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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Bitcoin payments app Fold has announced that its users can now get 3 percent back in bitcoin when they book a stay and experience on Airbnb. Fold allows its users to buy gift cards for bitcoin with 3 percent cashback, currently offering $25 or $100 gift cards on its website. And the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

China’s Guangdong province has launched a blockchain financing platform for small and medium-sized businesses, backed by OneConnect , a Chinese FinTech recently listed on the New York Stock Exchange, according to a press release. . ” TaxBit will use the funding to speed up customer growth, and make its products better. ”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

Bitcoin hit its lowest pricing level since the end of June, MarketWatch reported, dipping below the $6,000 level on Tuesday (Aug. The price of bitcoin was $6,241.95 Money app Square Cash has expanded its bitcoin trade offering to cover the entire United States, Cryptovest reported. and the price of Ether was $283.52

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Following relatively flat growth through the end of January (by cryptocurrency standards, anyway), bitcoin’s value spiked, breaking $1,000 to reach a high of $1,003.92 At the time of this writing, bitcoin sat tenuously at $1,000.73, up 1.36 bitcoin wallet and vault Xapo to operate in the country. percent for the day.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Here are some of cryptos’ key developments for 2020: Bitcoin Goes Higher And Higher. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. And one of the most notable events of 2020 was the big appreciation in bitcoin’s price, tied as it is (and was) to optimism about cryptos’ future.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Kevin Simback and Josie Lee seeded the list of US companies using technology in the broad Digital Mortgage Market – MortgageTech. 1 – Mortgage Enterprise Solutions – this includes offering lending operating system (LOS) providers, marketing/lead gen/application/underwriting/fulfillment/closing platforms, servicing Read More.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Collaboration and not competition, Visa’s Senior Vice President, Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos told Karen Webster in a discussion on the recent advancements and updates to Visa’s Fast Track program , is quite evident — particularly when one observes that a number of Visa’s partners are many that, on paper, might appear to be competitors.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The platform now supports trading through eight pairs, including Ethereum, bitcoin, Tether, USD Coin, NEO, TrueUSD, Paxos Standard Token and KuCoin Shares. Switzerland’s Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has made guidelines public for crypto firms to earn a FinTech license, The Next Web reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The Securities & Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has moved to freeze the assets of a $12 million cryptocurrency mining and multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme, Coindesk reports. In Hong Kong, 39 percent of new FinTech firms launched in the last year are now operating via blockchain, Cointelgraph reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The FinTech startup has already created several financial services products, including cryptocurrency and stock trading, savings wallets, junior accounts and rewards. Revolut was granted a European Union banking license in Lithuania in December 2018 and has begun operations in central Europe. billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

The Chilean government has revealed that it is looking to implement tougher regulations on cryptocurrencies and FinTech. Regulation of these platforms would mitigate some of the risks, such as money laundering and terrorist financing, and increase the legal certainty with which they operate.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

One minute officials are threatening to punish bitcoin operatives and traders, the next minute they are suggesting that citizens can use bitcoin “in areas where such activities are legal.”. Something’s Afoot In Japan For Bitcoin. Japan seems to be overcoming this hurdle by introducing regulations on bitcoin use.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The others, however, are working with more cutting-edge tech, including bitcoin and artificial intelligence (AI), and just so happened to see the largest funding rounds of the week. PYMNTS breaks down the investments for B2B FinTechs below. Expense Management.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2018

To take stock of the cryptocurrency market, take stock? News came Friday that the wild west of cryptocurrencies — where fortunes are made and lost in the blink of an eye, and where regulations are less than regular — might be well-governed by the stock market when it comes to governance. After a fashion.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

The blockchain — the underlying technology that powers the digital currency bitcoin — may be nearing its mainstream moment in the sun as four of the world’s largest banks are using it to develop a new form of digital currency. What that allows us to do is to take away the time these processes take, such as waiting for payment to arrive.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2016

Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

FinTech Firms Eye Bank Charters. And in the wake of the announcement late last month that FinTechs will be able to apply for banking licenses with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, caution abounds. The changes would come in the wake of the theft that occurred earlier this year at Coincheck , a currency exchange operator.

