Swedish FinTech firm appoints former Nordea Head of Trade Finance as CEO

Enigio, a Stockholm-based deep-tech company, has appointed Patrik Zekkar, the former Head of Trade Finance at Nordic bank Nordea, as its new CEO. The company disclosed this news through a blog post earlier today, noting Zekkar’s role will involve heading and expanding its business.

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Why this CEO argues against KYC norms for Bitcoin

CEO and Founder of Shapeshift, Erik Voorhees thinks that the markets are in a process of "transformation" from analog, fiat, and bank-based finance into decentralized, digital, crypto-based finance.

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Shopify CEO “dabbs” with Ethereum DeFi, will they integrate it?

Via his Twitter handle, the CEO of subscription-based retail platform Shopify Tobi Lutke revealed that he has started “dabbling” with Ethereum. Specifically, Lutke stated that he has explored the decentralized finance sector and smart contracts on Ethereum for the purpose: Mainly to understand how ERC20 works better.

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Shopify CEO Asks Twitter For Advice on Firm’s DeFi Role

Consulting DeFi Twitter Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke has taken to Twitter to consult the decentralized finance (DeFi) community on Shopify’s potential role in the space. In the tweet, Lutke asked what commerce-related opportunities for the DeFi space the decentralized finance community is most excited about, as well as requested suggestions for Shopify’s role itself.

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Shopify Is “Spiritually Aligned With Decentralizing Opportunity,” Says CEO As He “Dabbles” Into Ethereum & DeFi

The latest person to get an interest in decentralized finance (DeFi) is the chief executive officer of the e-commerce company Shopify, which has more than 1 million users. “Hey DeFi Twitter. What are the commerce-related opportunities that you are most excited about? What role do you want Shopify to play?” tweeted Tobi Lutke on Saturday.

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MicroStrategy’s Saylor Doesn’t Seem To Be A Fan Of PayPal’s Bitcoin Payment system

American entrepreneur and CEO of MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor, has vetoed the recent crypto payment method introduced by PayPal, highlighting major blemishes in the background. Taking to Twitter, the business executive and co-founder of America-based establishment MicroStrategy suggested a more favorable approach to finance holdings and payment options devoid of the apparent shortcomings in PayPal’s method; […]

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Kraken Boss Expects Crypto Firms to Replace Banks Within The Decade

Jesse Powell, the Kraken CEO, said crypto companies pose a real threat to traditional finance. While some legacy businesses are making moves into the crypto space, Powell said those who stay sidelined would be replaced.

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Will Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon buy Bitcoin at $250k? Pompliano strongly believes so

Jamie Dimon, Chairman & CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and Warren Buffett, an American investor, and business tycoon are two Billionaires whose convictions about Bitcoin are largely bearish. The two men, whose knowledge of finance has contributed greatly to their wealth, have asserted that Bitcoin is not poised to remain in use for the long term. […]

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Reef Finance responds to Alameda allegations and refutes events

The CEO of Reef Finance, Denko Mancheski responded to the recent events involving Alameda Research (AR). The post Reef Finance responds to Alameda allegations and refutes events appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Alameda’s Beef with Reef Finance, A Case of “Trust” and “Misunderstanding”

This week, besides the on-chain war over who is responsible for the movement of 18,969 BTC on the Gemini crypto exchange, the market saw another drama unfold when Alameda Research, a trading firm by Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of popular crypto exchange FTX, said they do not affiliate with or endorse REEF.

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DeFi-проект Reef Finance на базе Polkadot привлек $20 млн

Венчурная фирма Alameda Research приобрела в ходе раунда финансирования токены проекта Reef Finance на $20 млн. «Alameda — наш крупнейший инвестор», — подчеркнул CEO Reef Finance Денко Манчевски.

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Ripple Executives Push Back Against Subpoenas for Personal Finance Records

Former-CEO Larsen, as well as current Ripple CEO Garlinghouse asked a judge to block the subpoenas on March 10. The SEC sent subpoenas to six banks, requesting eight years’ worth of information.

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BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes returns with calls for a boycott of legacy finance

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes has called on all legacy traders to “opt-out” of legacy trading platforms and embrace the “Crypto Capital Markets.”

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ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees on Bitcoin’s future and Peter Schiff’s big gold mistake

Bitcoin’s rise in 2020 was marked by institutions purchasing the asset as a hedge against global inflation, a bleak economic outlook, and an overall low-yield environment in the traditional finance market.

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New Bitcoin Fork, BTCU, led by Eric Ma (the CEO) has successfully launched its Mainnet

The BTCU team has officially announced its Mainnet. The launch comes after more than a year of actively perfecting the blockchain. In the statement released, the team which comprises experienced professionals in the digital finance sphere expressed its gratitude to all parties who made the Mainnet a success, including the BTCU community “The launch marksRead More

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Крупные игроки с Уолл-стрит поддержали запуск нового криптофонда

Миллиардер Пол Тюдор Джонс, бывшая CEO PepsiCo Индра Нуйи и рэпер Джеймс Тодд Смит, известный под псевдонимом LL Cool J, стали инвесторами нового криптовалютного фонда, сообщает Yahoo! Finance.

