UK’s financial services face continued uncertainty
Since the UK voted to leave the EU, financial services has been largely absent from Brexit discussions. This is despite the fact that financial services are...
Will 2019 be the year when Bitcoin dies?
Back in December 2017, when its price reached close to US$20,000, Bitcoin looked like it had finally disrupted financial markets with the potential to enter the...
Initiative Q: Is it the Next Big Digital Currency?
Could free units of a new digital currency end up being worth thousands of dollars?
Initiative Q, which is aggressively marketing itself on social media,...
The Bitcoin story: what the future might hold
A mysterious, anonymous entity known as “Satoshi Nakamoto” posted a white paper on October 31 2008 entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. It was the...
The role of securitisation in the financial crisis
Securitisation was once lauded as an innovation designed to enhance the resilience and stability of the financial system by redistributing risk efficiently. Yet the...