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JUNE 3, 2019

Fluree, a database management startup based in North Carolina, has raised $4.7 million in a funding round to develop blockchain and integrate it into its database technology, according to a report. something you can’t do with current databases or other data management technologies,” he said. “It

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Data from venture firm Tribe Capital revealed that the number of monthly U.S. customers buying and selling on the exchange platform in September fell about 80 percent from December, when the price of bitcoin reached its high of nearly $20,000. .” In other news, cryptocurrencies falling prices are hitting Coinbase hard.

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MARCH 28, 2018

Bitcoin fell below the $8,000 level on Tuesday (March 27), CCN reported – and the cryptocurrency market as a whole could fall below a market cap of $300 million. Bitcoin was trading at $7,770.44 The deal’s terms were not available, but Morgan Creek has $1 billion in assets under management (AUM). as of 10:41 p.m.,

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JANUARY 13, 2020

The round was led by UOB Venture Management, Seven Bank, Uni-President Asset Holdings, HashKey Capital, Hopeshine Ventures, Signum Capital, Du Capital and Hanwha Investment and Securities. “We The company that developed the Velo Protocol, Lightnet, has raised $31.2

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23) said a transaction between a top Russian wheat shipper and Turkey was completed in bitcoin. The company, headed by Chief Executive Officer Ivan Vikulov, is the result of collaboration between Quorum Capital and Interchart. The freight industry has just seen its first transaction settled via cryptocurrency.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

“We launched our first distributed ledger technology in trade finance as early as 2017. Our decision to take part in the pilot project was prompted by our intention to optimize the process of interaction with partners based on blockchain technology.

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MAY 10, 2019

“A community-wide effort to improve compliance standards would prevent liabilities that might stem from trading with bad actors or dealers that trade with bad actors,’’ Darius Sit, a Singapore-based managing partner at crypto trading firm QCP Capital, said, according to Bloomberg. “A

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, FIS is working with Quontic Bank on the Bitcoin Rewards Checking Account, while Aeldra has chosen i2c Inc. FIS Powers Launch Of Quontic Bank’s Bitcoin Rewards Account. FIS Powers Launch Of Quontic Bank’s Bitcoin Rewards Account. to power its digital private banking offerings.

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MAY 13, 2016

Promoting bitcoin. Which is why Obama and his team probably aren’t enthusiastic about an op-ed for CNBC from a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner suggesting that the White House should “heed the call” on bitcoin. One thing that’s probably not higher on that rapidly growing list?

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The company, which is based in both Switzerland and Singapore, has been talking with regulators and petitioned for a capital markets services license, which will allow the firm to offer asset management as a first step into financial services, co-founders Mathias Imbach and Gerald Goh said, according to Deal Street Asia. “In

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

And Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon unveiled a $108-million plan to make the capital into a blockchain-enabled smart city, Coindesk reported. He said that multiple public services such as elections and labor welfare will use the blockchain technology. The research is described as “a project that uses blockchain technology to improve U.K.

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Trade Republic , a commission-free trading app, has raised $900M in a Series C with participation from Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Technology Crossover Ventures, among others. Trade Republic recently launched commission-free trading of crypto assets like Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Cash.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Yet for finance leaders of the enterprise, adoption of digital assets poses plenty of risks and challenges, not least of all the inability for their current treasury infrastructures to manage crypto in an integrated and compliant way. Initially, businesses began to dabble in crypto with an experimental approach to the technology.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Ripple , the blockchain company, announced news on Wednesday (April 11) that it has invested $25 million of its XRP cryptocurrency in Blockchain Capital’s $150 million fund Blockchain Capital Parallel IV. Blockchain Capital is the premiere fund for any project looking to get off the ground in the blockchain space.

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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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JANUARY 30, 2019

News comes that a number of high-powered bastions of higher learning have banded together to bring cryptocurrencies to the mainstream, in a way that bitcoin seemingly cannot, eyeing scale and processing speed. The effort is being funded by Distributed Technologies Research (DTR), which is a nonprofit foundation based in Switzerland.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2018

Bitcoin mania has died down in the fintech world, and the conversation has shifted to technologies like voice banking, payments, and alternative credit scoring. What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out.

