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Mark Carney discussed the problems Libra must address prior to launch, while noting the problems it aims to solve, commenting that they do indeed need a solutio...

Mark Carney thinks that while regulators will have to be satisfied, Facebook users will want a cheaper way of moving money.

Senior adviser to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said that cryptocurrencies are slow, lack value and fail basic financial tests.

The Bank of England asked Twitter users to choose how they would want to receive money for Christmas, and most chose digital currency.

A report from the U.K. Cryptoassets Taskforce has proposed new regulations for cryptocurrencies, particularly on CFDs and futures that reference cryptoassets

A deputy governor at the Bank of England has warned financial institutions to be wary when dealing with crypto assets.

The Bank of England will rebuild its Real Time Gross Settlement system to interface with platforms using distributed ledger technology.

The former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair thinks that the Federal Reserve needs to “get serious” about looking into issuing its own digital currency.

Representatives from several central banks in Europe and one in Canada spoke at Money20/20 today about why fiat is not particularly threatened by crypto.

UK’s central bank explores a centralized DLT system, which would offer inter-participant privacy, regulatory oversight and keep data distributed.

UK financial watchdog will publish a joint cryptocurrency review with the Treasury and the Bank of England.

The UK Treasury has launched a cryptocurrency task force, but do UK financial institutions believe in cryptocurrencies?

The UK Treasury will support a crypto task force made up of the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority, in collaboration with Australia.

Cryptocurrency markets continue fluctuating, still do not show a significant drop.

Bloomberg has acquired a draft of a G20 document that implies that crypto should be considered an asset rather than a currency.