Crypto is “monopoly money”

Do Kwon, a crypto entrepreneur from South Korea, once boasted of building a stablecoin “ecosystem” – free from the tentacles of Wall Street and government regulators. Appearing in a Manhattan courtroo

In 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) sternly warned that “crypto-assets have no intrinsic value” and that investors in them “should therefore be prepared to lose all the value they have put

Issue of the week: the battle for the ...

When Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time in January 2025, he was surrounded not just by politicians and dignitaries, but by the CEOs of six of the world’s most visible technology

Since World War II, the two landmark events in the evolution of money were Bretton Woods in 1944, when the dollar became the de facto global reserve currency, and then the Nixon Shock of 1971, when th

The sale after 17 years of the last of the government’s stake in NatWest has led some to claim that this was good news for the banking sector. The stock overhang has been removed and the sale has got