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. …

Crypto ETPs in Europe Written by Martin Bartlam and Marina Troullinou at DLA Piper What are crypto ETPs? Exchange traded products (ETPs) are financial instruments traded on stock exchanges and are typically structured as exchange traded funds (ETFs), exchange traded notes (ETNs), exchange traded certificates (ETCs) or exchange traded commodities…

The role and opportunity for stablecoins in traditional cross-border payments. Written by Matthew Jackson VP, Relationship Management, Freemarket Stablecoins — cryptocurrencies whose value is (typically) backed by a reserve of assets pegged to a fiat currency like USD — are gaining traction as a new ‘digital asset’ in their own…

There has been much reading matter written about the benefits of stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Almost every blockchain conference panel arduously debates the pros and cons about how digital cash offers the potential to revolutionise wholesale banking (including cross broader payments) and how it provides a new…

Written by Efi Pylarinou Source:YouTube The buy-in to the Tokenization of Financial Assets from major stakeholders like Blackrock, with $9.1 Trillion Assets under management (as of the March 2023), cannot be dismissed. …

James Tylee, veteran Wall Street algorithmic programmer and general ‘geek’ (having set up the world’s first radio station 15 years ago that pays listeners crypto for simply l …