2020-10-23 00:35 |
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The move comes as Ant, a global leader in digital payments, is readying what could be an offering worth up to a record $35 billion.
2020-10-15 22:22 | |
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Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square has been a first-mover when it comes to bitcoin. Not only did Square enable bitcoin payments on its Cash App, but the company recently announced that it was purchasing $50 million worth of BTC for its balance sheet.
2020-10-11 17:02 | |
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As other nations are rushing to launch central bank backed digital currency dubbed CBDC, Australia is not joining the bandwagon. As per the Australian local news platforms, the Reserve Bank of Australia recent payments paper indicates that the bank is taking a cautious stand when it comes to CBDCs and privately issued stablecoins.
2020-9-18 00:59 | |
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The aptly named electronic payments system has announced that a reboot of their service will not include access to cryptocurrencies. This comes after accusations of money laundering led to a seven-month freezing of customer accounts.
2020-9-15 17:44 | |
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If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us one thing about payments, it’s that speed, reliability and on-demand access to money is critically important in a world powered by digital interaction. Our world may be forever changed, but with that change comes the potential to optimize better ways of doing day-to-day life tasks—payments included.
2020-9-3 21:00 | |
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If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us one thing about payments, it’s that speed, reliability and on-demand access to money is critically important in a world powered by digital interaction. Our world may be forever changed, but with that change comes the potential to optimize better ways of doing day-to-day life tasks—payments included.
2020-9-25 21:00 | |
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It was announced today that payments platform Paysafe has become the latest business to choose Kraken as a crypto asset liquidity provider. The move comes in advance of Paysafe’s launch of its own crypto buy and sell services through its digital wallets Skrill and Neteller, which provide convenient and simple payment solutions to millions of clients across the globe, […] CryptoNinjas » Paysafe selects Kraken’s cryptocurrency liquidity for new buy/sell services
2020-7-29 16:38 | |
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Thailand's Central Bank (BoT) has announced that it will roll out a prototype for digital currency payments within the country's business ecosystems. The initiative will be based on an ongoing CBDC project dubbed ‘Inthanon, ‘ which kicked off two years ago in collaboration with Thai's leading financial institutions.
2020-6-20 19:54 | |
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Another big partnership is in the works for CoinPayments. One of the biggest crypto payment processors is partnering Shopify to bring Bitcoin payments to store owners. When it comes to accepting cryptocurrency payments, a few different options are available.
2020-5-22 05:00 | |
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As part of a plan to aid the unbanked in the US, politicians are considering the use of crypto dollars and digital wallets to speed the disbursement of direct emergency funds. The move comes as massive monetary stimulus packages are proposed to save the sinking economy.
2020-3-25 18:16 | |
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Microsoft’s M12 and Pantera Capital are among investors in a $300 million Series B funding round for Bakkt. The fresh influx of capital comes as the company looks to launch its consumer payments app while announcing the option of Bakkt Cash payment for Starbucks coffee.
2020-3-17 14:00 | |
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A recent tweet is gaining buzz in the cryptocurrency community claiming that we are ‘in 1997’ when it comes to decentralized finance (DeFi). In other words, it’s still very early.
2020-3-16 18:10 | |
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The United States' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a statement this Thursday, in which it states that the actor – Steven Seagal – failed to disclose payments he received for promoting Bitcoiin2Gen’s (B2G) token and Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in February 2018.
2020-2-28 22:24 | |
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E-commerce platform Shopify has announced that it has joined the Libra Association. This means that the online shopping firm is the latest entrant of the Facebook-led stablecoin project. The entry of Shopify into the association comes barely a month following Vodafone’s pull out with the aim of developing its solo virtual payments platform. This marks […]
2020-2-22 20:48 | |
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The third largest coin keeps gaining traction when it comes to liquidity, thanks to the global MoneyGram payments service provider that uses Ripple?s ODL
2020-1-25 15:02 | |
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Ripple is synonymous to ‘Tsunami’ when it comes to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Although most crypto businesses have made headlines for duping investors, the “frictionless payments” pioneer has taken crypto adoption to the next level.
