Bitcoin Institutional Adoption: A Money20/20 Perspective
The Money20/20 was a display of the ever-growing fervor around bitcoin among traditional financial institutions.If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. That's the recent acquiescent stance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) after the chairman of the board of directors, Jelena McWilliams, expressed a few weeks ago, "If we don't bring this activity [Bitcoin] inside the banks, it is going to develop outside of the banks. ... The federal regulators won't be able to regulate it.” We are at an inflection point for when the thousands of banks holding trillions of dollars of deposits....
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We’re now about 80 days from Money20/20, the industry’s primetime conference and trade show. Spaces are filling up and time is running out so we wanted to make one last call for companies interested in sponsoring or exhibiting. With 10,000+ attendees, including more than 1,000+ CEOs, from 3,000+ companies and 75 countries, expected at our 2015 U.S. event, Money20/20 is critical to realizing the vision of disruptive ways in which consumers and businesses manage, spend and borrow money.