The 2019 edition of Sibos, an annual banking and financial conference organized by SWIFT, saw Chairman Yawar Shah talk about crypto-assets and how they are changing the payments industry. SWIFT is one of the most widely-used systems in the financial industry, with over 11,000 connected institutions operating in over 200 different countries and territories across […]
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Can we ever get enough of Crypto Mom and SEC Commissioner, Hester Pierce? Probably not. As one of the most crypto-vocal lawyers in the commission, Pierce is once again calling for swift formation and implementation of regulation to govern the cryptocurrency industry.
Iran’s Assistant Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply, Saeed Zarandi, said that Trump’s administration is working to block bitcoin mining in the country, according to local news outlet Fars.
It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
Команда SWIFT опубликовала исследование, в котором представлено новое понимание эволюционирующей природы киберугроз, с которыми сталкивается мировое финансовое сообщество. Our new #cybersecurity report focuses on the increasingly sophisticated threats facing the global financial community.
SWIFT созвала рабочую группу экспертов по международным платежам целью которой станет формирование рекомендаций, применимых в рыночной практике для полного перехода на предназначенный для трансграничных платежей стандарт ISO 20022.
The World Bank published a blog addressing the need for a faster, innovative, and upgraded remittance system, suggesting that industry incumbents were working on a solution for cross-border payments.
Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
Cross-border payments leader Swift has inked a partnership with blockchain-based startup R3 to integrate the latter’s trade finance platform to its latest payments standards framework GPI, reports CNBC on January 30, 2019.
The European fintech forum coming up in Paris is an event that calls for all the participation of all the players in the global fintech industry. This event is scheduled to take place on the 29th and 30th of January 2019, giant payment processing companies like Ripple and SWIFT are expected to be there.
The power struggle for supremacy between Ripple and SWIFT in the payments industry is in a high trail. In trying to point out why Ripple is superior to SWIFT, the Sales Director of Ripple, Ross D’Arcy says the company (swift) does not put transaction speed as its priority and can influence the output of transactions, unlike […]
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The month of November has been very eventful, probably the most eventful in the history of cryptocurrency. The market got a really hard blow in a rather incredible bear market which is possibly the worst in a single month for the industry.
Around 80 business leaders representing the cryptocurrency industry and Wall Street met with U. S. lawmakers on Sep 25, 2018, to pass on an important message: Make way for regulatory clarity on crypto and ICOs without further delay or watch innovation ditching the U.
Iran’s defiance of the US sanctions and its entry into alternative financial systems is creating inroads for cryptocurrencies. After being sidelined from the Belgium-based global banking and finance system SWIFT, the country is left with few options to handle payments and remittances internationally.
Jur creates a new dimension of trust in business relationships based on easy-to-create, effective Smart Legal Agreements backed up by a near-zero cost, swift, and fair decentralized dispute resolution system enforced on the blockchain.
Binance has become synonymous with the crypto exchange industry. It has become almost impossible to mention the industry without paying homage to the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume.
There are over 600 million Africans living
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of solar projects on the drawing board.
Ripple, the leader in blockchain-backed remittance services showed no interest in its rival Swift’s improved global payments innovation [gpi] service and passed it as a mere marginal improvement based on an outdated architecture.
SWIFT — the decades old financial messaging service relied on by banks around the world — no longer has the monopoly on global banking it once did. Blockchain has quickly emerged to challenge SWIFT’s dominance on the industry.
Digitization, disruption, blockchain, and frictionless payments. It’s amazing how prominent figures from the financial elite can provide a pretty detailed description of decentralized money without uttering “bitcoin” or “crypto.