The crypto industry suffered some savage blows in 2022. Optimists say that these events will serve to blow away the speculative froth, shake out the bad actors and let the rest of the industry get on with building some truly valuable applications for blockchain under the renewed scrutiny of regulators. Perhaps they’re right, but even those outside of the crypto speculation game will have a great deal of work to do to overcome the fiascos that occurred towards the end of last year.
MEETINGS Public sector bond market outlook 2023 Thursday 26 January, Launch This launch event presents the key findings of the first annual global sovereign, supranational and agency issuer survey from OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute.
ON DEMAND Everything FTX Sinan Yilmaz, account and content manager at OMFIF, sits down with Lewis McLellan, editor of the Digital Monetary Institute, to discuss everything related to FTX and its downfall. Their conversation covers the domino effects, whether MiCa would have prevented this and how it compares to Enron in the early 2000s.
LATEST REPORT Future of payments 2022 This report focuses on the challenges of cross-border payments for emerging market countries, delving into the validity of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as a means of escaping domestic inflation and sending cheap remittances.
