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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

trillion in 2008. million at the end of December, 2007, before the crisis hit in 2008. million in December, 2008 and the peak occurred in October, 2009 at 21.4 For years, regulatory and compliance costs have been growing dramatically. Weak readings on employment, housing data, and retail sales won’t stop them.

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My top five Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020

Lex Sokolin

Further, actually touching client funds immediately makes these apps into regulated custodians or money transmitters or financial advisors, which means a lot of compliance cost for little upside. If you raised money from SoftBank, you have to take on large risk, while the banks will take another 5 years to touch real DeFi. (2)