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Crypto and digital currencies — nine research priorities

To avert privacy breaches, scams and environmental damage, governments and central banks need to know how best to regulate this financial frontier.
  1. Andrew Urquhart

    1. Andrew Urquhart is professor of finance and financial technology at ICMA Centre, University of Reading, Henley Business School, Reading, UK.

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  2. Brian Lucey

    1. Brian Lucey is professor of international finance and commodities at Trinity Business School, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Institute of Business Research, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and Institute for Industrial Economics, Jiangxi University of Economics and Finance, Nanchang, China.

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Money is at a crossroads. A race is on to decide who creates it, who can access it and how, who controls it, and to what degree and how it is regulated. The outcome could decide whether governments have access to all our financial data, whether criminals can easily launder vast sums unseen, and whether the benefits of finance can be extended to the billions of people globally who lack access to banks.

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Nature 604, 36-39 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00927-5

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