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APRIL 29, 2020

The volatility of cryptocurrencies and their existence in what’s often a grey area of regulatory compliance make businesses operating in this sector an unattractive target for traditional financial institutions. Bitcoin was created as a way to bypass the middleman of financial transactions — which, traditionally, is the bank itself.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Banks and FinTechs have been both competitors and collaborators in the financial services space. In recent years, banks have even seen greater competition in the lending market from new FinTech players that can quickly approve loan applications and distribute funds to lenders. New tools for new FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

While other countries are warning against cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings (ICOs), Japan has been embracing digital currency and has become a leader in the FinTech market. Earlier this year, Japan recognized Bitcoin as a legal tender and signed off on several companies that created cryptocurrency trading exchanges.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

and Asia, and PYMNTS lined up all the B2B FinTechs that recently scored fresh funding. Despite being banned in its home country of Kenya, BitPesa, a startup that uses Bitcoin to facilitate cross-border B2B payments, has continued to proliferate throughout the globe. Mobikon said it also hopes to establish operations in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2019

The New York State Attorney General ( NYAG ) Letitia James wants to see documents regarding an alleged deal made between cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin operator Tether that “misled their clients and investors.”. And Ripple has announced that Yoshitaka Kitao, Representative Director, President & CEO of SBI Holdings Inc.,

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. The Comeback Investment of the Year Award – Bitcoin (BTC).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Mall operators, for example, are finding it difficult to sell low-end mall retail, even at fire sale prices. Adyen comes out of the gate and crushes it, so to speak, as FinTech moves beyond the unicorn stage to … a unicorn on steroids, with a $15 billion market cap. Bitcoin: Pricing cracks below $6,600, amid news of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. Traditional banks are seeing new FinTech players become more competitive on several fronts, including lending.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

The alternative lending market is showing signs of defeat against traditional bank loans, and SMEs are strengthening their demands for more than the typical solutions currently offered by traditional FIs. Explore how B2B FinTech is on the cusp of change as we break down all of the statistics and surveys below. 60% of U.K. and U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Over the next months, we will be testing Billon’s solution and evaluating the potential added value for our customers,” Maximilian Schausberger, head of fintech partnerships at Raiffeisen Bank International, said in a press release. We intend to operate in full compliance with the SEC’s guidance in the TurnKey Jet, Inc.

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JUNE 18, 2019

For bitcoin — and for cryptocurrency brethren — a stretch of calm before the storm? The marquee name would be bitcoin , of course, which as of this writing was changing hands at a bit more than $9,100. Similarly, some other cryptos of note, among them ethereum (the second largest cryptocurrency as measured by market cap, at $28.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2017

For technology startups looking to expand their reach, crowdtesting has become a key resource to ensure operability on the global market. FinTech Abra, for instance, looks to change the way people around the world send and receive money. The goal is to have the process be as easy as sending a text message. “If

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Unfortunately, “60 Minutes,” famous for investigative journalism, missed the really big story in FinTech. A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest.

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JUNE 7, 2017

The June Faster Payments Tracker™, powered by NACHA , highlights the latest trends and developments on how banks and FinTechs are investing in faster payment infrastructure and how these payment technologies are altering the way business is conducted. The past few weeks saw a group of 10 global banks join Ripple’s bitcoin network.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 25, 2017

Housed at the World Bank, CGAP’s mission is to improve the lives of poor people by spurring innovations and advancing knowledge and solutions that promote responsible, sustainable, inclusive financial markets. Real-time, interoperable payment and transfer infrastructure is spreading across markets.

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Lex Sokolin

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Let’s mark things to market so that we are able to walk forward again. Markets still reflect financial constructions and schemes decoupled from the experience of the average person. has reinforced the value of Bitcoin. How should we contextualize Ethereum-based CBDCs relative to Bitcoin, Visa, and PayPal? billion users?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Under Secretary of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker told Geneva reporters that all cryptocurrency projects operating in the U.S. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) in August awarded the country’s first banking and securities licenses to blockchain service providers SEBA Crypto AG and Sygnum AG.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 20, 2021

We gaze with wonder at over $1 billion in raises announced last week, and over $10 billion in Fintech company value creation. Before we go there, however, we need some operating metrics. The new information to add is that the company is now worth nearly $30 billion on the public markets, up from a bit over $2 billion in 2019.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 20, 2021

We gaze with wonder at over $1 billion in raises announced last week, and over $10 billion in Fintech company value creation. Before we go there, however, we need some operating metrics. The new information to add is that the company is now worth nearly $30 billion on the public markets, up from a bit over $2 billion in 2019.

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