Apple’s Goldman Sachs-run savings account attracted 240,000 new customers in its first week of launch, but many have complained of problems withdrawing their money. Experts have suggested that this may be down to the over-zealous application of anti-money laundering measures.
The European Central Bank has published reports on its recent market research and prototyping activities, during which it was both told, and shown, that launching a digital euro CBDC to its currently proposed specification is inherently possible.
Fans of fast cars, luxury yachts and excessive wealth will be focusing their attention on Monte Carlo today for the jewel of the Formula 1 season, the Monaco Grand Prix. Meanwhile, for the rest of us fans of fast cars, luxury yachts and excessive wealth, we take a look back
The two companies and a third unnamed global tier 1 bank carried out the repurchase agreement transactions on Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo platform. The functionality enhances the possibilities for intraday liquidity management.
The Treasury Select Committee says unbacked “cryptoassets” have no intrinsic value or useful social purpose and retail trading is more like gambling than financial services. Bad news for the UK Government’s plan to make the country into a crypto hub.
Scam videos purporting to be from CoinMarketCap or Youtube bloggers are tempting viewers with access to an Amazon token presale… which obviously isn’t real, so please, please, please don’t send any cryptocurrency if you ever want to see it again.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority launched its e-HKD Pilot Programme last Thursday. The scheme will involve 16 firms from the finance, payments and technology sectors, including Ripple, which will showcase a real estate tokenization solution.
