PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

The idea that blockchain can be divorced from the crypto realm and used to trade and store assets is quickly gaining, well, currency. Blockchain for Trading . Trading protocols that operate across the blockchain, he said, are non-custodial, which means “sovereignty over your assets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Betting On Blockchain. For Inxeption, one of the most promising innovations to achieve this leap is blockchain. The company is also deploying blockchain to create a digital business identity for its users, a mechanism that Dibachi said will instill trust in the buyer-supplier relationship.

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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. . In other crypto news , cryptocurrency tax automation software TaxBit has raised $5 million in funding.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Through a four-day test of a know-your-customer (KYC) compliance system, a group of 39 participants were able to make 300 transactions in 19 countries with an app from Synechron built on R3’s Corda blockchain platform. Broadhaven Capital Partners was the sole advisor to R3 on the deal. Rutter said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

On another note, Illinois has become the most recent state to recognize blockchain-based records, including smart contracts, as legal, according to CoinDesk. Illinois’s Blockchain Technology Act went into effect on Jan. In other news, blockchain compliance startup Securrency has received $17.65

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2019

The China Banking Association (CBA) has announced the launch of a blockchain-based platform for trade finance. In other news, Vaishali Mehta, who worked as a senior compliance manager at Coinbase, has left the company to become the head of compliance for TrustToken , which produces the TrueUSD stablecoin.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to Blue Star Capital , its investee company SatoshiPay has launched a new B2B payments platform to speed up cross-border payments, Proactive reported. That will let approved banks and businesses join a compliance network and share KYC/KYB details.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Spending on blockchain technologies will ramp up to $9.2 Its latest Worldwide Semiannual Blockchain Spending Guide also calculated a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of blockchain spend of 81.2 2018 will be a crucial stage for enterprises as they make a huge leap from proof-of-concept projects to full blockchain deployments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2018

It seems that blockchain may never leave the lab and enter the real world. And, indeed, this week’s Blockchain Tracker continues its coverage of ongoing tests and trails of blockchain solutions. Take a look at the ongoing tests — and the projects that made it out of the lab — in the breakdown below. Testing Continues.

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Abrigo

JULY 27, 2023

Would you like other articles on fraud and AML/CFT compliance in your inbox? Using regtech in banking With new federal regulatory and compliance challenges like the CFPB rule on the horizon, more and more community financial institutions are exploring regtech in banking and finance. What is regtech?

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Abrigo

JULY 27, 2023

Would you like other articles on fraud and AML/CFT compliance in your inbox? Using regtech in banking With new federal regulatory and compliance challenges like the CFPB rule on the horizon, more and more community financial institutions are exploring regtech for banks to enhance their processes. What is regtech?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The round was led by Blockchain Capital, Standard Crypto, Blockchain.com Ventures and more. BitMEX has announced a new Chief Compliance Officer in Malcolm Wright, who will serve in the role for 100x Group, which operates HDR Global Trading Limited, which runs BitMEX.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

While Chinese traders are limited to the purchase of up to $50,000 of foreign currency annually, the volume suggests stablecoins could be being used to circumvent the regulation, according to Chainalysis , the New York-based provider of regulatory compliance software.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

According to John Roth, chief compliance and ethics officer at Seattle-based exchange Bittrex, it will be costly and difficult for companies to follow these regulations. The company is developing the Spring Protocol, which is a blockchain-based platform designed to transform how information and data are shared globally.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2016

Investors may be flocking to blockchain technology startups that are seeking out new ways to use the tool, but one startup just secured investment for making sure that the businesses using blockchain are doing so within the confines of the law. via our contacts and knowledge of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Payments and commerce so often boil down to giving consumers what they want, and the same is looking to be true for blockchain , the popular distributed ledger technology underlying cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. Industry giants are starting to think about jumping on the blockchain bandwagon.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 27, 2017

The opportunity ship has sailed for personal finance management, lending, or robo advisory sectors of fintech, according to Rebecca Lynn, co-founder of venture capital firm Canvas. So where are investors looking for new opportunities?

