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There are several reasons why stock market investors should feel encouraged by Tesla’s bold move into cryptocurrency. 

Long-term investing is often about ignoring what your gut tells you about a stock’s price or immediate value and just trusting the story. Some stories are just so compelling that quite rapid, massive growth looks more likely than not and, in that case, you have a choice

Visa (V), the provider of the world’s most widely-used credit cards, has announced plans to implement a pilot program of application programming interfaces (APIs) that will allow banks to offer their customers a variety of Bitcoin-based (BTC) services.

Bitcoin has always been fond of a new year’s rally and its January climb to all-time highs bears testament to that. However, there are fundamental differences in this latest market movements compared to previous--not least the strength of Bitcoin as an asset. 

It’s not if the internet has changed our lives, but how. But along with the benefits comes a deep-rooted problem: trust.

Gold is one of the oldest and most notable trading assets known to humankind

Recent advances in blockchain technology, combined with increased demand for insurance products across the world, has set the stage for the rise of parametric insurance, or insurance that automatically pays out when certain events occur.

2020 was a paradigm shifting year for Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency asset class. 

Cryptocurrencies have taken initial steps toward mass adoption, with PayPal recently announcing that it will allow customers to not only buy and sell digital assets, but to also use them to shop at merchants in their network

We are at a time when the top 30 popular brands that retail customers connect with do not include a bank or a broker.

Following the successful migration of its BX Options market, Nasdaq now plans to move four more markets to the Nasdaq Financial Framework (NFF), accelerating the pace of innovation through enhanced functionality and capacity.

Nasdaq unveiled its fifth annual Tech Trends report, exploring four technology trends that will have the biggest impact on the capital markets and outlook for the year ahead.

Obviously, shattering glass ceilings is just what Janet Yellen does, but most investors won’t be concerned with her gender or the historic nature of her confirmation. They will care only about what her tenure will mean for markets.

When the Ethereum blockchain first launched in 2015, it kicked off a blockchain revolution.

Until March last year, India had become something of a barren wasteland for cryptocurrency enthusiasts.

While adoption of the technology by institutional investors seems increasingly likely, nothing is a given in the blockchain and crypto world and despite all its glory, the future of DeFi remains uncertain.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) provides the solid foundation for new financial services that are so powerful and advantageous that we will soon look back on them and question how we ever operated without them.

Over the last 20 years, a wave of technological innovation has changed the fabric of human culture, forever impacting the way we live, travel, communicate, and consume.

Over the last couple of years, cryptocurrency has shown several signs that the days of the “financial Wild West” are in the past.

The pandemic has caused a leap forward in the adoption of all areas of electronic financial services. Understanding these changes is crucial for shareholder returns over the next decade and, in our view, as soon as next year.