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SWANSEA, UK - FEBRUARY 23, 2021: Binance mobile app logo on a smartphone, wallet with gold Bitcoin and keyboard on yellow background. Popular cryptocurrency exchange
Business 18 January 2023

Binance is bad news—is anyone still surprised?

FBI special agent Daniel Sirmons believes that funds deposited into Binance accounts are from ransomware attacks and, thus, subject to civil forfeiture, a move the exchange said it wouldn't comply with.

Cracked Bitcoin coin in red line chart
Business 16 January 2023

Systemic risk and digital assets

The impact of FTX's collapse may be largely restricted to the digital asset industry, but one effect the crisis had outside of the space was to put the concept of systemic risk back onto the agenda.

USDC cryptocurrency symbol gold USD coin on green screen background.
Business 3 January 2023

Unravelling the Moonstone Bank stablecoin gambit

A few weeks before the collapse of FTX, Moonstone Bank partnered with fintech company Fluent Finance on a stablecoin venture to "accelerate crypto adoption by issuing US+ stablecoin."

usdc coin digital
Business 22 December 2022

The economic gamble of digital dollarization

So-called stablecoin Tether continues to spread its pervasive influence over a digital asset industry that is being increasingly embraced with wide arms and closed eyes across large parts of Latin America.