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MARCH 17, 2017

It has been another wild ride of a week for bitcoin in the wake of the SEC ruling. At the tail end of last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled the proposed Winklevoss bitcoin ETF a no-go by nixing a proposed rule change that would have led to the fund being listed on the Bats BZX Exchange. The reason?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

When it comes to Bitcoin and other digital currencies, Morgan Stanley chief executive officer James Gorman sees potential, something with which his counterpart at JPMorgan does not agree. If banks behave badly, the government says, ‘Raise more capital.’ Speaking during a Wall Street Journal event on Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Gox bitcoin drama got a little more dramatic this week. Gox is the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that shuttered in February 2014 after a mysterious “glitch” caused $500 million worth of bitcoin to go missing. Those bitcoin – or at least most of them — have remained missing ever since. Gox bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Banks may not always be up for overhauling their operations with a largely untested, disruptive technology, but new reports suggest the threat of fraud in one area of corporate finance is encouraging financial institutions to adopt distributed ledger technology in growing volumes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Designing a CBDC that is universally accessible but that can be stored only at approved intermediaries is a technological challenge that should be investigated,” the bank concluded.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Zamna announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by LocalGlobe and Oxford Capital. Zamna, previously known as VChain Technology, uses a blockchain to safely share and verify data between airlines and travel authorities to check passenger identities. IAG is now its first commercial client.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The firm plans to put the funds to use by growing its AxCore system, which is based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), as well its smart contracting language called AxLang. (It It also plans to enhance its technology for data synchronization.) With the latest investment, the company’s fresh money has risen to $36 million.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The payments landscape is changing fast due to new disruptive technologies such as open APIs, distributed ledger technology, cloud, Apple/Samsung/…Pay, and customers’ expectations are changing for seamless and faster payments. Distributed Ledger Technology. Real-time Payments Interbank Infrastructure.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The payments landscape is changing fast due to new disruptive technologies such as open APIs, distributed ledger technology, cloud, Apple/Samsung/…Pay, and customers’ expectations are changing for seamless and faster payments. Distributed Ledger Technology. Real-time Payments Interbank Infrastructure.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Currently, the digital token is being tested inside the bank with corporate clients, unlike bitcoin , which is open source and can be accessed by anyone. Dimon called bitcoin a “ fraud ” during the apex of the crypto boom. The bank’s website says it does not have any plans to give individuals access to the coin.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

A detective superintendent said per the report, “When victims attempted to withdraw their capital, they could not.”. will roll out in September, and it is said to offer cryptocurrencies, such as stellar and bitcoin. The technology could allow for power charging payments that don’t require a person to get out his or her wallet.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

I was reminded yesterday in my digital discussion with the CEO of Forter, Michael Reitblat, that 83 percent of the fraud attacks last year were the result of botnets, besting some of the more “tried and true” tactics like account takeovers and phishing. Absurd seems to be a good word to use to describe the whole of bitcoin, too.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The latest person to come out against the popular cryptocurrency crowdfunding method is Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales, who called the capital-raising technique and “absolute scam.”. He does believe, however, that blockchain, which is the technology that makes cryptocurrencies like bitcoin possible, will be around for “some time to come.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

XRP is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market value after bitcoin and ethereum, but its architecture is different, which gave the company more than just a technological challenge. Blockchain forensics company CipherTrace indicated in an August report that cryptocurrency thefts, scams and fraud might exceed more than $4.3

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Chris Skinner

MAY 14, 2017

London has been leading the charge to be the FinTech capital of the world, but many other cities are nipping at their toes. First it was my comment that you can’t have money without government.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Ethereum , the competing digital currency to bitcoin , was dealt a blow on Tuesday (Nov. According to a news report in TechCrunch , Parity Technologies – which makes the hugely popular wallet Parity – said an issue could cause the contents of the wallets to be erased.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

Bitcoin doesn’t necessarily have the blessing of government agencies, but what about blockchain? It seems governments are a bit more open to distributed ledger technology (DLT), though that doesn’t mean blockchain companies get a free pass with regulators. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton spoke Monday (Jan. Sullivan last year.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Treasury official Sigal Mandelker, who serves as undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said cryptocurrencies that operate anywhere in the United States will have to comply with regulations that target fraud. FINMA’S Take.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Blockchain companies raised more venture capital and private equity funding in H1’21 than any full year in history. For example, US-based Digital Asset offers Daml — an application platform for organizations to build full-stack, distributed applications for distributed ledger technology (DLT), blockchain, or internal databases.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

According to a report in Forbes , the initiatives, which is being funded via crowdfunding, has attracted equal to 3,000 bitcoin of investments so far, with the crowdfunding raise set to end in February. million in venture capital funding by AXL Strategic Partners. Backers of the initiative include Edway Group Ltd., ChronoBank.io