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Elon Musk: Bitcoin On “The Verge” Of Breaking Into Traditional Finance

Elon Musk believes that Bitcoin is on the verge of breaking into the legacy financial system. Musk, who is the CEO of electric vehicle giant Tesla, stated in a recent interview that he sees more mainstream financial services integrating Bitcoin.

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‘DeFi is really eating the world of finance,’ says Kraken CEO

The emergence of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum made it obvious how much traditional markets lack transparency and are stacked against the “little guy,” Jesse Powell, CEO of crypto exchange Kraken, told Yahoo! Finance in an interview published on Friday.

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Stably CEO Kory Hoang explains how first-timers should buy Bitcoin (and where stablecoins are headed)

2020 was the year of decentralized finance.

The post Stably CEO Kory Hoang explains how first-timers should buy Bitcoin (and where stablecoins are headed) appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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People Need 'Enough Time' to Fully Understand Bitcoin: Digital Finance Group Chairman

James Wo, the CEO of Digital Finance Group, believes that Bitcoin has the potential to match the market cap of gold once mainstream adoption kicks in

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Nexo Finance CEO Talks Crypto Lending On Recent Podcast Interview

During a recent interview by the Cryptotesters podcast , the Nexo CEO, Antoni Trenchev provided a lot of insight on the Nexo crypto lending platform. Antoni talked about product offering, digitized gold, potential tax benefits, and more.

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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says Crypto Space Should Expand Beyond Finance

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin criticizes the Bitcoin-centric mentality of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

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Arthur Hayes: More Prominent Investors Could Catch the Bitcoin Bug as BTC Thrashes Inflation

Despite the world’s turmoil, BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes still dedicates time to study the market. While listening to finance gurus, he writes down important thoughts to share. One biggest insight is that negative interest rates could destroy the banking system.

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TRON’s Justin Sun Unveils DeFi Platform JUST Mainnet

Decentralized web blockchain project TRON (TRX) CEO, Justin Sun, on April 4, 2020, tweeted that Djed, the test of the project’s stablecoin platform has successfully completed testing. Enter Project JUST In a fresh announcement, TRON founder Justin Sun stated that he had rebranded TRON’s newly launched decentralized finance (DeFi) project Djed to JUST to markRead MoreRead More.

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Tron (TRX) CEO Announces Launch of Djed DeFi Ecosystem and Stablecoin

Tron (TRX) CEO Justin Sun has announced the launch of a new U. S. dollar-backed stablecoin project called “Djed” which some pundits say bears a lot of similarities with the MakerDAO decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

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China’s Changing Perception of Bitcoin: Bitkan CEO Shares Insights After 7 Years in Crypto Industry

Since the advent of bitcoin in 2009, cryptocurrencies have gone from being a niche topic for tech nerds to ubiquitously recognized — if not always understood — staples of modern finance.

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CryptoCompare CEO: sell-off is a result of the coronavirus pandemic

Anna Tutova: What is your background? How did you get into blockchain industry?  Charles Hayter, Founder&CEO CryptoCompare: I worked in finance as an analyst covering multiple sectors from solar through to oil and gas and quants.

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DeFi Likened to the Internet in 1997 by Digital Payments CEO

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.

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Flash Loans - Mapping the esoteric landscape of DeFi

Andy talks with self-described ‘flash loans maximalist’ Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of the Aave Protocol. We explore the exotic and esoteric landscape of Decentralized Finance. Against the backdrop of the recent DeFi exploits, we discuss the new flash loan innovation that allows traders to take out a loan without collateral by paying back the loan in the same smart contract transaction.

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CoinDCX CEO pens open letter to India’s Finance Minister on crypto potential

Ahead of the 2020 Union Budget of India, arguably the most challenging of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government—Sumit Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of CoinDCX, India’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, and liquidity aggregator, has written an open letter to the Finance Minister of India, Nirmala Sitharaman, on the potential of India’s cryptocurrency sector to invigorate the […] CryptoNinjas: CoinDCX CEO pens open letter to India’s Finance Minister on crypto potential

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Davos 2020: Refinitiv Establishes Alliance to Monitor Sustainable Finance

Coinspeaker Davos 2020: Refinitiv Establishes Alliance to Monitor Sustainable FinanceRefinitiv CEO David Craig had pushed some insights at the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos, opening a road to wider usage of investment analysis and data gathering.

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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Grew To $668 Million In 2019, How Will Taxes Be Calculated?

2019’s decentralized finance (DeFi) boom that has led to more than $785 million being locked in crypto assets is giving accountants serious headaches. Antoine Scalie, the CEO of accounting startup Cryptio says complex assets and transactions make it for the accounting to be more difficult.

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Why China Is Banning Crypto but Is Bullish on Blockchain

"The bandit needs to be wiped out before the regular army gets in," says Flex Yang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, speaking of China's uncertain crypto regulations.

