#Federal Reserve News

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FTC Commissioner Urges Federal Reserve to Launch Public Payments System and Block Libra

November 9, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Bitcoin

Rohit Chopra, Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has written an open letter to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell to launch their real-time payments system, FedNow, at the earliest to curb megabank monopolies and private sector abuse, November 7, 2019. Public Sector Curbing Libra It goes without saying that...

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The U.S. Federal Reserve to Launch Real-Time Payments System

August 6, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Finance

In a bid to make it possible for financial institutions under its purview to facilitate real-time, round-the-clock payments, the United States Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank, has announced plans to launch its new payment and settlement service called FedNow, according to a press release on August 5, 2019. Modernized...

Central Bank Digital Currencies May Come Sooner than Expected

July 1, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Finance, Regulation

After the official announcement of Libra, Agustín Carstens, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), revealed that central banks may adopt digital currencies sooner than we expect. The fear is that big tech groups such as Facebook could establish a dominant position in global finance and pose...

Bitcoin as a Haven Asset: Investors De-Risking Portfolios Following Dovish Monetary Policies

May 16, 2019 by Osato Avan-Nomayo at Bitcoin, Finance, Investment, News

James Turk of Goldmoney says investors are de-risking their portfolios by pivoting away from bonds and stocks into assets like bitcoin and gold. The banking, investments, and commodities expert speaking to King World News said dovish central banks policies, a weak European banking system, and the U.S. – China trade...

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Bitcoin Won’t Stop Rallying, Says Hedge Fund Manager Travis Kling

May 14, 2019 by Osato Avan-Nomayo at Adoption, Bitcoin, Moonshot, News

Travis Kling, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Ikigai Asset Management believes bitcoin (BTC) is in for a significantly long rally. In a recent discussion on the TD Ameritrade Network, May 13 2019, the hedge fund manager says recent policy decisions by major central banks around the world will cause capital...

Government-Backed Cryptocurrency To Come Soon, Says Ex-Federal Reserve VP

April 30, 2018 by Shaurya Malwa at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News

After 2018’s bearish Q1 for the cryptocurrency market, Q2 is marked with positive news, increased adoption, institutional investing, and a generally bullish sentiment. Taking this trend further is a former Federal Reserve executive, who is certain about cryptocurrencies being adopted by central banks in the near future, providing customers and...

Why Do People Trust Satoshi Nakamoto More Than the Federal Reserve?

April 16, 2018 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, Commentary, News

On April 9, the chief of the NYSE declared that crypto trading is an area that they cannot ignore, and stated that people trust the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, more than they trust the Federal Reserve (or ‘the Fed’), the central bank of the world’s largest economy. In...

U.S. Federal Governor Calls Out Cryptocurrencies, Terms it ‘Extremely Volatile!’

April 5, 2018 by Shaurya Malwa at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News

With all the talk that surrounds crypto’s nature on a daily basis, the most recent term to be associated with it is “extremely volatile.” On Tuesday, the digital currency got called out for their extreme volatility by one of the members of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. Owing to...

Is There a Relationship Between Gold, Bitcoin and the Recent Fed Rate Hike?

March 24, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points Wednesday, March 21, 2018, taking the benchmark funds rate from a target of 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent. This was the first rate hike under the chairmanship of the new governor, Jerome Powell, who was handpicked by President Trump. The...

The Federal Reserve May Inflate the Debt Away, Emboldening a Positive Fundamental for BTC-USD

July 26, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News

Almost ten years since the global financial crisis and interest rates are still very low in the US. Higher inflation to reduce the debt load and the realization of the true state of the US economy may spark a positive fundamental driving BTC-USD to new highs over the medium term....

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