crypto

Apr
05

An Absence of Trust

Markets depend on trust and credibility notes the SEC head of enforcement in a must read speech. Not sure all in crypto agree but his argument is fair and rational going through the history of efforts to believe crypto was above regulation to seeking to avoid regulatory fiat…
3 min read
Apr
03

Zero Guilt Protocol

Let’s start with a positive, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Plans To Let Customers Of Its Non-Bank Members Trade Crypto (Binance).
3 min read
May
04

Jeffrey Kutler's Journey from ATM's to Cryptocurrencies

Jeffrey Kutler’s journalistic career has seen quite an arc, from the mass adoption of ATMs through the growth of technology to fintech and most recently the rise of cryptocurrencies with every technological innovation in between!
1 min read
Apr
19

Exchange Invest 2638: Ameribor Swaps Owner

Later today at 1000ET is the Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion Subcommittee Hearing Entitled: “Understanding Stablecoins’ Role in Payments and the Need for Legislation.”
9 min read
Apr
13

Exchange Invest 2633: Bank Tape Anyone?

Only in the EU. In a case of the ‘have their cake and eat it’ ethos of bankers, a cabal proposes a consolidated tape to the EC which surely amounts to a fundamental conflict of interest risk?
8 min read
Apr
03

Exchange Invest 2626: BMLL Lake Becomes Ocean

The General Manager of the BIS recently distributed an iron fist across the whole crypto world and barely anybody noticed.
13 min read
Mar
25

Exchange Invest Weekend Edition 2619: From AI to Obsolescence

Chinese IDB Data Cut; FTX and their GUBU Loans; LME get hit with a minor warrant issue in Nickel; B3 are All In On Vermiculus; Happy 160 years to Stockholm; And there's a big Swiss Imbalance in the shareholder register
6 min read
Mar
24

Exchange Invest 2618: COIN Problems

Coinbase is in the eyes of a storm - one part is easy to work out, the other part awaits clarification from the SEC.
9 min read
Mar
23

Exchange Invest 2617: MEMX Options Round

SEC seeks to reduce its preponderance of paper as it crawls a little closer to the digital age while LME Nickel contracts are in dire need of modernisation according to a broad range of commodity companies as battery demand reshapes the market.
12 min read
Mar
22

Exchange Invest 2616: Swiss Imbalance

If you don’t know UBS acquired Credit Suisse last weekend (faster than the CS PR dept could say “merger of equals, oh wait a moment…”) then I envy your clearly commodious sub rock abode.
9 min read
Mar
21

Exchange Invest 2615: Happy 160 Stockholm

Nowhere is this clearly than in this gem of drivel from the Brussels Bugle: Humbled 'Crypto Bros' Don Blazers For Boca Raton (FT) which almost but not quite, completely fails to encapsulate last week’s Boca FIA meeting.
8 min read
Mar
20

Exchange Invest 2614: B3 All In On Vermiculus

Lots happening today with the 10% Vermiculus stake sale to B3’s venture arm alongside EEX adding another modest asset to its expanding portfolio. Lots happening in China as LME get hit with a minor warrant issue in Nickel and much more...
13 min read
Mar
18

Exchange Invest Weekend Edition 2613: Leaks From Labs to Pipelines

Crypto security issuers should file registration statements and make the required disclosures. These are the same rules that everyone else in the securities markets has played by for decades.
6 min read
Mar
17

Exchange Invest 2612: FTX GUBU Loans

“SBF is arguing that he is entitled to $5 million Directors and Officers Insurance from FTX.”
6 min read
Mar
16

Exchange Invest 2611: Yadda Yadda

Clearly, FTX going bust was a real shock to Walt Inc as they had sponsored Expo but for those reading Exchange Invest, therein one can justify a subscription methinks.
7 min read