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Study Finds That 22 Percent Of Bitcoin Investors Are Using Debt To Fund Their Investments
January 16th, 2018
Investing in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum and Litecoin is extremely risky, and experts all over the country are warning that people should only invest what they are willing to lose. Unfortunately, many are getting swept up in ...
Study: UK consumers more likely to use proximity mobile payments than US counterparts
December 27th, 2017
The future of mobile payments appears more bright in the U.K. than the U.S. thanks to consumers’ familiarity with contactless payments, according to a report from Auriemma Consulting Group. “U.K. consumers were introduced to contactless payments in 2007,” Jaclyn ...
Monetary update for the dollar
December 1st, 2017
A dispassionate look at the quantities and flows of fiat dollars tells us much about the current state of the US economy, and therefore prospects for the dollar itself. This is a starting point for understanding the dynamics likely ...
How the Bank of England could surprise currency traders on Thursday
November 2nd, 2017
Market expectations indicate a 90 percent chance that the BOE will announce a rate hike Thursday Market expectations project only one rate hike in 2018, but if inflation remains above the bank’s 2 percent target, the BOE could be ...
A Market That is Finally Warming Up to Reverse Mortgages
October 24th, 2017
While the global pension crisis looms, the Brexit move may not have been a bad decision at all. The UK is seeing a greatly reduced pension deficit of £65 billion, which is a fair amount less than their American counterparts ...
The upcoming increase in interest rates
October 6th, 2017
Last week, both Janet Yellen of the Fed and Mark Carney of the Bank of England prepared financial markets for interest rate increases. The working assumption should be that this was coordinated, and that both the ECB and ...
Singapore and Thailand in early stage talks to connect e-payment systems
October 5th, 2017
Singapore and Thailand are in discussions about connecting their national digital payment systems to forge an unprecedented regional alliance, as officials step up efforts to curb the use of cash. The link would bring together Southeast Asia’s first national ...
Canadian Securities Regulators Announce Ban On Binary Options
September 29th, 2017
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announce the implementation of Multilateral Instrument 91-102 Prohibition of Binary Options, which makes it illegal to advertise, offer, sell or otherwise trade binary options shorter than 30 days with any individual. “Binary options are ...
Freedom Financial Network Advises Millennials to Start Thinking About Retirement Early
September 8th, 2017
Though common belief dictates that millennials (consumers born between the mid-80’s to the early 2000’s) prefer to indulge themselves in the “now” with technology and affordable luxuries rather than save, research has found that millennials actually are saving large ...
How Bitcoin is making waves in the luxury market
August 28th, 2017
When Bitcoin and a subsequent raft of cryptocurrencies first landed in the early part of the decade, many people — including noted economists and finance experts — dismissed them as a fad. These new forms of digital money were ...