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IWD 2021: No more talking, it s time for action on female representation in fintech 08 March 2021 2020 may have been a year of challenge, but it proved that above all else, digital resilience will remain foundational, not only to female financial inclusion, but to female representation across the fintech sector.
The 2021 International Women’s Day (IWD) slogan is #ChooseToChallenge, as “a challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change. So let’s all choose to challenge.”
Analysis
One of the most enduring cryptocurrency-related narratives revolves around the search of cryptoâs definition as an asset class. Is Bitcoin (BTC) more of a digital currency or digital gold? Do its unique properties warrant viewing it as something completely distinct from the established categories of financial instruments? A recently published report by JPMorgan Chaseâs strategists has sparked yet another round of such debates.
The conclusions that the report presents are at odds with the âBitcoin as a safe-haven assetâ trope that has become somewhat conventional wisdom lately. The authors contend that the original cryptocurrency is actually not that great of a hedge in a situation when markets are undergoing severe stress and that expansion of retail ownership has rendered it more similar to a cyclical asset that moves up and down along with the stock market.
Senator Warren Demands that the SEC Answers Questions Regarding Dramatic Price Changes in Shares like Gamestop
February 1, 2021 @ 3:19 pm By JD Alois
Senator Elizabeth Warren has sent a letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission demanding answers to several questions regarding the heightened volatility pertaining to the recent short-squeezes ostensibly created by Redditors focusing on hedge funds with heavy short positions.
Senator Warren said the price changes are not tied to any fundamental changes in the companies in question.
In brief, Warren asks the Commission to answer the following questions:
1. What were the causes of the recent dramatic shifts in GameStop share prices? Did these shifts represent a “fair, orderly, and efficient” market function?
London Stock Exchange Group Partner Platform to Add Decentralized Capital Market, AllianceBlock
AllianceBlock, the first “globally compliant” decentralized capital market, has entered into an agreement to join the
London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) Partner Platform.
According to a release shared with CI, the Partner Platform will provide institutional members “the ability to have direct market access” to AllianceBlock. The Platform aims to support AllianceBlock so that it can offer “innovative” applications and services to financial markets.
As noted in the announcement, LSEG’s Partner Platform provides AllianceBlock access to “unique” go-to-market resources and will focus on helping it on its mission of establishing the first globally compliant “decentralized” capital market.
AllianceBlock Connects to London Stock Exchange Group Partner Platform
- AllianceBlock is now a member of LSEG s Partner Platform, giving LSEG s institutional members direct market access to AllianceBlock.
UTRECHT, Netherlands, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ AllianceBlock, the first globally compliant decentralized capital market, has today announced it signed an agreement to join London Stock Exchange Group s (LSEG) Partner Platform. Providing institutional members the ability to have direct market access to AllianceBlock, the Partner Platform supports AllianceBlock to provide innovative applications and services to financial markets.
LSEG s Partner Platform offers AllianceBlock access to unique go-to-market resources and to help it on its mission of creating the world s first globally compliant decentralized capital market. Joining the Partner Platform enables AllianceBlock to reach institutional clients over LSEG s Global Innovation Network, a purpose-built network infrastructur