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Embedded banking/finance disrupts global brands - embedded banking and finance is enabling global brands to offer financial services/products and highly profitable income streams to their customers via an App. Although this presents challenges to traditional banks, it offers the potential for those such as Elon Musk to realise his dream and create a super-App whilst making financial services more inclusive and available to the 1.4billion globally who are currently unbanked. Given the digital nature of embedded banking and finance, it is likely that we will see more digital currency solutions being implemented to compliment real-time transactions and payments.
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Blockchain analytics: insight into blockchains - analytics on blockchain transactions are essential for those businesses handling digital assets whether the assets are cryptos or real-world assets. Analytics help financial institutions safeguard their transactions, reduce financial crime risk and ensure compliance whilst offering insights for those buying and selling digital assets. Blockchain transaction analytics offer a powerful tool to handle large volumes of digitised data in a very efficient manner.
Full Article Here
Tokenised real world assets - imagine aspiring to own a US$190 million Marilyn Monroe painting, a 1963 Andy Warhol painting titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) bought for US$105 million, or having to pay a lesser US$850,000 for a print of Queen Elizabeth. How many art lovers could afford this? But, what if you could buy shares of an artwork? What if you could buy fractions of a publicly-traded company, debt instrument, classic car or commodity? That is the core principle behind tokenisation of real-world assets.
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Hong Kong is central to China’s capital markets ecosystem, but is a digital currency? - Hong Kong had a miserable isolating lockdown which exacerbated the perception of its decline as a financial centre, after Beijing had been asserting its political authority and boosting alternatives in mainland China. Beijing has changed its mind, now seeing Hong Kong as a useful asset at a difficult economic time especially in its one-country two-systems format - for finance at least. Hong Kong is also due for a key role in the digital assets ecosystem and holds an intriguing position in the mBridge wholesale CBDC project. Bifurcation of the global system amid geopolitical tensions may increase Hong Kong’s importance while it sits on both halves, for now. Might digital finance and the logic of CBDCs eventually bring that to an end?
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By James Tylee / Jonny FryEmbedded banking/finance disrupts global brands - embedded banking and finance is enabling global brands to offer financial services/products and highly profitable income streams to their customers via an App. Although this presents challenges to traditional banks, it offers the potential for those such as Elon Musk to realise his dream and create a super-App whilst making financial services more inclusive and available to the 1.4billion globally who are currently unbanked. Given the digital nature of embedded banking and finance, it is likely that we will see more digital currency solutions being implemented to compliment real-time transactions and payments.
Full Article Here
Blockchain analytics: insight into blockchains - analytics on blockchain transactions are essential for those businesses handling digital assets whether the assets are cryptos or real-world assets. Analytics help financial institutions safeguard their transactions, reduce financial crime risk and ensure compliance whilst offering insights for those buying and selling digital assets. Blockchain transaction analytics offer a powerful tool to handle large volumes of digitised data in a very efficient manner.
Full Article Here
Tokenised real world assets - imagine aspiring to own a US$190 million Marilyn Monroe painting, a 1963 Andy Warhol painting titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) bought for US$105 million, or having to pay a lesser US$850,000 for a print of Queen Elizabeth. How many art lovers could afford this? But, what if you could buy shares of an artwork? What if you could buy fractions of a publicly-traded company, debt instrument, classic car or commodity? That is the core principle behind tokenisation of real-world assets.
Full Article Here
Hong Kong is central to China’s capital markets ecosystem, but is a digital currency? - Hong Kong had a miserable isolating lockdown which exacerbated the perception of its decline as a financial centre, after Beijing had been asserting its political authority and boosting alternatives in mainland China. Beijing has changed its mind, now seeing Hong Kong as a useful asset at a difficult economic time especially in its one-country two-systems format - for finance at least. Hong Kong is also due for a key role in the digital assets ecosystem and holds an intriguing position in the mBridge wholesale CBDC project. Bifurcation of the global system amid geopolitical tensions may increase Hong Kong’s importance while it sits on both halves, for now. Might digital finance and the logic of CBDCs eventually bring that to an end?
Full Article Here