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The return of monetary politics

25^th March 2015
- Lui Smyth
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Last Wednesday the government formally announced plans to welcome and regulate digital currency activity in the UK. The promise of research funding, police training, and pragmatic regulation are welcome first steps, but to what end?

bitcoin + digital currencies + Finance + Regulation
Bitcoin is not anonymous

24^th March 2015
- Tom Robinson
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The public image of bitcoin, cultivated by the media, is of the international criminal’s currency of choice – an anonymous, untraceable means of laundering proceeds of crime. This has made for compelling column inches, but the opposite is true.

Alternative finance + bitcoin + crime + digital currencies + Finance
How bitcoin works and how it’s going to change the world

23^rd March 2015
- Dominic Frisby
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If you’re anything like me, in various accounts online you’ll have some pounds, some airmiles, some supermarket rewards points, perhaps even some dollars or euros. These are all forms of money – they’re tokens that can be exchanged for some kind of good or service.

Alternative finance + digital currencies + Finance + money + prosperity
2013 Autumn Statement: Something old and something new

3^rd December 2013
- Julia Groves
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I have just two wishes: something old and something new. Something new would be that The Chancellor could allow investors to include loan-based crowdfunding investments in their annual ISA allowance It is now possible to include unlisted AIM shares in your ISA allowance, and the Treasury is understood to be generally supportive of increasing the range of qualifying investments, potentially including crowdfunding, into ISAs.

Autumn statement + Crowdfunding + Finance + P2P
Pre-Regulation: Removing the need for regulators and state regulation

1^st November 2013
- Adam Wildman
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The regulation of organisations and markets is a costly affair. State regulation currently costs the UK economy somewhere in the region of £30bn every year. Employment laws, health and safety regulations and financial compliance legislation provide the bulk of these costs.

Finance + Ownership + Pre-regulation + Regulation

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