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    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
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      The rise of the platform economy

      Every company should have a strategy to help it grow outside its home market, both geographically and across product lines

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      Claer Barrett
      Could a digital pound pay off for consumers?

      The Bank of England’s ‘Britcoin’ project could transform transactions — but questions about who gains from our data remain

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
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      Platform aims to increase transparency on provenance of pieces from smaller makers, boosting resale potential

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Hector Torres
      Advocates for friendshoring have not reckoned with digital trade

      Determining whether bytes originated in a ‘friendly country’ is painstaking work

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Government of Italy
      European Commission attacks Italy’s support for cash transactions

      Brussels warns prime minister Giorgia Meloni not to undermine tax evasion fight

    • Sunday, 11 December, 2022
      Cryptocurrencies
      Investors withdraw record levels of coins from crypto exchanges

      Traders rush for exits alarmed at safety of their assets after FTX filed for bankruptcy

    • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
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      Meloni pushes back on Italy’s shift into digital payments age

      Brussels may resist plan to give businesses the right to demand cash for low-value transactions

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
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      Digital trade must not become a zero-sum game

      The danger for policymakers is that information has a tendency to be monopolised

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      Crypto exchange’s chief admits venue did not have funds to meet surge in withdrawals

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Edward Stringer
      Putin knows that undersea cables are the west’s Achilles heel

      Moscow has invested in subsurface naval capabilities that hold the world’s internet infrastructure at risk

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Who killed the social media ad boom?

      A decade of breakneck growth has ground to a halt and there are plenty of suspects beyond the slowing global economy

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Greg Peters
      Hitting content providers with internet tolls would damage the web ecosystem

      Entertainment is not a cost that ISPs have to bear — it generates the demand they need for growth

    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      The stubborn persistence of paper in a digital world

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    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
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    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
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      Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth

      Rising prices of critical components cast shadow over 5G rollout and development of data centres

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
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      New industries will require new knowhow — but shortfalls in more basic skills also need to be remedied

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      Lobbying by the likes of Amazon and Alphabet ramps up as Congress prepares to vote on landmark legislation

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      DeFi’s promise of democratising finance remains a distant reality

      Decentralised finance risks concentrating economic power and exacerbating existing inequities

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      Michael Stott
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      MercadoLibre aims to ‘democratise finance’ with payments app

      MercadoPago has become one of the most lucrative parts of the Latin American ecommerce giant’s business

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