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Top StoriesEU Agrees Rules to Tame ‘Wild West’ Crypto Market
Top StoriesEU Agrees Rulebook for ‘Wild West’ Crypto Markets
Top StoriesEU Agrees Rules to Tame ‘Wild West’ Crypto Market
Top StoriesEU Seeks Deal on Ground-Breaking Rules to Regulate Crypto
Gleif Showcases ‘One Digital ID for Every Business Globally’ With First Verifiable Lei Deployment
Date: June 29, 2022
First use of the vLEI – a digitally trustworthy version of an LEI – to sign GLEIF’s 2021 annual report shows the power of automated entity verification in official filings 29 June 2022 – Basel – The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) achieved a new milestone today in the realization of a global ecosystem for...
ESG Goals Can Only Be Meaningful if They Are Democratic and Underpinned by Data
Date: June 28, 2022
By Lea Borkenhagen, ESG strategist and advisor to Finboot To truly make the transition to a low carbon economy enterprises must change their operations, helped in part by setting and implementing goals around ESG to not only minimize risk but also create business value. There is a strong business case for investment in sustainability practices...
From Discovery to Delivery: Making Product Innovation Accessible in Banking
Date: June 28, 2022
By Gareth Miller, Principal Consultant, Financial Services at Endava The Bank of England (BoE) celebrated 25 years of independence last month. At the time, it was a bold move which gave it the power to make decisions on interest rates and control inflation free from direct Treasury intervention. The consequence has been a monumental shift...
Cryptoverse: Ether Holds Its Breath for the Lean, Mean ‘merge’
Date: June 28, 2022
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss (Reuters) – Investors in ether and its troubled twin stETH are nervously anticipating a crypto milestone: The merge. That’s the name for a major upgrade of the Ethereum blockchain network upon which many crypto projects are built, aimed at making it leaner, meaner and cleaner. It’s elusive. The merge was supposed to...
Bitcoin Miners Sell Their Holdings Amid Crypto Winter’s Chill
Date: June 27, 2022
By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Medha Singh (Reuters) – Bitcoin miners have been forced to tap into their cryptocurrency stashes as a plunge in prices, rising energy costs and increased competition bite into profitability. The number of coins miners are sending to crypto exchanges has been steadily climbing since June 7, researchers at MacroHive noted,...
Now Is the Time to Plan for the Metaverse
Date: June 27, 2022
By Kuruvilla Mathew, Chief Innovation Architect and General Manager, UST The past two years have been beset by uncertainty, making it difficult to predict future trends with any degree of precision. But one thing that I can say with certainty is that the metaverse – a digital ecosystem built on the convergence of blockchain, augmented...