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Bitcoin Daily: People’s Bank Of China To Certify Digital Payment Products; Korean Security Agency Supports Blockchain Projects With $9M Fund

PYMNTS

The People’s Bank of China announced that it will certify 11 types of financial technology hardware and software used for digital payment and blockchain services. His comments even caused a price boost of bitcoin and blockchain stocks to the point that the Chinese state media advised people to stay levelheaded.

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NEW REPORT: How Banks Are Driving API-First Strategies

PYMNTS

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. APIs invite innovative changes to banking.

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Taiwan’s Central Bank Might Implement Blockchain

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According to news from Finance Magnates , Yang Chin-long, the new governor of the bank, spoke about utilizing new technology — including artificial intelligence, Big Data and blockchain — in the country’s banking system during his inauguration ceremony.

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The Future Of Payments Beyond The Pandemic

PYMNTS

In a roundtable discussion, the last in the “Powering the Digital Shift” series with Karen Webster, six experts in money movement, fraud prevention, banking and financial technology discussed one sure bet: “Digital optional” is no option as we move toward contactless commerce. Cross-Border Friction — And Bitcoins And Blockchain.

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What Customer Intimacy Has To Do With Payments

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What have the powerhouses Starbucks and Airbnb managed to do better than anyone else? PYMNTS: How does what you learn from people shape WePay’s innovation agenda? PYMNTS: Do you have any “formula” for innovation? A year ago, bitcoin was hot, companies rushed to add bitcoin to their checkout form.

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Transformation Time Bomb?

Independent Banker

When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement. Innovation in payments.

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Investment Tracker: FLYR’s Data Science Shakes Up Travel Industry

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Close on the heels of that $32 million garnered by Raisin, $30 million came Bitfury’s way, as the bitcoin miner looks to expand its presence in China. FLYR is a data science company that sits at the intersection of travel and financial technology, said Project Manager Andrew Jing.

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