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APRIL 2, 2020

The agency is seeking analysis and comment on the proposed rule changes of BOX Exchange to start Boston Security Token Exchange (BSTX) operations. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is lengthening its timeframe to approve or reject operations by a tZERO-affiliated security token exchange, per a release.

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Accenture

MAY 6, 2016

At Sibos 2014, in Boston, I found myself at the Innotribe forum watching a presentation from Vitalik Buterin, one of the founders of the Ethereum blockchain who had the original idea and vision. He was then only 20 years old, Read more.

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JUNE 29, 2020

The lawsuit goes back to October 2017, when Boston law firm Block & Leviton said it was looking into securities fraud by the Tezos ICO. The SEC, according to Cointelgraph, contends that many ICOs are unlicensed securities offerings.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2017

Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston all have thriving fintech communities, and are definitely worth a trip for the invested fintech entrepreneur, but the U.S. is already seeing a cluster of other fintech hubs emerge. These cities boast strong tech communities, talent pools, good coffee, and cheaper rents.

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American Banker

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The new service from the Boston-based asset manager comes at a time of soaring price increases for the world's most valuable digital asset.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Despite that, there have been early studies of such payment methods at the central bank’s Boston location, CoinDesk reported. And he said the private sector’s ability to create private money like bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies that led the Fed to look into all of this in the first place, CoinDesk reported.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 23, 2017

These are the ones I quite liked, so it’s not … What happened to the bitcoin bubble? I was interviewed by UBS’s wealth management team a month ago, when the bitcoin bubble was in full bloom. They may or may not be, you can decide, as I’m posting some of their stories here. The price had exploded, tripling in a month.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Meanwhile, the Boston Fed has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the necessary tech infrastructure. Read More On CBDCs: Bitcoin Daily: Didi Joins China's Digital Yuan Testing; Putin Orders Russian Gov't Workers, Officials To Disclose Crypto Assets China Trials Digital Yuan By Giving Away $1.5M

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MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Gox, the Toyko-based and now defunct bitcoin exchange run by Mark Karpeles, all sorts of people were trying to find the missing bitcoins that vanished when the exchange went belly up. Unfortunately, for those people with the missing bitcoin, on that score, there’s only bad news.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

The Boston-based financial group, which has over $2.8T Johnson noted in a press release that the idea was to make digital assets such as bitcoin more accessible: “We expect to continue investing and experimenting, over the long term, with ways to make this emerging asset class easier for our clients to understand and use.”.

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JUNE 15, 2017

The Boston-based firm says the service wants to tear down national borders when it comes to moving funds internationally. The new international money transfer service is built on the Ethereum blockchain (and digital currency cousin of bitcoin) and will allow payments to flow between U.S.

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MAY 1, 2018

are considering the regulation of digital tokens outside bitcoin. Amazon Expands Boston Tech Hub; Adds 2,000 New Tech Roles. Ether In The Crosshairs Of Regulators. Regulators in the U.S. A new inquiry reportedly focuses on the cryptocurrency Ethereum, which hasn’t been in the crosshairs of regulators as of yet.

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APRIL 8, 2016

Bitcoin plus blockchain plus banks still seems like an unlikely combination, despite news that JPMC and Citigroup have completed their tests about using it in support of credit default swaps. Circle, the social payments app that runs on bitcoin’s blockchain, launched with support from Barclays as part of a new partnership.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In September 2016, the last survey, some things had changed: London New York Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo San Francisco Boston Chicago Zurich Washington DC No Frankfurt. I guess it’s because I was reflecting on digital currencies and the likes of bitcoin and ZCash. No China, although Hong Kong would be it.

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JUNE 13, 2018

However, Crater’s attorneys argue that the specific ruling involved bitcoin, for which futures are traded. District Judge Rya Zobel in Boston is due to hear arguments in the case on Thursday (June 14).

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Beyond bitcoin – that marquee name of crypto and its brethren, which have yet to escape wild price swings and speculative fervor – lies the prospect of CBDCs. The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring a digital currency.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

In this space just last month, we noted findings from Boston College that showed that 4,000 ICOs had raised $12 billion. One of the duo responsible for the Boston College paper, PhD candidate Hugo Benedetti, took note of the gold rush that comes when the timing is spot on. Past is prologue, as the saying goes.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Circle, the social payments app that runs on bitcoin’s blockchain, launched with support from Barclays as part of a new partnership. Circle is a Boston-based startup that has major VC backers, along with big banks like Goldman Sachs and Digital Currency Group as an investment firm backer. Circle’s decision to launch in the U.K.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

For instance, there are startups using blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, for supply chain tracking and transparency. There are all sorts of technology-driven solutions cropping up in response to this demand.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The Boston-based Circle has offered several services over the past few years and has shifted its strategy.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Bit by bit — but more than bitcoin by bitcoin — cryptos are inching into the mainstream, for both consumer and commercial applications. Elsewhere, Square announce last month that it has invested $50 million — approximately 1 percent of its total second-quarter assets — to purchase roughly 4,709 bitcoins. “We

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JUNE 10, 2016

Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the national bank regulator, told the Boston startup they would weigh its request. “We need to be open to discussing it and working through it,” said Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, referring generally to bank charters for FinTech companies.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Alexander also had the reaction that most payments and commerce outsiders have when you explain the concept of bitcoin to them — and then invite them to a really in-depth conversation about digital currency. And now, with all the awards given out and the innovators departing Boston with their hardware in hand, the real work begins.

