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The rise of cryptocurrencies has been meteoric. In the past decade, we’ve seen Bitcoin and other digital assets go from being a niche interest to a global phenomenon. But what does this mean for developing economies? Ways crypto can help financial inclusion In many ways, crypto is the perfect tool for financial inclusion. For starters, […]
2022-10-5 13:56 | |
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The ex Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief discusses regulation, digital dollars and financial inclusion. This article is part of CoinDesk's Payments Week.
2022-4-30 23:29 | |
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Coinspeaker China’s Digital Currency and Libra to Bring Significant Benefits for Financial Inclusion and Blockchain TechBoth Facebook and the People’s Bank of China, have announced their digital currencies and are looking to release them to the public as soon possible.
2019-9-12 16:22 | |
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Coinspeaker Accion Venture Labs Secures $33 Million in Funding for Inclusive Fintech StartupsAccion Venture Labs, the seed-investment arm of Accion International, has announced additional funding which will allow the firm to extend its support to startups focused on financial inclusion.
2019-9-4 14:20 | |
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Currently employed methods used by traditional financial system make it difficult for the system to maintain records effectively and efficiently. In light of the same, OKEx aims to simplify the entire process by integrating the platform with blockchain technology.
2019-8-29 21:30 | |
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A blockchain-based identity system to improve financial inclusion is being developed for Argentina’s capital
2019-8-26 12:06 | |
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A new age of banking is imminent. Legacy models will be forced to follow suit or become obsolete in the eyes of value holders worldwide, as new bitcoin and crypto services take over, seeking to implement blockchain systems with an eye on convenience and financial inclusion.
2019-8-23 12:58 | |
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Coinspeaker Walmart Files Patent to Create its Own Libra-Like StablecoinWalmart has filed with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, an application to create its own Libra-like digital currency.
2019-8-3 12:56 | |
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“Coinbase can’t do it alone, there needs to be thousands of companies out there," said Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
2019-8-2 04:00 | |
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Sen. Brian Schatz (D.-HI) questioned the claim that blockchain spurs financial inclusion at Tuesday's Banking Committee hearing.
2019-7-30 19:55 | |
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The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) yesterday announced the creation of a new division for licensing crypto-businesses. The ‘Research and Innovation’ Division will supervise and license virtual currencies, address financial inclusion through technology, protect consumer data rights, and encourage innovation in the financial services marketplace.
2019-7-24 19:00 | |
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First scalable decentralized social security network Project Introduction Asure Network is a layer 2 scaling network that enables fast, easy and secure transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized smart contract.
2019-7-18 11:03 | |
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Huobi Global, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is teaming up with Nervos to develop a public blockchain focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) and improving the state of global financial inclusions, according to a press release from July 1, 2019.
2019-7-2 19:42 | |
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Tokoin is a platform that establishes digital business identity and reputation of MSME as acceptable credibility scoring for suppliers and financial institutions. Tokoin aims to: -Build a digital business identity for MSME that represents a valid business reputation -Build a digital ledger for MSME that records real time transaction data and provide opportunities to distribute the data to the relevant parties in the ecosystem, hence monetizing their data.
2019-7-1 07:03 | |
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At the moment everyone is talking about Libra and what Facebook has to offer to the crypto market and the financial world. However, Nik Milanovic, a fintech and financial inclusion enthusiast, considers that it is time to start thinking which is the role that money plays in the current world. Will Money Eventually Evolve? In […]
2019-6-23 00:30 | |
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From PayPal to Coinbase and now Standard Chartered, the Facebook cryptocurrency project aims to have a host of heads working towards Project Libra. With an aim to revolutionize the global payments industry, on the back of the cryptocurrency sector, regulation is firmly in sight.
2019-6-15 15:00 | |
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The potential of blockchain and other types of distributed ledgers have been touted as the biggest financial innovation in recent years. Immutability, transparency, and efficiency are key factors for creating an inclusive financial system.
2019-6-8 09:30 | |
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Ripple-backed InstaReM, the cross-border payments company, has been making headlines consistently. Just a couple of months back, its CEO Prajit Nanu had announced plans of advancing financial inclusion by improving remittance methods.
2019-5-23 17:30 | |
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has announced that the company is working on introducing its debit card to customers in the U. S. Armstrong’s announcement came in a live AMA session on YouTube on May 16, 2019, during which he fielded questions and touched on various topics such as community trust ratings for altcoins and fraud prevention.
2019-5-18 19:15 | |
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Many prominent faces in the crypto-community have been advocating changes in US law and regulations for the effective inclusion of cryptocurrencies in the financial realm. However, in yet another blow to the crypto-world, regulatory uncertainty in the US market has led to the delisting of nine cryptocurrencies from the leading exchange, Poloniex.
2019-5-17 13:30 | |
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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.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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With 139 million clients and a credit portfolio of USD 114 billion in 2017, microfinance has reaffirmed its position as a key tool in the financial inclusion of marginalized populations. The global microfinance market is anticipated to witness steady growth over the forecast period (2017 to 2025).
2019-5-6 15:50 | |
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XE.com, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, informed that it could be listing XRP in the future. XE is known in the market as an online foreign exchange tool and services company. It offers an online currency converter application that offers exchange rate information and other services as well. XE.com Could Add XRP Coverage The online […]
2019-5-3 18:39 | |
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The International Monetary Fund warns that global growth is slowing to its lowest rate since the financial crisis. But while it urges financial inclusion, don’t expect the IMF to embrace Bitcoin anytime soon.
2019-4-11 04:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas It was announced earlier this month that the Central bank governors of Thailand and Myanmar endorsed the “Krungthai and Shwe Remittance“ project, powered by blockchain based payment company Everex.
