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156057
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182935
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The financial system is currently in a period of exceptionally rapid technological and organizational change, with the adoption of cloud computing to store and process financial data, artificial intelligence to analyze it, and blockchain to secure it. It is fashionable to assert that digital currencies will be part of that future. But cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are too volatile to possess the essential attributes of money. Stablecoins have fragile currency pegs that diminish their utility in transactions. And central bank digital currencies are a solution in search of a problem.
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184052
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Are price discontinuities in cryptocurrencies jointly related to large swings in geopolitical risk? This is a relevant question to answer given recent news from the press that Bitcoin’s price jumps are driven by jumps in the level of geopolitical risk index. To answer this question, we examine first the jump incidence of daily returns for Bitcoin and other leading cryptocurrencies and then study the co-jumps between cryptocurrencies and the geopolitical risk index using logistic regressions. Our dataset is at the daily frequency and covers the period 30 April 2013 to 31 October 2019. The results show that the price behaviour of all cryptocurrencies under study is jumpy but only Bitcoin jumps are dependent on jumps in the geopolitical risk index. This revealed evidence of significant co-jumps for the case of Bitcoin only nicely complements previous studies arguing that Bitcoin is a hedge against geopolitical risk.
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181411
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This article analyzes acts of the People's Bank of China (PBoC) and the Macao Monetary Authority. It shows that the recognition of initial coin offerings (ICO) as illegal financing and the ban on the use by financial organizations of tokens and cryptocurrency in transactions are measures aimed at preventing corruption and criminal money laundering. Hong Kong, unlike mainland China and Macao, partially regulates digital financial assets. Although tokens and cryptocurrency resemble securities or futures, their circulation belongs to the legislative scope of the securities market; otherwise, transactions with them are unregulated and investors have no protection.
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157682
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Driven by advances in data analytics, machine learning, and smart devices, financial technology is changing the way Canadians interact with the financial sector. The evolving landscape is further influenced by cryptocurrencies: non-fiat, decentralized digital payment systems, like Bitcoin, that operate outside the formal financial sector. While Bitcoin has garnered attention for facilitating criminal activity, including money laundering, terrorism financing, digital ransomware, weapons trafficking, and tax evasion, it is Bitcoin's underlying protocol, the blockchain, that represents an innovation capable of transforming financial services and challenging existing security, financial, and public safety regulations and policies. Canada's challenge is to find the right balance between oversight and innovation. Our paper examines these competing interests: we provide an overview of blockchain technologies, illustrate their potential in Canada and abroad, and examine the government's role in fostering innovation while concurrently bolstering regulations, maintaining public safety, and securing the integrity of financial systems.
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155987
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189423
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This article examines the relationships between 21 fiat currencies to Bitcoin price movements using daily data from the beginning of 2012 to the end of March 2021. We use a two-stage analysis. The first stage excludes currencies, which are uncorrelated with the daily returns of the Bitcoin. The second stage is to run a Granger-causality test on the remaining six currencies to examine whether lagged excess returns on the Bitcoin Granger-cause the excess returns on the currencies or vice versa. Results support the conclusion that the return on Bitcoin Granger-Cause the return on the Israeli Shekel (ILS), but not vice versa. A possible explanation of these outcomes is the susceptibility of financial investors in Bitcoin and the ILS to the Israeli economy.
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