TAG: Financial technology

The Markus Ferber affair: When lawmaking meets business

BRUSSELS — Is it kosher to aim to make more than €1 million from a consulting scheme in which a powerful German politician advises banks on financial rules he helped write into EU law? That was exactly the plan of Michael Heijmeijer, a Dutch businessman,...

6 months ago

Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says

LONDON — A new HBO documentary identifies Canadian developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of cryptocurrency bitcoin.Cullen Hoback, the award-winning filmmaker behind the documentary, comes to the conclusion by stitching togethe...

1 week ago