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Articles by Guy Ettlin
Challenger Banks: Solving a Catch 22 for Refugees
Remember when online banking became a thing? Making payments from your living room was pretty cool, but if you wanted to open a new account, let alone switch banks, you still had to make the trip to the bank to talk to your advisor across heaps of forms waiting to be filled out and signed. Fast forward to leap-year 2016: Monzo makes headlines when they accidentally crash Crowdcube on February 29 due to overwhelming demand for investing in their app-only challenger bank.
Nestle Tries to Cut Ties with Sugar
The consumer packaged goods industry is struggling to meet expectations. As the largest food manufacturer in the world, Nestle has been able to defy industry trends in 2016. Now its 2017 results have been released and the numbers are concerning. Organic growth of 2.4% is the lowest in two decades, indicating that Nestle has finally fallen onto the same trajectory that is plaguing the rest of the industry.
Arsenal First Football Team to Use Cryptocurrency
When the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, Ripple could officially be termed the best performing cryptocurrency of 2017 with a 36,000% increase in value. But the start of 2018 put a different currency in the spotlight: XLM Lumens, the native currency of the Stellar network. The superior performance of XLM propelled Stellar up into the top 10 cryptocurrencies according to market capitalization.
Stellar and Ripple: Set to Clash?
When the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, Ripple could officially be termed the best performing cryptocurrency of 2017 with a 36,000% increase in value. But the start of 2018 put a different currency in the spotlight: XLM lumens, the native currency of the Stellar network. The superior performance of XLM propelled Stellar up into the top 10 cryptocurrencies according to market capitalization.
Bitcoin Falls in the New Year
As the daily gyrations in the price of Bitcoin continue to dominate the media cycle, inviting prognostications from financial commentators and Christmas dinner participants alike, one cannot help but think: just what is going on? How has the fate of Bitcoin, once the exclusive province of crypto-nerds and drug dealers, become the matter of the moment? This article will seek to shed light on how and why Bitcoin’s notoriety has grown, and just what may lay ahead over the forthcoming year.
The Two Sides of Ripple
In August of 2008, the domain bitcoin.org was registered, and just three months later, a mysterious entity posted the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, an entity claiming to be a 36-year old Japanese man, the whitepaper is only a nine-page document outlining the core fundamentals of Bitcoin, and was followed by the first open source Bitcoin client in January of 2009. Satoshi himself mined the first block, called the genesis block, which had a reward of 50 bitcoins.
Bitcoin, Ripple and Cryptocurrencies: Here to Stay and Prosper
It is nigh on impossible to observe financial news without hearing about the rise of cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, which recently surpassed the $15,000 mark and is continuously setting new all-time highs. As a record number of people are investing in the cryptocurrency, and an ever-increasing number of businesses now accept it, global usage and adoption of Bitcoin is set to increase.
Bitcoin Futures: The Long and the Short of It
As cryptocurrency markets continue to expand at unparalleled rates, an important development is unfolding this month – the official launch of bitcoin futures. Various announcements in recent weeks that bitcoin would soon enter the world of sophisticated financial derivatives have helped push the price of the currency to record highs above $11,000.
Blockchain: Redefining the Fourth Industrial Revolution
What do Warren Buffett, Jamie Damon, Robert Shiller and Jack Bogle have in common? Trailblazers in their chosen professional fields, one could quite rightly say. And yes, they would be spot on, but there is much more than that. They are all baffled, like most people, by the astronomical valuation of the Bitcoin, the world’s first and leading digital currency that was built on the blockchain technology platform.
Interest Rates: Why They Aren’t Budging
Since the 2008 financial crisis, interest rates have been very low. This is commonly attributed to policies of central bankers that have used methods such as quantitative easing as a short-term strategy to preserve healthy markets as much as possible. One decade later, quantitative easing has come to an end and many are wondering when interest rates will start to rise.
Metronome: The New Entrant to the Cryptocurrency Market - The Market Mogul
While bitcoin is soaring high and people are readying themselves for the upcoming November fork, some are turning their attention to a new currency that was unveiled at the Las Vegas Money 20/20 event a week ago. Its name is Metronome (MTN) and it is backed by Bloq CEO Jeff Garzik, a former core developer of bitcoin and a big (and controversial) name in the industry.
Ripple: How Could Its Value Develop in the Future? - The Market Mogul
When thinking about buying XRP, the cryptocurrency that runs on the Ripple blockchain payment system, investors should be considering what role Ripple might play over the course of the next decade. A couple of important considerations factor into this. Unlike many other popular cryptocurrencies, XRP is not mined. There are 100 billion coins in existence, and they were created by the company Ripple. Ripple has been fast growing and is currently at a market cap of just under $7.5bn.
A Brief Look at Basic Income and Automation - The Market Mogul
While a guaranteed minimum income (GMI) is popular in many societies, basic income has not yet taken proper hold as a system of welfare. Whereas GMI makes welfare transfers conditional on certain criteria (such as earning below the means of existence), basic income distinguishes itself by unconditionally transferring a set amount of wealth to all citizens of a country. Initiatives to debate and implement basic income started in the 1970s in Denmark and the Netherland.
Ripple: Why It Should Be at the Centre of the Cryptocurrency Debate - The Market Mogul
Since bitcoin’s creation in 2009, the world has largely divided itself into supporters and sceptics on the matter of this new financial technology. China’s recent ban on ICOs is yet another manifestation of deep concern about the social value of cryptocurrencies. Why would people, governments, and institutions be wary of cryptocurrencies?
How the Oil Price Rise Is Pushing Renewable Energy Forward - The Market Mogul
In the second quarter of 2014, the world saw a sharp drop in oil prices. Since the beginning of 2015, it has fluctuated in the ballpark of roughly $40 per barrel, with a max of $63 and a minimum of $26. The drop was largely attributed to a phenomenon that The Economist magazine termed Sheikhs vs Shale. American oil production gained momentum using extensive fracking techniques, which ended OPEC’s market dominance and made the US a serious competitor in the industry.
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