Episodes

  • First crypto FSP licences about to drop

    First crypto FSP licences about to drop
    Jan 24 2024
    Gerhard van Deventer, head of enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, says the first batch of financial services provider (FSP) licences are about to be issued to crypto service providers. That will make it easier to shut down crypto scammers before they get started. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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    30 mins
  • Will tokenised assets one day rule the world?

    Will tokenised assets one day rule the world?
    Jul 24 2024
    Mesh.trade is a new marketplace for 'tokenised' financial assets and recently raised R100 million in the form of a bond for building out schools. Could markets like these, where entrepreneurs big and small can raise capital in as little as three months, come to challenge established stock exchanges? Connie Bloem, founder and MD of Mesh.trade, takes us on a guided tour of the future of tokenised financial assets and what to expect next. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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    32 mins
  • Pick n Pay surpasses R1m a month in crypto payments.

    Pick n Pay surpasses R1m a month in crypto payments.
    Jul 17 2024
    That may seem like small change for a group tallying more than R9 billion a month in sales, but what's impressive is the exponential growth in crypto as a means of payment, and what people are spending on. Carel van Wyk, founder of Money Badger, the company which enabled the crypto payment service at Pick n Pay and continues to manage it, takes us through the numbers. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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    26 mins
  • Bitcoin breaks ranks with traditional assets

    Bitcoin breaks ranks with traditional assets
    Jul 10 2024
    Bitcoin has a low correlation to traditional assets such as equities, bonds and cash, and that correlation is weakening with time. Jason Welz, digital lead at alternative investment company Jaltech, explains how this reality is starting to stir traditional asset managers and investors into action. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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    27 mins
  • Should you keep your crypto with your exchange?

    Should you keep your crypto with your exchange?
    Jul 3 2024
    Or move it to a wallet you control? Kreaan Singh, founder of crypto education platform CoinEd and project manager for distributed ledger technology at the CSIR, argues there is a time to keep your coins on the exchange, and a time to move them to self-custody. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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    25 mins
  • Binance hits the 200m user mark and dwarfs the banks

    Binance hits the 200m user mark and dwarfs the banks
    Jun 26 2024
    The world financial system is undergoing radical change, and crypto is driving it. Binance's growth story over just seven years is a case study in that evolution, as its SA country manager Hannes Wessels explains. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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    22 mins
  • Is bitcoin exhaustion setting in?

    Is bitcoin exhaustion setting in?
    Jun 19 2024
    Bitcoin and ether prices have flat-lined in recent months, but don't be fooled. We are in the year of the bitcoin halving, which has historically been associated with a surge in prices, explains Omer Iqbal, CEO of FiveWest. The real trend to watch in the coming months is the adoption of US dollar stablecoins by mid-sized companies seeking to hedge their offshore exposures. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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    21 mins
  • How to weed out the crypto fluff

    How to weed out the crypto fluff
    Jun 12 2024
    There are more than 60 000 cryptocurrencies, most of them junk. The team at Riskbloq, headed by founder and CEO Nzwisisa Chidembo, has developed tools to filter out the noise and make sense of more than 3 000 of the more viable projects. This SA-developed toolkit is now getting the attention of serious crypto players around the world. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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    33 mins