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Short answers to the questions people in finance type into a search engine: what MiCA regulates, how clearing works, why a stablecoin holds its value. Every answer names its sources and the rules in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Many of the supervisors these answers name are based in the financial center of Frankfurt: the ECB, the Bundesbank, EIOPA, AMLA and one of the two BaFin offices. Crypto regulation in Germany follows MiCA, with BaFin as the supervisor.
60 answers in 4 fields
Investment & Digital Assets
Capital markets, WealthTech, AI in asset management, tokenization and custody.
All 15 answers- What are capital markets?
- Primary market vs secondary market: what is the difference?
- What is a market maker?
- What is an order book?
- What is WealthTech?
- What is a robo-advisor?
- How is AI used in wealth management?
- What are digital assets?
- What is tokenization of assets?
- What are tokenized securities?
- What are tokenized funds?
- What are real world assets?
- Security tokens vs utility tokens: what is the difference?
- What is crypto custody?
- What is a bitcoin ETF?
Payments & Digital Money
Instant payments, clearing, Wero, the digital euro, stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
All 15 answers- What are instant payments?
- How do cross-border payments work?
- Clearing vs settlement: how do they differ?
- What is a clearing house?
- What is Wero?
- What is the digital euro?
- What is a CBDC?
- Stablecoin vs CBDC: what is the difference?
- What are stablecoins?
- What are stablecoins backed by?
- What are stablecoins used for?
- What are stablecoin issuers?
- What are tokenized deposits?
- Tokenized deposits vs stablecoins: what is the difference?
- What is tokenization in payments?
Risk & Compliance
Credit and liquidity risk, Basel III, KYC and AML, DORA, MiCA and the EU AI Act.
All 15 answers- What is credit risk?
- Market risk vs credit risk: what is the difference?
- What is liquidity risk?
- Liquidity vs solvency: what is the difference?
- What is counterparty risk?
- What is collateral?
- What are Basel III requirements?
- What is compliance in banking?
- KYC vs AML: what is the difference?
- What is MiFID II in simple terms?
- What is regtech?
- What is DORA regulation?
- What is MiCA regulation?
- What is the travel rule?
- What does the EU AI Act regulate?
DeFi
Bitcoin, smart contracts, oracles, liquidity pools, staking, wallets and AI in trading.
All 15 answers- What is AI in finance?
- What is AI in trading?
- What is bitcoin?
- What is decentralized finance?
- DeFi vs CeFi vs TradFi: how do they differ?
- What is a blockchain oracle?
- How do smart contracts work?
- What is a liquidity pool?
- What is staking?
- Yield farming vs staking: how do they differ?
- What is a layer 2 blockchain?
- DEX vs CEX: what is the difference?
- What is a crypto wallet?
- What is a private key vs a seed phrase?
- What is a hardware wallet?
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