By the end of 2007, Benelux bank Fortis was the 20th largest financial services business in the world by revenue. At that time, it formed a consortium of European banking greats together with consortium with Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) and the Spanish Banco Santander. When Fortis tried to take over its Dutch rival […]
The whole crypto top 10 sees red with a decline over 5%, with an exception for XRP. Within the top twenty, only VeChain and XRP are notable risers at the time of writing.According to the Wall Street Journal, Google, Facebook and Amazon, the so-called three biggest tech monopolies or the Triopoly now owns 50% of […]
Both in the US and Europe, the covid-19 pandemic has caused a price increase for assets like real estate and commodities given that there is a higher demand for houses with a garden and people are able to save more (as restaurant industry is closed and international travel is out of the question).Analysts mostly agree […]
Bitcoin continues to trade just off it’s all-time-high of $61,000 as the weekend starts (usually a bullish time) and is trading at $59,000 at the time of writing. As soon as Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention trades around the same price for a few days, we will designate it as boring. Tech stocks rebounded after Thursday’s sell-off […]
VeChain, the small crypto that’s been going parabolic in 2021, is clearly having a great number of fans in the Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg). The team from Crypto.com interviewed Sunny Lu, Co-founder and CEO of VeChain earlier this week and put the video on YouTube. It has been watched 21,000 times in three […]
I like to read up on bubbles and manias I must admit. Any media piece from a respected magazine or journal (The FT, the WSJ, the Economist, the NYT, etc) that talks about 1929, the 2000 DotCom crisis, the South Sea, the Irish housing bubble of 2007, the Japanese housing bubble of the 1980s. Any […]
Bitcoin holds the line at around $58,000 at the time of writing while the rest of the top 10 at CoinMarketCap sees a slight drop. Only exception was Cardano which dropped 10%. Stock markets in the US saw a surprising session where the Nasdaq tumbled a steep 3% as interest rates on treasury notes spiked […]
I must admit I’ve tried watching soccer matches as of late, but for me it just doesn’t have the same appeal as it used to.Without the fans inside the stadium, the noise of passing a ball and trainers shouting to players makes it look like a training ground from when I was young. Ah, back […]
Avalanche (AVAX) is one of the newest projects that was launched in 2020. The mainnet went live in September 2020. Since its launch, the project has grown rather fast and is currently within the crypto top 30 based on market cap. The project is created to serve several purposes in the decentralized web and the […]
From time to time, we truly believe that Elon Musk really doesn’t give a f*ck. He is not only trying to become the world’s most successful entrepreneur, he would like the title of ultimate troll as well apparently. A few weeks after it was rumored that the SEC might be investigating Mr Musk over his […]