2019-4-9 21:31 | |
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Some of the most promising markets for cryptocurrency are in developing nations, where large populations have no access to financial networks. The latest effort to increase inclusion is from DoshEx and Pundi X, which have joined forces to bring crypto retail to South Africa.
2019-4-6 23:08 | |
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InstaReM’s CEO, Prajit Nanu, spoke to Ripple’s Asheesh Birla about advancing financial inclusion worldwide and how he plans to achieve it. Ripple-backed InstaReM is a digital cross-border money transfer service provider that entered the European market in 2018.
2019-4-4 15:30 | |
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Based in Singapore with customers in 35 countries that pay into 50+ countries, InstaReM is at the forefront of fintech innovation in Southeast Asia. The company’s co-founder and CEO Prajit Nanu chatted with me during a recent visit to Ripple HQ in San Francisco and shared valuable insights into financial inclusion efforts in the region, … Continued The post Talking Payments Innovation in Southeast Asia with InstaReM’s Prajit Nanu appeared first on Ripple.
2019-4-4 02:52 | |
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The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities.
2019-3-28 18:00 | |
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Popular international payments company Western Union has entered into a partnership with Thunes, a cross-border payments fintech startup, reports Finextra, March 21, 2019. The newly forged alliance allows Western Union customers to transfer funds directly into the recipient’s mobile wallet around the world.
2019-3-25 11:00 | |
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Global Property Register -Where Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Meet. Global Property Register - the world’s FIRST and ONLY universal real estate register! Short for GPR, Global Property Register is the first of its kind - a global register and property exchange covering both developed and developing countries alike.
2019-3-16 20:33 | |
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Everex.io describes itself as a “financial inclusion blockchain remittance company.” The company’s services are targeted particularly to the 3.5 billion
2019-2-25 08:25 | |
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The UnionBank of the Philippines, one of the leading financial institutions in the country, has launched a two-way bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM), according to a story in local media outlet Philstar.
2019-2-12 00:10 | |
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When they launched the world’s first mobile cryptocurrency app in March 2018, the developers at Electroneum (ETN) saw millions of users rushing for the download button in a bid to get their hands on a tool which has revolutionised online transactions.
2019-2-7 14:48 | |
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2019-2-3 20:57 | |
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In the same way all economic movements have done throughout history, blockchain finance challenges our traditional conceptions of ‘value,’ and, in turn, our ideas about identity and freedom. The new digital economy is now being built by a worldwide community who share common goals of decentralization, transparency, and financial inclusion.
2019-1-19 19:20 | |
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If blockchain is to be part of our financial and governance future, the development process must represent a diverse population, says Alexis Gauba.
2019-1-13 15:59 | |
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It seems as if the Federal Reserve really understands the core values of Bitcoin and that launching a national cryptocurrency is pointless. Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde spoke out about the benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) this November.
2018-12-29 23:00 | |
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OmiseGo (OMG) is an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token that is intended to facilitate the development of payment gateways and decentralized exchange platforms (or DEXs). The project strives for financial inclusion, and the team promotes the coin with the slogan “unbank the banked.
2018-12-18 20:58 | |
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As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.
2018-12-6 18:13 | |
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Global leaders walked away from the latest G20 Summit with a rough game plan for crypto regulation. This year’s G20 Summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 30 to December 1.
2018-12-4 23:44 | |
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Blockchain Payroll Platform WorkChain. io has partnered with tokenization platform STASIS to enable euro-backed crypto paychecks for its European Union (EU) users with the EURS stablecoin.
2018-12-1 21:00 | |
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CoinSpeaker Blockchain Company Develops ‘First’ Crypto Wallet with Built-in Decentralized Exchange To drive the financial inclusion and further adoption of the blockchain in finances, the Sovereign Wallet is building a mobile wallet with “banking grade” security and proprietary stablecoin, which is to be equipped with a decentralized exchange - M.
2018-11-22 09:00 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-20 04:39 | |
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CoinSpeaker IMF Head Christine Lagarde Calls For Central Banks Digital Currencies IMF’s Managing Director called for central banks digital currencies, stating that they could provide financial inclusion, security, and consumer protection, which can not be offered by the private sector.
2018-11-15 11:37 | |
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chair Christine Lagarde has called for central banks to consider the possibility of issuing Central Banks Digital Currencies (CBDC), describing them as potential tools of financial inclusion and consumer protection.
2018-11-15 05:00 | |
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With contributing reporting from Jimmy Aki. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), suggested a new course of action for central banks around the world: turn their fiat currencies digital.
2018-11-15 22:38 | |
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Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said central banks throughout the world should consider issuing digital currency to make transactions more secure.
2018-11-14 19:10 | |
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The U.S. Treasury Department has a new strategy for financial inclusion to help people get access to the financial system, but the 35-page report references cryptocurrency only once – to tout Treasury's work on flagging the industry's hazards.
A new Bank of America (BOA) research study has found that both central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and private digital currencies hold “a lot of potential” for increasing financial inclusion in developing countries.
The philanthropist billionaire Bill Gates has swung from being a Bitcoin bear to staying neutral just when the BTC price is defying gravity, recently racing above $52.5k. Bill Gates now Neutral on Bitcoin, BTC/USD Firming above $50k Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Feb 18, the billionaire made it clear that he never owns Bitcoin.Read More
OKEx’s Lennix Lai argued that a digital, decentralized financial system underpinned by blockchain and crypto can be of mutual benefit to institutions and the unbanked
Anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer practices have cost many billions more than all ICO scams put together – yet, what they have produced?
Technology in its nascent stage is usually restricted to the confines of enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those actively involved in its development. For Bitcoin and blockchain technology, however, the case is different — as both form a topical issue in many a discourse.