Paris in the middle of winter can be brutal, but one year ago, attendees at the Paris Fintech Forum were hot with crypto fever. When one of Europe’s biggest annual gatherings of its kind convened this year in the City of Light, over 3,000 entrepreneurs, investors, bankers, and regulators braved the cold once again, but…
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LeapRate Exclusive... The global elite and their private jets flew into Davos, Switzerland, last week for the 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting to review, discuss, and debate the pressing world issues of the day. Occasionally, the setting provided an excellent platform for individual leaders to speak to personal items of high priority in their…
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What a difference a year makes or maybe not? The global elite has departed the confab in Davos, jetting away to parts unknown until the next summit. With respect to cryptocurrencies, the opinions expressed at this year’s event were muted, at best. One need only remember that last year at this time Bitcoin was at…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for January 22, 2019. Highlights include: Rising Inequality a Backdrop at Davos: The annual forum in Davos is a meeting of the world’s wealthiest to try to solve inequality, a problem that has risen following the…
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The CEOs of two major international banks made similar warnings at the Davos World Economic Forum on Wednesday, that they will likely be shifting thousands of financial services jobs out of London over the next few years thanks to Brexit. Axel Weber, Chairman of Switzerland based UBS AG (SWX:UBSN), said at Davos that as many…
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Business information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has launched a World Economic Forum (WEF) app on its flagship desktop product Eikon, a one-stop location for market data, news, and analysis leading up to and through the 2017 WEF in Davos, being held January 17-20, 2017. The 2017 WEF is convening under the theme of “Responsive…
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