurrected in full force with each successive market cycle. As concerns began to ramp up last year under the guise of ESG, CoinSharesContinue…
Ryan Shea, crypto economist at Trakx is sharing with us its latest article entitled Fed Fears In previous articles I made the case that owning a non-readily-printable form of money, namely one with a fixed or limited supply, is valuable and set to become even more valuable in the future.Continue…
Inveniam Capital Partners, Inc. and Inveniam.io, its operating system for private market data that drives price discovery and automated waterfall calculation, announced a partnership with Tokeny Solutions. The partnership includes a €5m investment in the Monaco-Luxembourg-based tokenization platform; the investment is led by Inveniam with participation from K20 Fund and ApexContinue…
The new paper of Trakx on digital assets and ESG objectives is focused on the governance component. Here, the firm is exploring how the DAO concept attached to some protocols is bringing positive changes to the governance usage. For some, Bitcoin is the earliest example of DAO as the networkContinue…
Despite obvious uncertainty, clear themes are developing in the regulation of crypto and digital assets. Crypto isn’t specifically regulated, however, with regulators at pains to say that financial regulation is ‘technology neutral’. But regulators do consistently focus on a couple of big points. First is deciding what is and isn’t regulatedContinue…
