• DELOITTE’S 2020 GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN SURVEY

    • 18 June 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Companies, Cryptovalues News, Research & Development, Training
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    Nearly 40% of companies surveyed by Deloitte have already implemented #blockchain technology to improve their processes, but challenges remain for greater adoption. Deloitte surveyed around 1,500 senior #executives across 14 countries and found that more companies have put #money and resources on blockchain this year as compared to last year. In 2019, 23% of respondents

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  • BANQUE DE FRANCE’S EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL MONEY

    • 22 May 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News
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    Since the beginning of the year, the Banque de France has been experimenting with central bank digital money, with the aim of exploring with partners the potential contribution of new technologies to improve the functioning of financial markets and, more specifically, interbank regulations (so-called “wholesale” central bank digital money). Source: Avancement de la démarche d’expérimentations

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  • EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK – DIGITAL CURRENCY

    • 14 May 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, ECB - Lagarde
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    An ECB digital currency a flight of fancy? A change in payments behavior is coming, are we ready for the change? Find here the Speech by Yves Mersch. Source:ECB

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  • J.P. MORGAN OPENS TO THE CRYPTO INDUSTRY

    • 13 May 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Companies, Cryptovalues News, World News
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    For the first time, a bank opens to customers from the cryptocurrency world as Gemini and Coinbase. Read more in this article from Wall Street Journal: JPMorgan Extends Banking Services to Bitcoin Exchanges or here from Forbes: J.P. Morgan Opens Accounts For Bitcoin Exchanges— Coinbase And Gemini Up First

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  • BLOOMBERG – BITCOIN MATURATION LEAP

    • 23 April 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Cryptovalues News, World News
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    We share the April overview published by Bloomberg on: Born From the Financial Crisis, Bitcoin Maturation Accelerating Stock-Market Shakeout Accelerates Bitcoin’s Gold-Like Transition Bitcoin Futures Taming Bull Calf Toward Digital Version of Gold Bitcoin and Gold Showing Convergence With Endurance Covid-19 Supporting Bitcoin On-Chain Indicators, Dominance Covid-19 May Give Libra Life, Spur Fed’s Digital Currency

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  • HOW BANK OF ENGLAND IS EXPLORING CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY

    • 10 April 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, World News
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    The Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper on central bank digital currency (CBDC) in March 2020. BoE researchers and analysts are actively exploring how an electronic form of central bank money would look like and how it could function in the real world. The discussion paper outlines an illustrative model of CBDC designed

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  • LIBRA OR LIBRAE?

    • 21 March 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Academic World, Cryptovalues News
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    Basket based stablecoins to mitigate foreign exchange volatility spillovers. In the paper they present a methodology to empirically build a basket based stable coin  (a Librae) whose weights can maximize stability over a long time period. The proposed stable coin (Librae) appears to be less volatile than single currencies and, therefore, with respect to single

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