Cryptocurrency drop echoes wider sentiment across stock markets January 6, 2022 Bitcoin fell below $43,000 in the early hours of this morning, testing lows not seen since the start of December.
The three potential metaversal consequences of QEndless January 5, 2022 Dr Chris Kacher examines how the world is on a knife edge, but could a metaversal snowflake create an avalanche to tip the scales?
Slow start for Bitcoin, but cryptocurrency is outpacing stocks and shares January 5, 2022 Bitcoin is up one per cent to just below $47k, while second-largest cryptocurrency Ethereum is up 1.5 per cent to around $3,800.
Best of 2021: Football training can be safer with VR technology December 26, 2021 Technology is ever-changing, and that includes in sport too. Matt Hardy took a look at how new VR could revolutionise the way football teams train. Originally published on October 15. A whipped cross and a powerful header towards goal are staples of football and the essence of set-piece tactics used by every football team. But [...]
Best of 2021: Forest Green owner Dale Vince on saving the planet, one match at a time December 26, 2021 In this interview from March 2021, pioneering eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince discusses the rise of the football club he owns, Forest Green Rovers, the world’s first vegan and carbon-neutral team, who play on an organic pitch in kits made of recycled coffee beans. With a large green Union Jack behind him and a casually dishevelled appearance, [...]
Market outlook for 2022 December 23, 2021 With 2021 is ending a relatively volatile fashion compared to the calm that prevailed throughout most of the year, is this a recognition of the issues that lie ahead in 2022? Inflation The ‘great reopening’ of the global economy of 2021 prompted a bout of inflation of a magnitude not seen for decades. A spiral [...]
Exclusive: ‘No quick fixes’ in 2022 as Deutsche Bank’s global investment chief discusses inflation and central banks December 22, 2021 Inflation and central banks will be in focus next year. In fact, 2022 should be the year where central bank policy really starts to change gear, with other central banks to follow the Fed’s line on tightening, according to Christian Nolting, Global Chief Investment Officer at Deutsche Bank. “But there will be plenty of other regime [...]
Vive la metaverse, and all hail DAOs! December 22, 2021 DeFi is the backbone of a new financial system that displaces legacy banking, says Dr Chris Kacher.
Omicron uncertainty continues to spook cryptocurrency markets December 20, 2021 Bitcoin is down slightly today, falling almost two per cent over the past 24 hours to just above the $46k mark.
HSBC fined £64m for eight years of anti-money laundering failures December 17, 2021 Britain’s financial watchdog has fined HSBC Bank £63.9m for failings in its anti-money laundering processes in the eight-year period between 2010 and 2018, it said this morning. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it had identified “serious weaknesses” in three key parts of the automated processes that the banking giant uses to monitor hundreds of [...]