2019-8-13 21:42 | |
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The U. S Federal Reserve seems to have taken the challenge posed by cryptocurrency when it comes to faster payments. It has just announced it will be developing a faster payment system, FedNow, that will enable much faster payment between American Banks.
2019-8-6 20:59 | |
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Bitcoin takes a lot of criticism over its ‘unsuitability’ as a payments mechanism but when it comes to low fee transfers the digital-asset is king when compared to the fees charged by traditional remittance houses.
2019-7-30 23:29 | |
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The Japanese have a way of being ahead of others when it comes to technology development. After all, Satoshi is said to be Japanese. A year ago, Mizuho Bank one of the biggest banks in Japan started working on a cross border payments system.
2019-7-22 22:49 | |
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The Japanese have a way of being ahead of others when it comes to technology development. After all, Satoshi is said to be Japanese. A year ago, Mizuho Bank one of the biggest banks in Japan started working on a cross border payments system.
2019-7-23 22:49 | |
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Japan is set to further its pioneering spirit when it comes to cryptocurrency. The Japanese government is currently developing an international cryptocurrency payments network similar to the SWIFT network currently used by banks, Reuters reports.
2019-7-18 12:45 | |
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Even after the use of credit or debit cards have become commonplace, we still haven’t mitigated the threat of credit card theft. A lost card or stolen pin can result in our savings being cleared from our accounts if we’re not quick enough to catch it.
2019-7-18 18:26 | |
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Casa’s newly launched mobile app just made it easier for cypherpunks to run their respective lightning nodes. Revolutionizing how ‘paying with crypto’ on the go really means, the new Sats app is a step from all the other similar apps, thanks to the built-in noncustodial wallet. The app, launched today, comes complete with a host […]
2019-7-3 21:56 | |
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China appears to be head and shoulders above the rest of the world when it comes to new ways of processing financial transactions. Digital payments are booming in the hybrid communist-capitalist country, so much so that facial recognition payments are already a thing: The new way to pay in China.
2019-6-30 20:35 | |
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Apparently, the decrepit SWIFT bank transfer system comes to an end. Ripple (XRP) has been shaking its foundations for several years with its RippleNet. The advantages of Ripple are obvious – cheap and fast transactions.
2019-6-13 23:53 | |
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Wirex, a cryptocurrency payments platform, has announced plans to launch a native cryptocurrency token. The British company says the token sale used to launch its cryptocurrency is all about product development and less about fundraising.
2019-6-11 23:00 | |
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What Is BLUCON? BLUCON is a blockchain-based platform that focuses on improving the retail economy by leveraging on bleeding edge technological innovations. The platform aims to convert cryptocurrency into spendable cash worldwide, through a singular card.
2019-6-4 09:30 | |
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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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By CCN: Facebook’s cryptocurrency ambitions could translate into reality as soon as next year. The BBC reports that the social media behemoth is on track to start testing its bitcoin rival – known internally as GlobalCoin – by the end of the year before its digital payments system comes online across 12 countries in the first quarter of 2020.
2019-5-24 12:29 | |
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Iceland-based debit and credit card company Valitor has been ordered to pay $9. 85 million (1. 2 billion Icelandic Krona) for illegally blocking payments to WikiLeaks in 2010, reports local media outlet The Reykjavik Grapevine, April 25, 2019.
2019-4-30 16:00 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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Ripple, the blockchain-based payment network, suffered a setback after Japan’s Resona Bank said it would no longer use MoneyTap, a consumer-centric retail payments app that uses Ripple’s enterprise blockchain technology.
2019-4-13 21:01 | |
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The Russian Federation doesn’t exactly scream friendliness when it comes to financial innovation, but appears to be making an exception for a company called Bank 131. At a time when Russia is taking away banking licenses, this fintech business is the first to receive a license in four years.
