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New industry collaboration to study cryptocurrencies and other digital assets

01 Mar 2022

Multi-year Cambridge Digital Assets Programme launched with 16 institutional research collaborators to create open-access datasets and tools to...

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Cambridge launches Regulatory Genome Project

21 Dec 2020

̽»¨Ö±²¥project will use machine learning to sequence the world’s regulatory text and create an open-source repository of machine-readable regulatory...

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Study highlights growing significance of cryptocurrencies

04 May 2017

More than 3 million people (three times previous estimates) are estimated to be actively using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, finds the first global...

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UK online alternative finance market grows to £3.2 billion in 2015

17 Feb 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥UK online alternative finance sector grew 84% in 2015, facilitating £3.2 billion in investments, loans and donations, according to a new report...

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European alternative finance market could top €7 billion in 2015

23 Feb 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥European alternative finance market - which includes crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and invoice trading - reached €3 billion last year and...

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Alternative finance market set to double in 2015

07 Nov 2014

̽»¨Ö±²¥UK’s alternative finance market – which includes crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and invoice trading – is set to reach nearly £2 billion by...

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