Fintech Files: Carson Block on Shorting Crypto, and Did Ethereum’s “Merge” Matter?
Short seller and hedge fund founder Carson Block made a name for himself more than ten years ago sniffing out suspicious companies for short. Block, president...
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KKR Rides the Blockchain to Expand Access to Private Equity
Last week, Securitize, a digital asset investment firm, announced the launch of a tokenized fund to provide access to KKR Health Care Strategic Growth Fund (HCSG)...
Dubai-based QFIL wins Fintech ‘Startup of the Year’ at the Middle East’s Leaders in Fintech Awards
The award recognizes QFIL’s contribution to providing disruptive fintech solutions, by identifying and bridging an unmet financial investment gap for millennials and Gen-Z. The hotly contested...
TABADUL and Fintech Saudi sign MoU to leverage the Kingdom’s fintech industry
Riyadh: The Saudi Electronic Info Exchange Company (TABADUL), the leading provider of innovative digital and smart financial services to the business and logistics sectors, announced the...
US Treasury seeks comment on Crypto’s illicit financial risks
The US Treasury Department is seeking public comment on possible illicit finance and national security risks posed by the use of digital assets, as part of...
US Treasury seeks comment on Crypto’s illicit financial risks
The US Treasury Department is seeking public comment on possible illicit finance and national security risks posed by the use of digital assets, as part of...
Opinion: A crypto spring is coming – here’s how to make it last
As we head into fall, cryptocurrency winter continues, fueling skeptics’ insistence that the industry is doomed, that the asset class is unsustainable, and that Bitcoin, the...
Bitcoin is on a bumpy ride. Where the latest crypto rally could top.
Text size Bitcoin prices are back in the familiar $20,000 to $25,000 range. Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were in for a...
Where Bitcoin is legal tender
To the editor:This was completely predictable. Imagine what would happen if the US dollar fluctuated by just a small percentage of the rate that Bitcoin does....
Crypto doesn’t have much to fear from a Fed ‘Digital Dollar.’ Not yet.
Text size A digital currency from a US central bank could deposit risk-stable coins like Circle’s USDC and Tether’s USDT. Dreamstime The White House said Friday...