PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

New Zealand tax authorities published a ruling this month that includes guidance for employers that wish to pay their staff in cryptocurrency. Tax regulators noted that businesses can use foreign exchanges to facilitate their crypto payments, and offered guidance on how to calculate PAYE taxes and levies when paying in crypto. “If

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Things we’re reading today include … Deutsche Bank boss tells staff to think like a tech firm, if they keep their jobs HSBC retail head sees more bank partnerships with financial tech firms UK regulators seen as fintech friendly Chancellor dismantles key Osborne pledge to cut corporation tax Bitcoin technology offers hacker protection Bank (..)

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

And finally, there’s bitcoin, which has seen its use, transacting, trading and popularity fall off of late — except for among one group: criminals. And, speaking of things that may not be the future of financial services… Bitcoin, The Currency Of Digital Crime . But that future won’t be built by bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

The technology could also be used to verify that any returned drives have undergone a “certified erase” process to remove any user data. In other news, Brazil’s Tax Authority has announced that transactions involving cryptocurrencies must now be reported to the Department of Federal Revenue ( RFB ).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

Kadena’s existing blockchain clients include $3 billion asset manager USCF Investments, healthcare technology company Rymedi, and leading Latin American technology business Alteum, as well as one of the world’s top 100 largest banks, and Fortune 500 companies. “In

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

A New York State politician announced the creation of what he called the nation’s first cryptocurrency task force, to “study how to properly regulate, define and use” the currency, according to a Facebook post and reports. Cryptocurrency, however, is more than just an asset that stores value.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

The financial center operates with its own legal, regulatory and tax infrastructure and traces its roots back to 2005. As reported by the Gulf Times , the Qatar Central Bank adopted new regulations in December that focus on combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Time will tell, of course.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Although blockchain technology and Bitcoin, its best-known inhabitant, have been around for 10 years, the world is just now entering a seismic transition from holding account-based assets to a system that uses token-based digital assets. For example, Bitcoin is not money. This is a really seismic shift.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

16) that it is collaborating with technology and finance partners to develop a supply chain management platform for the cannabis market, with plans to first deploy the solution in Canada before global expansion. The company announced via press release on Tuesday (Oct. billion with 13 million recreational users.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Hong Kong’s new regulations and supervision on digital assets transactions validates the importance of blockchain technology and digital assets, which is good news for the whole industry,” Cai said in a speech at the World Blockchain Summit in Wuzhen, China.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Visa also announced that it had extended the real-time, ubiquitous capability to other disbursement types as well including insurance claims, contractor payments, tax refunds and even merchant account real-time funds settlement. The culprit is said to be the use of the BitGo wallet and the structure of the bitcoin accounts itself.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The Nassau Guardian reported that the framework will address many of the regulatory challenges the bank associates with crypto, including tax evasion, market volatility, fraudulent initial coin offerings (ICOs), and anti-money laundering policies.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

dollar-backed digital currencies for the payment of government taxes, fees and services. Technology is the future. If you look at five of the six largest companies in the world today, they are technology companies,” said Premier David Burt. “We In other news, Bermuda will now accept one-to-one U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Just like the volatility of bitcoin, the world of blockchain is no stable place. Hype over distributed ledger technology (DLT) has certainly led to a bump in shares for companies operating in the space — and even for some companies with seemingly no connection to the tool. But it’s not all smooth sailing. million as part of the shift.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Milan, Italy was the host of a formal bitcoin conference to address scaling and a protest conference that addressed, well, everything that the formal conference didn’t. Scaling of bitcoin is a thorny issue and one that caused some dissension at the Scaling Bitcoin conference that took place on October 8 and 9.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The blueprint for the proposed digital currency seems to offer Beijing extraordinary supervision over the flow of money, giving regulators economic control that most central banks do not have. “We I think you will see it very soon, in the next maybe two to three months,” Lee told CNBC at the FinTech Festival on Monday (Nov 11).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Call it, perhaps, a New Year’s Resolution list — for regulators. In addition, there will be examination of transfer agents (which help to settle transactions) that are developing blockchain technology. There are as of yet no bitcoin ETFs approved for trading. In documents released Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cryptocurrency has come a long way since bitcoin’s emergence as an unregulated, anonymous payment technology. Indeed, what will drive crypto adoption, Chell told PYMNTS, is in the technology’s ability to reduce payments friction, and integrate compliance and security. “Adoption is like water,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Governments may not be too keen on bitcoin, but blockchain is another story. According to reports, Kaliningrad governor Anton Alikhanov and VEB chairman Sergey Gorkov met with officials at the Russian Investment Forum to announce their collaboration using, according to Alikhanov, VEB’s “competence in the area of blockchain technology.

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JULY 12, 2018

He cited “Zug’s high quality of life, openness, pro-business mindset and favorable tax structure” as factors that make the city attractive to people from around the world. And he noted that “as an early adopter of bitcoin, the Crypto Valley has demonstrated its commitment to the digital transformation of the city.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

That caution extends to all manner of considerations in the realm, including the issuance of a state-backed cryptocurrency, and even the regulation of the digital currencies. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is eyeing the digital currency landscape closely, and where regulations are likely to come through in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

Headlines swirl around the price of bitcoin and its cryptocurrency cousins, around psychological barriers tied to $10,000 thresholds, around raids on suspect operators, around tax rates in South Korea and hacks of crypto exchanges. May there be an opportunity to play on existing and regulated rails? Operating as a U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Payments for goods between suppliers, wholesalers and retail distributors are in cash; payments to employees are in cash; tax payments are in cash; even paying the power company and water bill are contingent on cash. Ralston argued it’s a situation blockchain technology is uniquely well-suited to solve.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In his brand new book, “ The Curse of Cash ,” Rogoff also devotes a fair number of his pages to Central Banks’ inability to regulate monetary policy because, among other things, there’s too much cash being hoarded by people who are, by and large, engaging in bad behavior with it. Reality Check: Bitcoin Is For Criminals. Why bitcoin?

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It also noted that banks have found it challenging to develop new propositions to meet these demands – partly because of their reliance on legacy systems and partly because they are more constrained by regulations. The final key driver of hidden payments is virtual currencies, with Bitcoin the most famous of these.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

More than 30 startups in the blockchain and bitcoin space landed funding deals from venture capitalists, but more than a third went to just three companies: Circle, Blockstream and Digital Asset Holdings. There are two key scams targeting SMEs in West Australia, regulators said.

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MyBankTracker

APRIL 14, 2021

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, supporting dozens of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The company has recently gone public, giving investors the opportunity to invest in cryptocurrency technology in a unique way. Regulation. Company Overview.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 20, 2016

The British Government’s Chief scientific adviser, Sir Mark Walport , has published his Government Office for Science report on “ Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond blockchain ”. To be completely honest, I think our way of thinking about shared ledger technologies works well for a general audience.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Unlike our own Minister of Finance, he is actually an economist and he spent a decade as the Director General of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce so he understands the relationship between regulation and business very, very well. Under Pax Mongolia, China prospered. From ValueWeb: Chris Skinner: 9789814677172: Amazon.com: Books.

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APRIL 16, 2019

provider of business travel management services to small business (SMB) companies, announced a partnership with BitPay , which will allow Corporate Traveller to accept bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash payments from its customers. “We In other news, Corporate Traveller , a U.K. Our model is the right one.”.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Like taxes. Targeting banks and money services businesses allows for jurisdiction and regulation of the choke points (i.e., Assets at the giant, federally regulated banks like Citi and JP Morgan, are ballooning. This is the way.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Like taxes. Targeting banks and money services businesses allows for jurisdiction and regulation of the choke points (i.e., Assets at the giant, federally regulated banks like Citi and JP Morgan, are ballooning. This is the way.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

To get a bit more granular, in an interpretive letter , the OCC said that regulated financial institutions (FIs) can participate in independent node verification networks (INVN for short – namely, a blockchain network). What's the technology that it runs on top of it?’” Many of the questions are around, ‘how does USDC work?

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

I wonder how many of them will buy Bitcoin! The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which GPS is a magnificent human achievement, built by the US government and provided as a public good (for free, other than taxes) to the entire US personal and commercial sector.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

I wonder how many of them will buy Bitcoin! The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which GPS is a magnificent human achievement, built by the US government and provided as a public good (for free, other than taxes) to the entire US personal and commercial sector.

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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. There is a ton of regulation.”. I think it’s coming,” she said, adding that with the new funding, Beanworks will be looking at these technologies – and possibly blockchain – as it grows.

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