The European Central Bank is willing to develop its own digital currency if the private sector can’t make cross-border payments faster and cheaper. Download: INNOVATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE EUROPEAN RETAIL PAYMENT LANDSCAPE Source: BLOOMBERG Images via: Cryptovalues  

Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange co-founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is tapping a digital bank founder to manage its European operations, the company announced Wednesday. Julian Sawyer, former co-founder and chief operating officer at U.K.-based Starling Bank, will shape the exchange’s strategy for the region as well as manage European hiring, according to a press

What Policy framework to help building innovation and growth into Europe’s Capital Market? Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the French Central Bank, gave a speech at the AFME conference of Paris. Some parts of the speech: “we have to identify clearly the challenges raised by innovation and be ready to adapt our policy framework

Only a few weeks after the United States Internal Revenue Service published new guidance for crypto taxation, the United Kingdom’s tax, payments and customs authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, has updated its cryptocurrency taxation policy paper for businesses and individuals. The HMRC’s approach in this policy paper is, as expected, conservative, and it stands in line with other countries’ tax treatment

Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, said the country needs to “seize the opportunity” afforded by blockchain technology. Speaking as part of the 18th collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on Thursday in Beijing, Xi said blockchain technology has a wide

In my last blog about Gartner and Blockchain I mentioned the importance of the role of CIOs. They are supposed to play a leading role in determining if this technology could be of use for their business. Great question is: are CIOs already prepared for that role. In this blog I will sum up ten

Last month, German state-owned bank Bayerische Landesbank, also known as BayernLB, published a report that discusses Bitcoin’s stock-to-flow ratio. The authors concluded that Bitcoin is “designed as an ultra-hard type of money.” STOCK-TO-FLOW: BITCOIN VS GOLD Apparently, BayernLB authors relied on the stock-to-flow model previously proposed by Twitter user PlanB. For those unfamiliar, the stock-to-flow ratio refers

 It is “inevitable” that central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve will start issuing digital currency, Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank president Patrick Harker said on Wednesday, while cautioning that the United States should not be the nation to lead such a move. “Frankly I don’t think we should be the first mover as a nation