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Adoption of cryptocurrency by large fund managers is being hurt by the difficulty cryptocurrency exchanges and traders located in Asia are having trying to get insurance to protect against hacks and theft. However, getting such coverage is almost impossible despite their best efforts.”.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Powering the push in spending, according to the Commerce Department reports, are historically low unemployment figures , wages finally starting to show real gains and additional liquid capital among workers due to the tax cuts of late 2017. In and of itself, that is not terrible news, as long as consumers are managing all that debt well.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Bitcoin has never been more valuable, hitting $34,000 and $630 billion in market capitalization. a gigantic infusion of capital from the government into the hands of business and individual. Does it fuel the price of Bitcoin? Crypto feasts on this capital appreciation?—?as Cool, smart, memetic digital gold.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Bitcoin has never been more valuable, hitting $34,000 and $630 billion in market capitalization. a gigantic infusion of capital from the government into the hands of business and individual. Does it fuel the price of Bitcoin? Crypto feasts on this capital appreciation?—?as Cool, smart, memetic digital gold.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

To that end, and as reported, NCR is looking to buy Cardtronics , in a deal that takes place amid recent news that Apollo Global and Hudson Executive Capital, private equity firms, were also gunning for Cardtronics. So we led with technology.” Even cryptos – and post-pandemic, a quickening embrace of the ATM.

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And, although Google searches for “bitcoin” and “blockchain” have slid, companies are still flush with cash from 2017’s ICO boom, cryptocurrency price run-up, and venture capital investment — and are spending it. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One of the key reasons for the complicated relationship – the term “frenemies” comes to mind – is that FinTech newcomers are demonstrating innovative approaches to traditional banking practices, including financial management services and money transfers, while older banks tend to be wedded to older systems.

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Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. stake in Valley Bank.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The sovereign beasts continue to threaten each other with geopolitical, economic, and technological dominance. has reinforced the value of Bitcoin. The price of the cryptocurrency rose to over $15,000, breaking again the $250 billion market capitalization barrier. The virus gorges on the social animal. billion users?

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APRIL 14, 2018

Normal protocol would automatically push the tax filing deadline to April 16, but this year, April 16 marks Emancipation Day in the nation’s capital, and so, as a holiday gift to all of us, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has given Americans until April 17 to file their taxes. The Sluggish Bitcoin Filers. That means U.S.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

He mentioned the likes of Bain Capital, The Carlyle Group or KRR. Davidson Analyst Tom Forte reported Overstock may sell its home goods and furniture eCommerce unit so as to focus on bitcoin blockchain technology. Earlier this week, the stock jumped after Morgan Stanley Investment Management said it had acquired an 11.4

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

With the acquisition of international B2B payments provider Cambridge Global Payments by fuel cards and workforce payment products services provider FLEETCOR Technologies in August, the latter has gained a leg up on competitors in the industry. $55 Here are the numbers: $390 billion | Value of donations to nonprofit organizations in 2016. .

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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.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Thomson Reuters is joining a consortium that includes some of the largest financial institutions around the world working to determine how to use blockchain technology in global financial markets. Blockchain technology is behind bitcoin, the popular digital currency, and enables data to be shared between a network of individual computers.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Of course, the FinTech industry doesn’t have to look it up, but the dictionary now defines blockchain as a technology that enables the keeping of records of financial transactions in a digital database as part of a publicly accessible network. Blockchain is now an official word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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APRIL 26, 2019

After relying on the supposed anonymity of bitcoin, members of a ring that imported drugs into the United Kingdom with the help of the dark web were sentenced to over 30 years in jail. The gang leader reportedly managed the operation at the flat of his girlfriend at the time.

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JUNE 19, 2020

The CBDC will be integrated with Siam Cement Public Company’s financial management and procurement systems and its suppliers developed by Digital Ventures Company. After a feasibility study by the Bank of Thailand, the CBDC will be integrated so as to implement the new payments system.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Similar to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Facebook’s proposed libra, China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment will be powered partially by blockchain technology and dispersed through digital wallets.

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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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Our third example is Chainalysis, the crypto-ecosystem mapping firm that helps institutional actors like government, asset managers, and banks interact with blockchain-based digital assets. have to do with Bitcoin laser eyes and NFTs? Other forms of social capital are just as valuable?—?from So what do these compliance firms?—?valued

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