Cryptocurrency

Podcast What might the Sam Bankman-Fried trial mean for banks?

The case is not really about cryptocurrency but about fraud, points out Seoyoung Kim, department chair and associate professor of finance and business analytics at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. But regulators and lawmakers are watching and the outcome of the trial will have repercussions throughout finance.

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Bankman-Fried Released on $250 Million Bond in FTX Fraud Case

Small bank, big decisions

Josh Williams, chief banking officer for Seattle Bank, explains how changes in payments technology will affect smaller institutions.

June 8
Podcast What should crypto regulation look like?

It's likely that laws and regulation will be enacted in 2023 that will rein in cryptocurrency-related companies and banks' involvement with such companies. Georgia Quinn, general counsel, and Rachel Anderika, chief risk officer at Anchorage Digital, share the rules they think should apply.

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Podcast 'Democrats lost the House. I'm less convinced that Republicans won it.'

A panel of experts discuss the midterm elections, the FTX blowup and the legislative and regulatory policy implications that both will have in Washington.

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Leaders

The crypto conundrum

Cathy Beardsley, the CEO of Segpay, and Christiaan Brand, a security expert from Google, discuss how to overcome the hurdles that are still in the way of cryptocurrencies being widely used for payments.

May 31
Podcast Countering SEC chair's claim that stablecoins are 'poker chips'

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire argues that Gary Gensler’s association of stablecoins with gambling doesn’t match how they're used, the way they're regulated or their potential benefit to the financial system.

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Podcast Will there ever be a Basel V?

The Basel III reforms initiated after 2008 and the hard-fought Basel IV provisions completed in 2017 made banks more resilient. International consensus on new challenges like climate change and cybersecurity could be impossible.

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Podcast A small bank's journey into crypto

Vast Bank in Oklahoma now has an app that allows customers to do their banking and buy and sell eight digital currencies. CEO Brad Scrivner explains his motivations, his comfort level with cryptocurrency volatility and what else the app can do.

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PSO content

Why consumers are finally paying with crypto

Kate Fitzgerald, senior editor at PaymentsSource, talks to Kurt Kumar, vice president of marketing and business development at RocketFuel, about the growing use of crypto in payments exhibited by Visa, PayPal and others.

By Kate Fitzgerald

May 4
Blockchain

How cryptocurrency is changing the movement of money

Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency hedge fund Polychain Capital, discusses which digital currencies and blockchain technologies are reshaping payments and which are “nonsense projects.”

By Penny Crosman

February 1

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