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JULY 21, 2018

And while guesses varied – bagels, blintzes, belly-dancers, bitcoin, berries – the Twitter streams more or less correctly forecast the news that came down the pipes on July 11: the “b” stood for burgers. Now, we’re flippin’ our name to IHOb. Find out what it could be on 6.11.18. IHOb,” the brand mysteriously sent out over Twitter.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Back in 1870, it took days to get cash from Boston to San Francisco through a combination of railroads and horseback. A couple of years after Revolution Money announced its “transformative” and “innovative” payment system, “ Satoshi Nakamoto ” circulated a technical white paper that described bitcoin and put the code out into the ether.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

OCTOBER 9, 2014

This year it was in Boston and one of its notable features was a closing keynote by Bill Gates, focusing on the issue of financial inclusion. So off I went to Innotribe in time for the discussion about Bitcoin. From Bitcoin, currency and competition at Tomorrow''s Transactions.]. They didn’t.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Payments have always been about what’s next, Karen Webster recently noted, from the first exchanges made for seashells to bitcoin and beyond. Another being the future — which co-incidentally will be our special area of focus this year when IP gets up and running in just a few hours.

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). Don’t worry if you didn’t remember to get us a present – we didn’t want to make too big a deal out of it, so we didn’t remind you. Of course, we don’t really expect or even want gifts for our ninth anniversary.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

That represents a 6 percent crash in over a day, kicked off by bitcoin dropping $300 in just over an hour and 4.5 CFO Adam DeWitt noted that a seven-year-old, Boston-based LevelUp serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. percent on the day.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 8, 2016

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Bitcoin-based mPOS technology. Bitcoin exchange. Tags: Institutions, payments, funds transfer, blockchain, bitcoin, crypto-currency. Source: Crunchbase. Digital renter’s insurance. Latest round: $3.25 million Seed. Total raised: $3.25 Source: Crunchbase. Compliance Science. CirraGroup.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 13, 2016

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Bitcoin mining hardware. Tags: Consumer, payments, P2P, bitcoin, blockchain, crypto-currency, mobile. Source: Finovate. Person-to-person lender . Latest round: $30 million Series B. Total raised: $30 million. Source: Crunchbase. Lendful Financial. Online alt-lender. Latest round: $15 million.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: Cryptocurrency, bitcoin, virtual currency, payments. There were two jumbo rounds: $50 million to cryptocurrency startup Circle and $30 million to multiple Finovate Best of Show winner MX (formerly Money Desktop). Here are the deals listed by size from April 25 to April 30: Circle. Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

HQ: Boston, Massecheusetts. Bitcoin compliance solutions. Tags: Consumer, blockchain, crypto-currency, bitcoin. Total raised: $4.1 Source: Finovate. Real-time investment strategies. Latest round: $2.7 Total raised: $2.7 Source: FT Partners. Asset verification . Source: Crunchbase. Scorechain. HQ: Luxembourg. HQ: Austin, Texas.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

HQ: Boston, Massechuesetts. Bitcoin payments. Tags: Enterprise, SMB, blockchain, distributed database, bitcoin, cyrpto-currency. Source: Crunchbase. Mobile payment platform for restuarants. Latest round: $5 million. Total raised: $45 million. Tags:Consumer, merchants, payments, POS, acquiring, debit/credit cards, mobile.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Smart contract platform tied to bitcoin. Tags: SMB, security, authentication, bitcoin, contracts, legal, fraud, cryptocurrency, blockchain. Source: Crunchbase. Maxwell Health. Payroll & beneifts platform. Latest round: $22 million Series C. Total raised: $56.4 Source: Crunchbase. CrowdStreet.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

We aren’t talking just Bitcoin or Ethereum. Before getting into banking, he started two tech companies in Asia and was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. –Plinqit founder Kathleen Craig and panel at AFT Fall Summit. Pandemic-May-Be-Easing Visual-of-the-Year. THE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS. Technology of the Year.

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APRIL 6, 2018

BitPay deploys blockchain technology to facilitate cross-border B2B payments via bitcoin. The company said it has so far processed more than $1 billion in bitcoin payments, and with the new funding, the U.S.-based based firm plans to expand across Asia. Logistics. 6 River Systems.

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