Jun 6, 2020 | Insights
On 28 May 2020 the US Federal Reserve advised that they support a move away from the use of LIBOR to the use of AMERIBOR. They advised that: ‘Ameribor is a reference rate created by the American Financial Exchange based on a cohesive and well-defined market that...
May 14, 2020 | Insights
It is interesting how certain names can be household names in one place but meaningless in another. This is how it was for me with Paul Tudor Jones. After looking him up I felt that I should have heard about him, but whatever, I now know who he is and why he is...
Mar 10, 2020 | Insights
On 4 March 2020 the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgement on ability of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to direct ‘…the entities regulated by RBI (i) not to deal with or provide services to any individual or business entities dealing with or...
Jan 16, 2020 | Insights
In the previous post to this I outlined how the forthcoming Central bank arms race for the development of Central Bank Digital Currency would unfold. I did not however expect to find out so soon that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has been using a private version...
Nov 28, 2019 | Insights
I published ‘The Future of Electronic Money – The Nation State Arms Race for Cryptofiat’ which was inspired by a great podcast by Laura Shin on the subject. See here. My brief summary of a complex topic imagines a world where Nation State issued...
Oct 30, 2019 | Insights
On 1 November, 2019 Christine Lagarde takes on the role of President of the European Central Bank (ECB). I am predicting that under her leadership the ECB will seek to develop a digital EUR. This is almost a certainty. A stretch prediction is that some...