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, R3 , an enterprise software provider, is collaborating with Mastercard to establish a blockchain cross-border payments solution. Mastercard, R3 Team Up To Bring Blockchain To X-Border Payments. And Groupon is said to be mulling an acquisition. Google Express To Shutter And Merge Into Google Shopping.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2017

IBM is way past looking for blockchain use cases — it has between 300 and 500 blockchain projects going at the moment, according to CEO Ginni Rometty. In an interview with Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan (Moynihan interviewed Rometty) Rometty revealed some of the areas where she sees blockchain Read More.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion. While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

” Existing Ripple investors include GV (Google Ventures), Andreessen Horowitz, IDG Capital Partners and Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures. Ripple is the only provider of enterprise blockchain solutions and counts 15 of the top 50 global banks as customers. Ripple has received a total of over $93 million in funding.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 28, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – Public blockchain platform Waves is launching a new blockchain venture product called Basics Fund to focus on investing in crypto-assets and pre-sale ICO tokens. The fund is dedicated to investment in blockchain infrastructure, specifically in a diversified portfolio of promising startup projects in the blockchain space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

This year could be the year that blockchain emerges from its current status as a largely hypothetical game-changer to one that’s put to the test. While few working applications of blockchain technology are in use today by financial service providers, the industry continues to place its confidence — and money — behind the technology.

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MARCH 26, 2018

A press release issued Friday (March 23) said Candex secured the funding from Edenred Capital Partners, Partech Ventures, Advisors.fund, Camp One Ventures, NFX, Tekton Ventures, Big Sur Ventures and angel investor Mark Goines. Last week, another industry startup, Paymerang, announced $26 million in funding from Aldrich Capital Partners.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As FIs dabble in blockchain-based payment technologies, financial services technology firm Apifiny is also seeking to drive adoption of blockchain. SatoshiPay Debuts Blockchain Payments Platform. blockchain is picking up steam as a payments rail, too. Apifiny Finds Tester For Instant Settlement Network. Outside the U.S.,

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Primary markets represent the first stage of the capital markets cycle, where securities are created and issued for the first time, such as during an IPO, when issuing equity, or when raising money through bonds. Trying to understand how both big & small players are using Blockchain to disrupt finance? First name. Company Name.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

For the second time this week, a blockchain startup has secured funding from venture capitalists. Reports said RSK Labs is now working on a smart contract platform to act as a portal through which developers can create their own blockchain solutions compatible with Ethereum.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The afternoon session brought on the blockchain. The morning session at BBVA Open Talent Challenge was all about artificial intelligence. From these sessions, two winners were chosen that will have the chance to engage with a global bank — perhaps the ultimate prize for a fintech startup today. The challenge was part Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

The whispers have grown to loud chatter when it comes to blockchain technology and the impact it might have on the financial services sector. The latest research from PwC found that banks are no longer taking blockchain technology as an easily ignored fad. For FIs, it’s better to be friend instead of foe with the disruptor.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In March of 2016, I testified on the revolutionary nature of blockchains before the U.S. Since that time, blockchains have continued garnering interest across multiple industries from banking to health care, and have been explored for quite a few additional use cases. And let’s not forget blockchain’s nature as a disruptive technology.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

German blockchain finance firm Bitwala announced that it has raised $14.5 Today, we are offering a bridge for both mainstream users and blockchain buffs, who want to interact with the emerging blockchain ecosystem — the growing digital economy spreading across the globe.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

To facilitate digital transformation for financial institutions, we’ve developed the IBM Open Banking Platform, a software suite designed to enable fast creation of next-generation apps, low-risk innovation and regulatory compliance. You can embrace new ideas, build new Fintech partnerships and respond faster to changes in the marketplace.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2016

R3 founder and CEO David Rutter confirmed Tuesday that the blockchain consortium would be closing on $150 million funding round in early 2017. In an interview at Techcrunch Disrupt in London, Rutter also said he expected its leading-edge product Corda to be put into use late next year, and for Read More.

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Perficient

MAY 27, 2022

There is good reason for this shift in view; according to Marc Bernegger, co-founder of crypto fund AltAlpha Digital, “after last year’s explosion of crypto hedge funds around the globe, there are now over 400 active funds, excluding those focused on venture capital.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

To understand why the trade finance gap persists, PYMNTS spoke with Krishnan Ramadurai, the ICC Trade Register Project’s new chair and HSBC’s global head of capital management for trade and receivable finance. Ramadurai said it is too early to rely on blockchain to make an impact on the trade finance gap, though.

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