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Why China Is Banning Crypto But Is Bullish on Blockchain

"The bandit needs to be wiped out before the regular army gets in," says Flex Yang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, speaking of China's uncertain crypto regulations.

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Ripple CEO Claims Half of Top 20 Banks Will Own Crypto in 2020; Is This Feasible?

The finance industry as a whole has been hesitant to embrace or adopt crypto in any forms, with many major figures within the industry claiming that Bitcoin and other digital assets are simply speculation tools that investors use to try to turn quick profits, rather than revolutionary technologies that could help usher in a new.

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Глава Ripple: после MoneyGram мы собираемся инвестировать во множество компаний

В разговоре с Yahoo Finance CEO Ripple Брэд Гарлингхаус сказал, что его компания планирует заключить множество инвестиционных контрактов и сделок по приобретению сторонних фирм после вложения средств в систему денежных переводов MoneyGram.

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Ripple “Eyeing” Multiple Investment & Acquisitions: Reveals CEO Brad Garlinghouse

Ripple is working on “multiple” investments and acquisitions after the $30 million investment in MoneyGram, reported Yahoo Finance. “We’re in a very strong position, our business is growing strongly, we have a strong balance sheet, and I intend to press our advantage,” Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple revealed. Garlinghouse told the publication that active […]

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Bitcoin Now the World’s Eleventh Largest Money Supply

Bitcoin has grown exponentially over its decade long existence. So much so that it is now the eleventh largest form of finance on the planet, larger than currencies of many powerful nations. Bitcoin Banking Without a CEO With a market capitalization of just over $200 billion, Bitcoin is now larger than the money supply of.

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BiKi.com Celebrates First Anniversary and Advocates Blockchain Empowerment For All

7th August, Singapore, Singapore – Fast-growing exchange BiKi. com celebrated the one-year anniversary of its launch with an appreciation dinner themed “All for Partners” for its ecosystem of partners, investors and community supporters.

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A ban may not stop people from trading if market’s bullish, claims CEO of Indian cryptocurrency exchange

India’s crypto-community breathed a sigh of relief when India’s Minister of State for Finance, Anurag Singh Thakur, said that cryptocurrencies were not prohibited in India, in response to a question in India’s parliament.

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Ripple CEO Explains Why Facebook’s Approach to Libra Is Just “Silicon’s Valley Arrogance”

Coinspeaker Ripple CEO Explains Why Facebook’s Approach to Libra Is Just “Silicon’s Valley Arrogance”Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO joined Squawk Alley on CNBC to share his opinion on Facebook's coin Libra coin and to explain why it can pose high risks for the world of finance.

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Roubini vs Hayes: A Breakdown of the Tangle in Taipei

BitMEX has finally released the unedited video of its CEO, Arthur Hayes, debating noted economist, Nouriel Roubini, at the Asia Blockchain Summit earlier this month. The 53-minute long discussion ventured into uncomfortable territories of both the bitcoin and mainstream finance.

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World’s First Digital Currency Created at the Royal Mint

15th July 2019, London, UK – A new era of finance has arrived, as this week temtum used the Royal Mint to produce the next generation of currency in the form of cryptocurrency, temtum (TEM). In a world first, Founder and CEO of digital currency temtum, Richard Dennis, and a private security adviser worked within […] The post World’s First Digital Currency Created at the Royal Mint appeared first on NullTX.

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World’s First Digital Currency Created at the Royal Mint

Cryptocurrency temtum minted and stored in the Royal Mint vault ahead of global launch with CoinAll on 17th July A new era of finance has arrived, as this week temtum used the Royal Mint to produce the next generation of currency in the form of cryptocurrency, temtum [TEM].

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Bitcoin’s parabolic move will be boosted by ‘Central Bank money printing,’ claims BitMEX CEO

When the cat is away, the mice come out to play. As the global economy is muddled with concerns surrounding trade wars, interest rate movements, and global governance dilemmas, the cryptocurrency world is enjoying a parabolic move.

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Anthony Pompliano says ‘Bitcoin is smarter than politicians’ as push for better regulations continues

The last few weeks had elevated Bitcoin to new heights in terms of popularity as a lot of prominent members in the cryptocurrency space as well as mainstream finance talked about its price and market cap hike.

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Regulators must make sure Facebook lives up to Libra’s structure, says Wall Street veteran

Michael Casey, CEO of Streambed Media and former Wall Street Journal reporter, with his expertise in covering global finance and economic affairs, spoke about Facebook’s Libra and why it incurred a negative response from the community upon its launch.

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Trading with Kyrrex: Benefits and Exclusive Features for the Crypto Community

The world of crypto has been built by amateurs — people dreaming big but knowing little about finance. The lack of a professional approach has led to serious flaws in trading platforms and blind spots in exchange markets.

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Blockchains.com Founder Buys Community Bank to Finance Crypto Dreams

Blockchains CEO Jeffrey Berns hopes the bank will fund not only his vision, but the blockchain industry's.

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