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Why banks are looking at real-world asset tokenisation
Banks spend billions each year on systems to track and finalise millions of trades. Could crypto help to streamline processes?
- James Eyers and Jessica Sier
Tokenisation of real-world assets is the killer app for crypto
What if crypto was not only a speculative asset class but a new technology stack for financial markets?
- James Eyers and Jessica Sier
Traders tip bitcoin to hit $US100,000 within five years
Approval of the first bitcoin ETFs is expected to trigger big demand from institutional investors such as superannuation funds.
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- Joshua Peach
Bitcoin’s ‘moral imperative’ to replace fiat currencies
Bitcoin can fulfil a dual role as both a store of value and money to buy goods and services, The Australian Financial Review’s Crypto Summit heard.
- Tom Richardson
ASIC chairman warns new crypto rules need more time
Corporate regulator Joe Longo calls for patience and investor Mark Carnegie says crypto sector has “nobody to blame but ourselves” for new regulation.
- James Eyers, Jessica Sier and Jemima Whyte
October
‘Tokenised’ assets could save markets $17b a year: RBA
The central bank estimates companies and the government could save $17 billion if real-world assets are created in digitised form.
- James Eyers and Jessica Sier
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- Cryptocurrencies
Coinbase boss Brian Armstrong says SEC lawsuit ‘unhelpful’
The boss of the world’s only listed crypto exchange says his legal fight with US regulators is an unhelpful way to regulate a new industry.
- Jessica Sier
Crypto industry must ‘suffer’ for consorting with criminals
Mark Carnegie says cryptocurrency players must pay penance after making “common cause with criminals and scumbags”.
- Mark Di Stefano
MHC Digital Group founder Mark Carnegie on crypto regulation
"Whatever happens in terms of the regulatory framework ... we have nobody to blame but ourselves," says MHC Digital Group founder Mark Carnegie.
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Crypto exchanges to be regulated under bolstered licence regime
Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones will detail the government’s crypto regulation plans at The Australian Financial Review Crypto Summit on Monday.
- James Eyers, Jessica Sier and Tom Richardson
How crypto is forcing banks, funds towards new digital asset markets
The market cap of cryptocurrencies is $1 trillion. But real-world assets are valued at $800 trillion. How much could be “tokenised” onto blockchains to create efficiencies?
- James Eyers
‘Billion dollar ticking bomb’ for SMSFs buying bitcoin
Crypto’s explosion in popularity has seen SMSF investors buy Bitcoin and Ethereum but some exchanges do not give investors formal custody.
- Mark Di Stefano
How sharemarket bets took this NBA champion from basketball to bitcoin
Sports champion and Young Rich Lister Matthew Dellavedova is investing his wealth in tech start-ups and crypto as he worries about central banks printing money.
- Tom Richardson
The bitcoin v gold tussle is just gearing up
Bitcoin has thumped gold’s returns over the past 14 years, but the jury is still out on which is a better inflation hedge.
- Tom Richardson
- Opinion
- Review
Did Michael Lewis get sucked in by Sam Bankman-Fried?
The bestselling financial author met the cryptocurrency boss at the apex of his wealth and influence. The pair may have become far too close.
- James Ledbetter
Fred Schebesta’s Finder claims its crypto product wasn’t money
Its lawyers laid out why the comparison website wasn’t beholden to existing regulations when it issued its now-defunct crypto product.
- Jessica Sier
Crypto FTX co-founder admits ‘we did it’
Gary Wang, co-founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has told a court that he and Sam Bankman-Fried committed wire and securities fraud.
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Cryptocurrencies
Gaunt, shorn and bankrupt: fallen SBF appears in court
The former crypto mogul who once rubbed shoulders with celebrities and political leaders looked thin and was flanked by lawyers as his six-week trial began.
- Matthew Cranston
Australian FTX creditors’ long wait | Metigy investors’ texts | A closer look at Airwallex
The Australian Financial Review’s new tech newsletter The Download takes an insightful look at the week’s biggest tech stories, deals and trends.
- Nick Bonyhady
Crypto goes on trial along with Sam Bankman-Fried
The FTX founder’s uphill court battle starts this week, after he has come to symbolise everything that went wrong with the cryptocurrency industry.
- David Yaffe-Bellany and Matthew Goldstein
What you need to know about FTX founder’s case
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former chief executive of the collapsed FTX exchange, will begin his six-week trial in New York City on Wednesday (AEDT).
- Jessica Sier
Hong Kong crypto fraud linked to Sydney unit
JPEX, the Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchange, which collapsed owing more than $300 million, was registered to an apartment building in Sydney’s north.
- Jessica Sier
September
Fireblocks buys Australian blockchain start-up BlockFold
Fireblocks paid about $15.6 million for BlockFold, a Melbourne-based start-up that helps financial institutions build blockchain-based systems.
- Anna Irrera
Crypto founder William Wu rattles the tin, again
Street Talk understands the Oaktree Capital alumnus is doing the rounds, this time seeking to raise $US5 million for a generative AI photography business.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
This fintech lets you pay for fuel with bitcoin
A small, but growing, cohort of consumers is tapping their crypto wallets to pay for fuel, powered by a local payments innovation.
- Tess Bennett
