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How Collectives Aim To Make Cities Into Blockchain Centers

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Blockchain technology is taking hold in the Southwest, with the help of organizations encouraging development in the space. A group called the Austin Blockchain Collective , for instance, is looking to establish the Texas city as a hub for blockchain innovation.

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The Push For Cybersecurity Technology At Credit Unions

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Credit union (CU) associations and service providers are pushing for the adoption of technology to help with security and compliance. And on Wednesday (April 3), Austin-based cookware startup Made In announced it had closed a seed funding round.

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Netspend CEO On Making The B2B Pivot

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But for prepaid debit card firm Netspend — which spent much of the past year making just such a transition — the challenge wasn’t as much a matter of changing technology as it was of changing the company’s mindset. At the same time, he said Netspend can reliably do all of that with its built-to-scale technology platform.

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Wells Fargo Divests Payroll Assets

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Wells Fargo Business Payroll Services customers who use the Evolution payroll platform will continue [to] experience the same security and service they have come to expect, along with the added opportunity to benefit from Asure [Software’s] full suite of innovative products and services,” said Asure Software CEO Pat Goepel in a statement.

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Logistics FinTech Leads Quiet Week In B2B Funding

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six FinTechs were able to secure a share of the next round of RBS grant money , with the winners including small business banking and biometrics company Onfido. The company secured the investment from Ascension Ventures and Fuel Ventures, reports said. In the U.K., million in new funding , U.K.-based

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DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook No Slam Dunk

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The document was prepared by Facebook staff based on work it commissioned from lawyers at Sidley Austin, a Chicago-based law firm, and reviewed by WSJ. The report said separating the two apps from Facebook would be nearly impossible to achieve, cost billions, weaken security of the services and harm users’ experience. “A

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SXSW Accelerator Fintech Finalists for 2017 Announced

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More fintech is coming to Austin. Austin is known for having a thriving Read More. The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech — plus several others.

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