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

ContaAzul provides an enterprise and dashboard management platform, and has raised $19M with participation from Monashees Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Tiger Global Management, among others. Anti-Fraud : Companies offering payment fraud solutions. 500 Startups, Kaszek Ventures, Lead Edge Capital. Real Estate.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In Latin America two chilean start-ups were the winners: Destacame.cl , aiming to financial inclusion by creating a credit scoring based on utility payments; and Bitnexo which enables fast, easy and low cost transfers between Asia and Latin America, using Bitcoin. These seem to be the areas of major investment for the last two years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

Migrating would save financial institutions from building their own connections and would create access to new technologies and computing developments, Parker said — which is important since many of them are running on platforms that are 50 years old. Emailage stopped almost twice as much potential fraud in 2017 as in the previous year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

In addition, there have been numerous incidents of fraud that have kept some retail investors away. However, big technology-focused investors haven’t been as deterred. The public markets are basically dead,” said Kyle Samani, co-founder and managing partner of crypto-focused investment fund Multicoin Capital.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Over 143 million Americans will be at risk of financial fraud for years following the Equifax cybersecurity breach, while an estimated 3 million Wells Fargo customers unknowingly had their digital identity stolen to open fraudulent trading accounts. RegTech Trends. Key takeaways. Investments to regtech startups are on pace for a record year.

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BankUnderground

MAY 25, 2023

Closer inspection reveals an ecosystem experiencing several hacks, attacks, and fraud. These protocols, based on distributed ledger technology, eliminate, in theory, the need for trust in counterparties and for financial institutions as we know them. Estimates show at least US$6.5

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

We must be moments away from downloading a gamified banking app via our Google Glass, paying in Bitcoins using Apple Pay! And I've used gamified, Google Glass (so passe), Apple Pay, and the piece de resistance, Bitcoin. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

has picked up a bad bitcoin habit and turned to a life of cybercrime to support his cryptocurrency speculating addiction. Moreover, Malik noted, until fairly recently, the concept of satellite hacking was only for the very devoted and well-capitalized — probably a government agency of some kind. From space.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Simultaneously the bank invested in Paladin Fraud, Trabian Technology, and Chartwell Compliance to provide compliance and risk management solutions in the complex and connected web of fintech partnerships. Brandon Dewitt, MX co-founder and chief technology officer. Tom Sargent, CEO, First Technology Credit Union.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The nice people at the Fraud Advisory Panel invited me along to their expert stakeholder roundtable on “Protecting Consumers and Reducing Opportunities for Cybercrime”. Naturally the conversation began with tales of the Dark Net, pedophile exchanges and assassination marketplaces but it quickly turned into a discussion about Bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

Not liking basketball is no reason not to get in on the fun, and so, we made you our own little payments and commerce mini-bracket, a “Final Four” for anyone who would rather follow the price of bitcoin than the progress of Duke through the tournament. Productivity vs. The NCAA Tournament . The Retail Death Spiral . The big takeaway?

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

Online Fraud. The latest CyberSource annual report on online fraud tells the tale of card-not-present fraud not just going down, but going down by a whole big bunch – across all channels. Mobile was down, online was down and even cross-border fraud was down. Bitcoin Creator. Problem – what problem? And by a lot.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Download this presentation from the CB Insights Innovation Summit to see the technologies, business models and distribution innovations that you should watch for in the next 5 to 10 years. Google and Apple are exploring driverless car technologies. Bitcoin/blockchain. Bitcoin has had its share of troubles — including the Mt.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

No matter how good the technology you built is, payments is hard. When we started Square, the hardware, the servers, the technology was working in three weeks. When we launched, that was true for fewer than a third of Americans. and was followed by the great cybercriminal migration to the web and card-not-present transactions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

In payments and FinTech, it’s often the startup’s job to disrupt an industry with many legacy businesses, outdated technologies and processes. million in Series A funding from Vancouver Founder Fund and TIMIA Capital. Then there’s payment fraud, which Dahl said often occurs in the form of check fraud. “I

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Samsung bought LoopPay with its Magnetic Secure Transmission technology, which gives it the ability to reach merchants in a way that other wallets cannot due to having both the NFC (near-field communication) and MST (magnetic secure transmission) technologies. Offering this kind of technology could be a game-changer for small business.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Download this presentation from the CB Insights Innovation Summit to see the technologies, business models and distribution innovations that you should watch for in the next 5 to 10 years. Google and Apple are exploring driverless car technologies. Bitcoin/blockchain. Bitcoin has had its share of troubles — including the Mt.

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