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Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions: A Guide
The central message of this IMF paper is that with readily available tools a central bank can enable deep negative rates whenever needed—thus maintaining the power of monetary policy in the future to end recessions within a short time.
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Game of Coins: Why Fighting Strengthens the Crypto Ecosystem
If institutional investors are delaying entering crypto until the industry ‘settles down,’ they will be in for a long wait – as in-fighting and controversy are part of crypto’s DNA. And as with any Darwinian struggle, crypto’s dramas are fundamental to the sector’s overall health and prosperity.
tags: Fintech CryptoAssets
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Brazil accelerates implementation of instant payments
The Brazilian Central Bank is planning to have QR code-based instant payments up and running by 2020, a year earlier than expected.
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Bank of England and FCA Look To Fintech
The Bank of England said some aspects of supervision are amenable to new technologies while the Financial Conduct Authority said its Innovate program has helped new financial services firms come to market more quickly.
tags: Fintech Regulation
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Blockchain Adopted by Canadian Banks to Verify Client Identities
Canada is making a big leap in modernizing identity verification, tapping blockchain technology to let consumers digitally prove who they are to securely access banking and other personal services.
tags: Fintech Blockchain Identity
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Current crypto ecosystem not yet viable for institutional investors, says Northern Trust
The current ecosystem for trading cryptocurrencies is still not suitable for institutional investors to expand into the new asset class, according to Northern Trust’s technology expert.
tags: Fintech CryptoAssets Custody
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A General Taxonomy for Cryptographic Assets
Brave New Coin has developed the General Taxonomy for Cryptographic Assets — a tool that seeks to capture the breadth, depth and evolution of distributed ledger technology-based assets across industry sectors globally, as well as to advance the investigation of the assets being classified.
tags: Fintech CryptoAssets
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Bahrain’s Regulatory Sandbox Teeming With Crypto Companies
Thirty companies are currently approved by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) for its regulatory sandbox, half of which are crypto service providers including exchanges.
tags: CryptoAssets Fintech Regulation
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SEC’s Digital Asset Framework Falls Short
Since the US SEC’s FinHub issued its analysis framework for digital investment contracts approximately a month ago, the long-awaited guidance likely has extended the digital asset winter rather than ending it.
tags: CryptoAssets Regulation ICOs Fintech