Bank Insider: Cryptofinance Will Not Be the End of Wall Street
Finance and banking has seen its fair share of innovation over the centuries, and Bitcoin and its blockchain technology are already making a new chapter in this history. To get a better sense of how the industry views this innovation, I interviewed the head of Technology Risk for the Wealth & Investment Management portion of Wells Fargo Bank, Jimmie....
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Overstock.com, Inc., the e-commerce retailer, became the first company to solicit qualified institutional buyers in a digital corporate bond that will trade using the bitcoin block chain. This development is part of Overstock's larger cryptofinance initiative known as Medici. "The cryptorevolution has arrived on Wall Street," said Overstock.com CEO Patrick M. Byrne. "We're making it official by offering the world's first 'cryptosecurity.'". Byrne defined a cryptosecurity as a security that trades on a cryptographically-protected distributed ledger. Cryptosecurity buyers will be able to....
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Terraform Labs has accused one of Wall Street’s largest trading firms, Jane Street, of allegedly using a private Telegram group chat with insiders to dump its TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin holdings just hours before its collapse. Related Reading: Top Crypto Exchange Expands Into UK With New Local Platform Jane Street Used Terraform Group Chat For ‘Defi […]