- Ben Poole
- Editorial Team, Treasury Management International (TMI)
Corporates have started putting Bitcoin on the balance sheet. Central banks are pursuing their own digital currencies. The rise of cryptocurrencies is happening at a startling pace and will have a variety of impacts. Now is the time for treasurers to educate themselves and their businesses about the complex changes ahead, something explored in a recent TMI and Diginex webinar.
With companies such as MicroStrategy making headlines this year by investing significant amounts of corporate cash in to Bitcoin, and TMI accepting payment in Bitcoin this April, cryptocurrencies are now firmly on the treasury agenda. It’s not just Bitcoin either, with the overall market cap of crypto currently sitting at nearly US$2tr., we are seeing significant interest in the ecosystem as a whole.
Elsewhere, central banks are keenly investigating whether they can, or indeed should, digitise their money with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Stablecoins, meanwhile, present a supposedly non-volatile form of cryptocurrency. The crypto space, whilst complex, is growing at an exponential rate and is becoming increasingly important for corporate treasurers to understand.
