By Andrew Delves, Senior Relationship Manager: Fintech, at ClearBank Digital assets, Blockchain technology and the adoption of cryptocurrency are on the rise and we’re moving towards them being a part of the mainstream financial system in the UK. We’re seeing many fintech players including such technology into their offerings, and…

Written by Sean Kiernan CEO of Greengage On 3rd November 2021, a group of organisations launched the results of a major new mapping exercise to examine the current state of the industry. Greengage, Deep Knowledge Analytics and the Big Innovation Centre published a landmark piece of research in partnership with…

According to HMRC, in order for stamp duty to be applied on the trading of cryptocurrencies “they would need to meet the definition of ‘stock or marketable securities’ or ‘chargeable securities’ respectively. However, as of the original date of publication of this paper, HMRC’s view is that existing exchange tokens…

2 min video looking at the competition digital asset exchanges face According to the website cryptowisser.com there are over 600 crypto exchanges currently so surely the sector is ripe for take-over activity. Presumably now with $50 m in cash the 1st NASDAQ listed crypto exchange Hong Kong Based EQUOS exchange…

Written by Antony Abell, CEO and Co-Founder of the TrustMe™/TPX™ Property Exchanges Global Group of Companies based in London. As may be heard in the corridors on the global wealth offices, ‘cash is increasingly becoming trash’. Inflation is eating our money and therefore the value of our stored labour… at…

Listen to On Spitfire radio -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BazFsYxuTiA bought to you by Beth “Badger” Clemens and James Tylee Have you heard of what Spitfire means by the way? Predictions for 2023 — For your weekly analysis subscribe to www.digitalbytes.substack.com · inflation is not going to retreat quickly The financial excess of the…

Chris Arnold (Partner, DLA Piper), Michaël Heene (Partner, DLA Piper) and Martin Gresty (Research Analyst — Financial Services, DLA Piper) Digital assets have attracted significant interest in recent years and are moving ever more into the mainstream financial system. In the UK for instance, some 2.3 million UK adults held…

The challenges of privacy and protection for on-line data and assets is particularly relevant to us all as we increasingly rely on digital data to lead our lives. The average daily time people spend on their mobile ‘phones is three and a quarter hours, with 20% of people spending over…

Real estate transactions have barely changed. Ordinarily, the buying and selling of real estate is recorded on a central register known as the Land Registry, but the World Bank estimates that “70 per cent of the world’s population still lacks access to proper land titling…” Even in so-called sophisticated jurisdictions…