Opinion

July 17, 2019 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Varo Money has been in operations for years now providing banking services in a digital only environment to a growing number of consumers. Like all other US-based aspiring digital banks, Varo has had to leverage regulatory arbitrage to provide its services by partnering with another… Read More

July 17, 2019 @ 2:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin’s recent rollercoaster ride, involving multiple thousand-dollar fluctuations between $9000 and $14 000 USD within very short time frames (sometimes less than 2 hours) is being brought about by an increase in leverage available at exchanges, “CZ Binance” told Bloomberg recently. Changpeng Zhao or “CZ”… Read More

July 16, 2019 @ 8:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

House minority leader and a Republican Congressperson from California Kevin McCarthy repeats appealing claims in his New York Times missive espousing the virtues of blockchain, “Don’t Count on Government to Protect Your Privacy: Let’s look to technologies like blockchain and other innovations to keep our… Read More

July 16, 2019 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin held a press conference yesterday in advance of Capitol Hill hearings this week addressing concerns surrounding Facebook’s stablecoin Lira. Mnuchin cautioned the audience that Facebook, and any other crypto creator, must adhere to the high standards of KYC and… Read More

July 15, 2019 @ 4:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

During the past few days a draft House Resolution has been circulating with the title, ‘‘Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act.’’ As it is a draft bill, the legislation may never get beyond being run up the flagpole to capture feedback from a wider… Read More

July 14, 2019 @ 3:00 pm By Will McDonough  |  

While Facebook has stolen the show with news of Libra and its cadre of notable brand partners, the community also values the many other household brands that have pioneered with blockchain. Just a few short years ago, distributed-ledger technology was the domain of a small… Read More

July 14, 2019 @ 1:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital banking and online lending is a huge portion of the future of finance. The days of brick and mortar dominance is slowly drifting away as the next generation of consumers prefer banking on their iPhone or Android smartphone. Last week, Deutsche Bank announced a… Read More

July 13, 2019 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin Norway has shut down all operations according to its website and posts on Facebook. Bitcoin Norway is a cryptocurrency exchange that claims to have served over 25,000 Norwegians since 2013. Last week, via Twitter, the exchange said they are dealing with extraordinary problems: Hei… Read More

July 12, 2019 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider has received multiple comments on President Trump’s latest policy by Twitter approach to governing the US and his thoughts on cryptocurrency. As was previously reported, President Trump is no fan of Facebook’s Libra, as well as other cryptos. Trump believes that Facebook needs… Read More

July 12, 2019 @ 8:51 am By Nikolas Kairinos  |  

While artificial intelligence (AI) might sound like something out of science fiction movies or a Philip K. Dick Novel, it’s fast becoming a key feature of many of America’s biggest and most dynamic industries. The financial services industry, where small margins can mean millions of… Read More

July 12, 2019 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

President Trump has shared his perspective on crypto, and, more specifically, Bitcoin and Facebook’s stablecoin Libra. In a series of tweets yesterday, Trump professed his commitment to a strong US dollar and his disdain for the virtual currencies. Trump said we only have one real… Read More

July 10, 2019 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

OTC Markets Group trades over 10,000 US and global securities. The company, a regulated alternative trading system (ATS), operates three tiers of trading platforms with each marketplace (OTCQX® Best Market, the OTCQB® Venture Market and the Pink® Open Market). OTC Markets largely targets smaller companies… Read More

July 10, 2019 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Bank (XETRA: DBKGn.DB / NYSE: DB) finally announced its plan to dig itself out of its financial hole this past week. Deutsche Bank’s plan entailed a significant downsizing with a workforce reduction of approximately 18,000 full-time equivalent employees to around 74,000 employees by 2022…. Read More

July 9, 2019 @ 10:31 am By Christin Friedrich  |  

This is a report from the 4th CrowdCamp of the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) which took place on 13 June 2019 in Berlin. Berlin – The rooms of Sirius Minds at the 4th CrowdCamp of the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) were occupied to the last seat…. Read More

July 9, 2019 @ 1:02 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin proponents are fond of claiming that Bitcoin is THE alternative financial system humanity needs to combat the tyranny and incompetence of central banks, and they will trot out all kinds of dire scenarios and statistics to prove this. The Bitcoin proponents I’ve met have also… Read More

July 6, 2019 @ 4:29 pm By Barry James  |  

As Fintech Challenges the World Order. We know how fundamentally the internet and the web have changed not just the world of work, business and commerce but all our lives and the way we live, around the world. It’s touched and changed just about everything… Read More

July 4, 2019 @ 6:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Facebook’s public announcement regarding the forthcoming launch of the Libra cryptocurrency along with a smart contract ecosystem has engendered a good amount of commentary both positive and negative. Public officials are still trying to get their arms around what Libra means for fiat currencies and… Read More

July 2, 2019 @ 2:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the Blockchain Association announced in a blog post that it would take over the Defend Crypto campaign, launched by Kik Interactive. Kik is engaged in a legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding an initial coin offering that raised about… Read More

July 1, 2019 @ 2:42 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A trader at Maple Leaf Capital has taken to Twitter to present an unflattering analysis of the Bitfinex crypto trading platform’s 1st IEO (Initial Exchange Offering) token “Ampleforth” (AMPL). (0) This will be a thread about Bitfinex’s 1st ieo – Ampleforth $AMPL. Whilst with a… Read More

June 30, 2019 @ 9:04 am By Aubrey Hansen   |  

Ethereum (ETH) is currently the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, and while it doesn’t benefit from Bitcoin’s ‘first starter’ advantage, in many ways, it’s actually a far more superior blockchain technology. The Ethereum network has a more complex and detailed developmental structure that allows… Read More