2019-4-12 02:13 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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Dash Embassy Thailand comes second after the US on the number of Dash operations conducted via the upgraded AnyPay service Data from the AnyPay POS platform for online payments demonstrates that in March this year.
2019-4-5 18:27 | |
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The financial and payment industries have seen a large amount of development and innovation in the last several years, particularly since the crypto trend erupted in mid-2017. The trend has especially picked up in Southeast Asia, which currently holds a reputation as a cradle of innovation when it comes to payments. Kapronasia's Zennon Kapron pointed […]
2019-3-30 01:38 | |
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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.
2019-3-29 09:50 | |
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It’s Monday, which means there’s a weekend’s worth of cryptocurrency and blockchain news to catch up on. Here are the headlines. 1. Despite giving up on its proprietary cryptocurrency, Citibank isn’t ready to leave the world of blockchain for good.
2019-3-25 11:51 | |
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Bitzlato is a newly launched cryptocurrency exchange platform out of Russia that enables users to have peer-to-peer crypto exchange with many other fiat payment methods. It allows trading with six different cryptocurrencies and also comes with a web version and a crypto-trading Telegram bot.
2019-3-24 01:48 | |
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JPMorgan Chase’s Ron Karpovich says there is “more partnership instead of competition” between the establishment and crypto innovators when it comes to the payments space
2019-3-20 14:30 | |
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The Venezuela government is reportedly making a move towards collecting fees on Bitcoin remittance payments in the country. This step comes as the cash-strapped Maduro administration continues to seek ways to finance itself in the wake of mounting economic restrictions.
2019-3-19 18:00 | |
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When leaked pictures of Samsung’s latest smartphone went viral, the crypto sphere lost its mind over a singular feature: a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. Samsung would quickly deny rumors that the S10 contained a baked-in hardware wallet.
2019-3-13 22:31 | |
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Canada’s tax agency is reportedly cracking down on cryptocurrency investors in the country. Multiple sources have confirmed that cryptocurrency holders have been targeted with audits by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), according to Forbes.
2019-3-7 20:14 | |
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Ripple has scored yet another point in its quest for world domination, this time in the middle east where the Bank of Dohfar has joined its platform to facilitate cross-border transactions. This comes just a few weeks after Ripple signed up the National Bank of Kuwait to its platform. The New was confirmed by Navin […]
2019-2-18 21:27 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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Lightning Network is only a few seconds slower than the best (centralized) digital payment solutions on the market such as Apple Pay, and is actually “days faster” when it comes to onboarding merchants, according to researcher JP Thor.
2019-2-8 15:00 | |
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Zodia Custody, a digital assets custody platform backed by Standard Chartered, has joined the Global Markets Alliance, an initiative by Ondo Finance aimed at promoting interoperability across the tokenized assets market.
The OCC has shifted its previously hands-off stance on crypto, allowing banks to buy and sell custody-held cryptocurrencies on behalf of customers. They are also allowed to provide crypto custody services.
The Shanghai High Court has ruled that cryptocurrencies possess “property attributes” under Chinese law, affirming their value as virtual commodities. However, the court upheld China’s strict prohibition on using crypto for commercial activities such as token issuance and speculative trading,…
Digital asset investment firm Algoz has announced a strategic collaboration with regulated market maker and top over-the-counter desk Wincent. Algoz shared details of the new partnership via a press release sent to crypto.
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill that could impact how digital assets are used within the state. House Bill 2481, also known as the Bitcoin Rights Bill, was approved with a bipartisan majority of 176 votes to…
Following an exemption from an SEC staff accounting bulletin, BNY edged closer to Bitcoin and Ethereum custody. Bloomberg reported that BNY was poised to provide crypto custodial services for spot Bitcoin (BTC) and spot Ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds on Wall…
Following an exemption from an SEC staff accounting bulletin, BNY Mellon edged closer to Bitcoin and Ethereum custody. Bloomberg reported that BNY Mellon was poised to provide crypto custodial services for spot Bitcoin (BTC) and spot Ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds…