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Story: Financial Evolution – Regulatory Clarity and Cryptocurrencies

By Dan Saada

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Financial evolution cannot be explained without talking about Bitcoin.  People in business in any industry would identify their competition sooner.

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Investing in technological progressions like cryptocurrencies is becoming the need of the hour for any nation to stay in sync with time.

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Monetary authorities can see a meltdown, and they are not able to cope with it. However, they are aware of their weakness, and they are looking for ways to get things going.

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Negative interest rates are creating social implications.  The ECB has declared a looser monetary policy, thereby cutting the interest rate in the Eurozone to a record low…

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In the current scenario, cheaper money would not have any effect.  While the positive results are not visible, adverse effects like the distortion of asset prices and…

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Banks are beginning to feel the competition from tech giants and non-bank payment providers.  They can sense the weight of the competition from disruptive technologies.

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Cryptocurrencies are behind the many developments in payment systems that are currently taking place.

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Yawar Shah, chairman of Swift, stated, “The financial industry is undergoing an extraordinary change, because of new entrants like Facebook’s Libra and the emergence of…

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One of the recent tweets from Bitcoin Magazine read: “Bitcoin is not a debt-based system that periodically experiences bank run-like instability.

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The SEC is expected to have a lot to do in terms of bringing in some regulatory clarity.

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Commissioner Pierce noted, “There is work to do to make sure people can develop in compliance with our rules.

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Chairman Clayton stated that he would not completely shut the doors for token technology.  He clarified this stating, “to the extent this technology facilitates more access…

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