Emily Nicolle
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Why painters and plumbers chatting about crypto worries R3’s boss
‘I don’t believe in getting-rich-quick schemes. I’m shocked... that the regulators haven’t been more proactive’ → Read More
Why the $30tn ESG frenzy leaves LGBTQ+ workers behind
Social inclusion policies are lagging while environmental concerns are dominating the ESG agenda → Read More
Zopa co-founders speak out against fintech’s peer-to-peer exit
Zopa has ‘turned into the thing that we set ourselves out deliberately not to be’ → Read More
FCA turns to external lawyers to help with staffing crisis
The FCA called in external communications experts earlier this month to provide internal support, as employees’ unhappiness with the changes mounted → Read More
Goldman Sachs to consider offering bitcoin-backed loans
Wall Street bank targets bitcoin as collateral in next step to digital asset adoption → Read More
How to handle crypto on your UK tax bill
These are the pitfalls crypto investors are facing in how bitcoin and NFTs are taxed in the UK → Read More
An audience with Bitstamp’s Julian Sawyer: ‘An IPO would be a distraction’
Sawyer co-founded Starling, a UK unicorn success story — but now hopes crypto will be the next disrupter to take centre stage → Read More
JPMorgan takes stake in blockchain startup backed by Goldman
Wall Street banks target blockchain in mad dash for cryptocurrency exposure → Read More
France’s Melanion Capital to launch ‘green’ bitcoin-focused Spac
New business to acquire companies tied to bitcoin mined with renewable energy sources → Read More
Why central bank digital currencies are facing an identity crisis
Digital identity schemes aren't popular in the UK. Can the Bank of England find a workaround? → Read More
The new bitcoin ETF is riskier than you think — even by crypto standards
Wild volatility, contango and sizeable costs — why did the SEC bless a futures ETF over one that tracks the spot? → Read More
Bank of England says no Britcoin before 2025
A decision on whether to build a UK central bank digital currency is still years away, the Bank said → Read More
London takes global crown for women-led fintech firms — with only two players
Women-led fintech firms have secured just 1% of venture capital funds invested globally → Read More
Bank of England sees flood of applicants who want to debate ‘Britcoin’
But the group that did apply to discuss the UK central bank digital currency so far has 'gaps in representation and diversity' → Read More
Starling’s chief Boden blasts failed open banking regime
Anne Boden: ‘People want better service; they don’t want their data’ → Read More
Fintech heavyweights Stripe and Klarna enter strategic partnership
Klarna credit options to be offered to retailers using Stripe checkout platform → Read More
Citigroup, Starling chiefs urge caution over the UK’s plans for Britcoin
Britcoin ‘could result in all the balances disappearing from the current accounts of the high street banks’ → Read More
Banks will not challenge UK bonus cap, bosses say
Citigroup, Santander bosses are not lobbying to lift the limit on banker bonuses → Read More
Five things in crypto this week: bitcoin ETF, inflation and FTX’s $25bn price tag
Investors pile into crypto to avoid FOMO, Kazakhstan limits bitcoin mining and Paul Tudor Jones leaps into bitcoin for hedging → Read More
Wise co-founder cashes in £81.5m stake to fund new tech bets
Taavet Hinrikus will also put up £326m in Wise shares as security against a loan for his investment firm → Read More