Fintech is rapidly transforming the online financial sector with dozens of new companies springing up to implement radical changes to the way we bank, invest and buy. This trend is just getting started and will continue to impact our daily lives.
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Technology has brought with it many advancements and it has heavily influenced how many industries are conducting their business. Organizations that fail to incorporate technology into their way of doing business are losing out to competitors that have fully embraced technology into their daily operations.
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Technology and automation have changed the way we live. Often, it has made our lives simpler in ways we are not even aware of. The financial world has experienced some major changes over the last few years, due to the explosion of digital devices made possible by technology and more compact printed circuit boards (PCBs).
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Bitcoin prices has been able to benefit from the “return in risk aversion” in the markets on fresh catalysts. In this article Chris Vermeulen, “The Gold and Oil Guy” takes a look at Bitcoin and some of the Trends involved.
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All of these systems paved the way for the advent of eCommerce. Imagine trying to buy something online if all we had was physical currency. It would effectively be impossible to process electronic transactions without these modern digital currency alternatives. This area is bound to explode in coming years as the desire for more electronic transactions collides with a desire for more electronic privacy.
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Although the seeds of the 2008 financial crisis were sown at a much earlier period of time, the banking institutions continued to reap the benefits of easy money until the financial crisis of 2008 negatively impacted the economy. The damage would have been much larger had U.S. taxpayer’s money not been used to bail out a large number of struggling banks and companies.
It is now more than eight years since the last financial crisis has occurred, and the current global situation is now beyond that of the financial crisis of 2008. The central banks have been able to kick the can down the road, but that has only produced such vast proportions of debt that the next financial crisis will not be manageable by the global central banks.
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The Bank of England’s recent announcement on interest rates represented a double-edged sword for savers. Under the new leadership of Mark Carney, the bank unveiled a radical new policy of ‘forward guidance’ that promises to keep rates on hold until official unemployment figures fall from their current rate of 7.8% to 7%. According to the bank’s predictions, this could see interest rates remain at ultra-low levels until after the 2015 General Election.
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Do you really want the bulk of your life savings sitting with one company? What if they go belly-up? Can you afford to have a major portion of your nest egg tied up for months while the FDIC and/or the SIPC tries to sort things out? FDIC and SIPC insurance tends to lull us into a sense of complacency… no worries… the Government will protect us. Or will they? What about Cyprus? We know they will protect the big banksters… but will they actually protect the little guy like you and me? In today’s article Dennis Miller of Casey Research looks at the steps that every investor needs to take now to protect themselves.
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The Third Basel Accord (i.e. Basel III) is a voluntary global regulatory standard on banks requiring adequate capital and providing stress testing and market liquidity guidelines. Members of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision agreed on the accord in 2010–11 and scheduled it to be phased in from 2013 through 2019. Basel III was developed in response to the deficiencies in financial regulation revealed by the late-2000s financial crisis. Basel III was supposed to strengthen bank capital requirements by increasing bank liquidity and bank leverage based on the specific types of assets and liabilities held by the bank rather than being based on general assumptions that all banks are the same.
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If Cyprus is the bellwether, then Canada is the red flag, showing that Cyprus is not an isolated situation. The damage wreaked by monumental debt is systemic, and it has taken place throughout the First World and beyond.
This latter statement will very likely be the most difficult to accept as reality. If so, here is something to consider: Canada has approved its bail-in on a national level just one week after a final decision was made in Cyprus. As we all know, the wheels of governments worldwide move slowly. The reader might ask himself whether he believes that the Canadian government has, in short order, approved its own bail-in, in reaction to the events in Cyprus. If this possibility is simply too far-fetched, he must accept that the plan for Cyprus has been known to the Canadian government for some time and that a similar bail-in for Canada has been in the works for a while. It was simply agreed that Cyprus would go first – to act as the litmus test.
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