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    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      With spot bitcoin ETFs looming, clock ticks on futures products

      After explosive beginning, these types of funds may be relegated

      A bitcoin on a laptop keyboard
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Cryptofinance
      Singapore opens the door to a shrinking market

      Plus, the bleak future facing crypto post-Sam Bankman-Fried

    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      The US-China currency wars are in an unstable lull

      If Beijing returns to promoting export-led growth, tension over exchange rates may return

    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      South African economy
      Ramaphosa government faces calls to tap foreign exchange gains to ease debt burden

      Hedge fund Amia Capital becomes latest body to float South Africa using central bank account as economy falters

      A view of the Pretoria city centre
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Cryptocurrencies
      An almost convincing Delaware-crypto-filing scam

      No, BlackRock is not creating a iShares XRP fund

    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Pound Sterling
      The Bank of England can’t afford to sound soft on sterling

      The pound still looks vulnerable

    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      The Big Read
      Rebuild or retreat? Crypto faces tough choices after FTX

      Following the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the industry must choose between becoming mainstream or retreating to the fringes

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Cryptofinance
      UK opens the stablecoin door Premium content

      Plus, updates on NFTs and bitcoin’s flirt with a bull run

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      The risky business that put IPO disaster CAB Payments on the map

      What happens in Lagos stays in Lagos

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Cryptocurrencies
      Tighter rules make an impact on UK crypto markets

      FCA issued 146 alerts on the first full day of regulation

      A sign advertising a bitcoin ATM
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      LexRobinhood
      Robinhood: bitcoin price rally is no salve for trading woes Premium content

      Brokerage group needs to find more arrows in its quiver to draw in greater number of active traders

      The Robinhood website on a smartphone
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Foreign exchange
      Offshoring the euro: London calling?

      Euro area depositors won’t all sit still for large, unremunerated required reserves

    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Fintech
      The crypto ATM business is somehow still booming

      In the anarcho-capitalist, ungovernable, legally murky world of hash-for-cash machines, the good times have never ended

    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Gilts
      UK gilts rally after official signals BoE is open to rate cuts in 2024

      Yield on short-term British government debt falls to lowest level since June

      Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Fintech
      Bored Ape crypto fans report ‘eye burn’ after Hong Kong party

      Organiser Yuga Labs conducts investigation following event to promote crypto art

      The Bored Ape Yacht Club website
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Stablecoins
      UK sets out proposals to bring stablecoins into real economy

      Bank of England and FCA criteria are latest step in Britain’s drive to position itself as key hub for digital assets

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    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
      Why crypto is a poor relation of digital payments

      Real-world use will still be the main driver of growth

      A photo illustration with the European Payments Initiative logo on a smartphone screen with the EU flag in the background
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      Martin Sandbu
      The west must not prevaricate when it comes to seizing Russian reserves

      Confiscating and deploying them for Ukraine’s benefit is the morally obvious next step

      People walk past a poster depicting Ukrainian servicemen and a slogan which reads “Bring the victory soon” in Kyiv
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Person in the News
      Sam Bankman-Fried: the fallen ‘king of crypto’

      The narrative powers of the FTX founder failed to save him from this week’s fraud conviction

      Illustration of Sam Bankman-Fried wearing an orange jumpsuit sitting in a prison cell with a Bitcoin logo grafittied on the wall
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Cryptofinance
      Sam Bankman-Fried’s judgment day Premium content

      Plus, updates on the UK’s crypto embrace

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      News in-depthSam Bankman-Fried
      Downfall of a crypto billionaire: the conviction of Bankman-Fried

      FTX founder’s guilty verdict a ‘warning to every fraudster who thinks they’re untouchable’

      In a courtroom sketch, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried stands with his lawyers after the verdict is read out
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Sam Bankman-Fried
      Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of fraud over FTX collapse

      Jury’s guilty verdict caps stunning downfall of one-time public face of crypto industry

      Sam Bankman-Fried
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      ExplainerJapanese government bonds
      What the end of Japan’s yield curve control experiment means for markets

      Investor reaction to the BoJ removing the hard ceiling on 10-year yields has so far been muted

      Montage showing the Bank of Japan, 100 Japenese Yen coin, and a bar chart
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Unhedged podcast20 min listen
      Sam Bankman-Fried takes the stand

      Former crypto tycoon risked everything to testify. Did it help?

    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      FT GuidesDigital financial services: an explainer
      How can blockchain platforms make currency trading cheaper?

      HSBC and Wells Fargo are bucking the trend and using the technology to settle foreign exchange transactions

      A montage showing a spread of coins in different currencies with two chains crossing diagonally over them and logos of HSBC and Wells Fargo superimposed on top
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