PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

The Chinese tech giant wants to capitalize on an initiative from Beijing, which announced it wanted to bolster the country’s technology infrastructure in the next few years. China Renaissance analyst Alex Liu said the pandemic “expedited the digitalization of people’s way of life,” according to Reuters.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

In June , Byrne was ready to welcome Facebook’s entry into the cryptocurrency market. At the Fortune Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, New York, he said the social media giant’s launch of its own digital currency validates the space, and that Overstock would be open to partnering with Facebook on the project.

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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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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This year’s blockchain craze has pushed a huge amount of new money into cryptocurrencies, private blockchain projects, and companies holding initial coin offerings (ICOs). As of now, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies stands at more than $220B — a huge leap from where it started the year at $18B.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2019

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said that he welcomes Facebook ’s entry into the cryptocurrency market. Byrne told CNN Business that the social media giant’s launch of its own digital currency validates the space — and Overstock would be open to partnering with Facebook on the project.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Unlike social media … the terms of engagement for innovations such as Libra must be adopted in advance of any launch.”. must do what London’s markets have always done: evolve,” Hammond said. ” He noted that projects with distributed ledger technology (DLT) could unlock “billions of pounds in capital and liquidity.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

With nearly $120 million raised for enterprise-serving startups, B2B venture capital saw one of its most successful weeks this year. Businesses across the globe operating in the blockchain, eCommerce-as-a-Service and alternative lending spaces (to name a few) all secured funding. Blockchain . Enterprise Security. Pwnie Express.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Talk has shifted from last year’s discussions on blockchain and chatbots to artificial intelligence and cloud-based cores. Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? Many […].

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

On the second day of FinovateFall 2016, fintechs continued to wow attendees with bright, dazzling new finovations. Attendees from banks, credit unions, and other fintech companies saw 31 demos of technology that has applications across the financial sphere, from financial data analysis to mobile payments to trading.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

The recent $14 billion worth of fresh capital for Ant Financial — the China-based firm that is now the most valuable privately held tech firm in the world, ahead of Uber — comes amid fresh fears among some banking professionals in the West that China is passing them by. Here comes China. That contrasts with the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

startup TaTaTu — a firm that bills itself as a social entertainment platform that uses crypto cash back as a reward for engagement. TaTaTu is basically a combination social media/ content streaming business model that offers subscribers “premium” video content and rewards users with crypto tokens when they watch that content.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Banks, on the other hand, in addition to understanding complex regulations and having greater access to capital, know their customers and have their trust. Fintechs started dominating in the digital channel by reaching clients through bots, social media and other digital channels. Banks are also innovators.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

will feature dozens of speakers on investing in innovation, chatbots, blockchain and more. Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif.,

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Pre-registration reached over 20 million people, and generated $60 million in revenue in its first week on mobile, against a development and marketing budget of $100 million. All this for a “free” digital experience, where people pay for rendered markers of social status reflecting their personality.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Fortr3ss’ Oracle service to Corda and Ethereum blockchains uses intelligent voice biometrics and artificial intelligence to solve the identity of node players in smart contracts for financial and healthcare institutions adopting blockchain. With small business, there is a tremendous need for access to capital.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I stuck my head around the corner of a conference session, and to my surprise found that it was people talking about the blockchain again. If you look at Venmo’s hockey stick, it’s clear that a P2P proposition has a ready market. People talk a lot of rubbish about the blockchain. Bank and Wells Fargo.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Consider companies like Gremln ( F14 ), which demonstrated a social media platform specifically for regulated industries, and Finect ( F13 ), which unveiled a compliant communication platform for financial professionals. Blockchain Bandwagon. ” Indeed. IBM is launching a regtech subsidiary – Business Insider.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I stuck my head around the corner of a conference session, and to my surprise found that it was people talking about the blockchain again. If you look at Venmo’s hockey stick, it’s clear that a P2P proposition has a ready market. People talk a lot of rubbish about the blockchain. Bank and Wells Fargo.

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Lex Sokolin

JUNE 24, 2019

Capitalism is a similar economic constraint, discarding companies without traction and sustaining those that generate cashflow engines with more clients. Ask peacocks and flowers what marketing firm they hired! So why am I going on an on about these bikes? bowerbirds, humans). One simple tactic is to become garish?—?brighter,

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. For many of us, we are fine losing social media photos, Twitter puns, or even our passwords.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. For many of us, we are fine losing social media photos, Twitter puns, or even our passwords.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Targeted at Marketing, execs, lines of business owners, etc. Social media is a special challenge since social media was not created with compliance in mind. I can see how some other social media channels may be more prevalent and important in the U.S. They record automatically on digital channels.

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Vitalik Buterin

APRIL 20, 2018

Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets , which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “ political economy ” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Capital One integration with Amazon Echo. Capital One is the only bank with a live Alexa integration (called “Skill”), but Lloyds Bank put together a proof of concept this spring. Sibos 2016 Celebrates the Blockchain. The blockchain. Technologies: AI, Chatbots & Natural Language Processing.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Blockchain. As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Huge corporations — like Walmart and Pfizer — have completed successful blockchain pilots. Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

The notion that Facebook is going to launch and ignite a global payments network, at scale, based on its own branded cryptocurrency and achieve global merchant and consumer acceptance is as likely as the predictions a decade ago that bitcoin and blockchain would, by now, become the internet of money. Social gaming. Something like this.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Select Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Wellcome Trust, GIC, SoftBank Group, DST Global. Valuation: $12B.

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FICO

MAY 5, 2021

It’s a mind-boggling number largely driven by demand for unfilled or rejected trade finance applications tabled by small businesses in emerging markets. Lenders and banks believe new technologies from artificial intelligence, machine learning and even blockchain could help significantly improve an SME's access to trade finance.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond). Jill’s use of Twitter is a model for any bank CEO looking to engage on social media. Community bank marketing resources. Freudian Slip Award. C’mon Man!’

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Fueled by social media, consumers want to get a hold of the latest trends as quickly as possible, and retailers must rapidly increase production to meet demand. Blockchain technology has the potential to address this shift, enabling a traceable supply chain by recording each step on a decentralized, distributed ledger.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Business confidence remains relatively high, but the latest analysis from CB Insights found that venture capital (VC) investment took a turn for the worse in Q1. Reports earlier this week in the Financial Times revealed that global venture capital funding dropped 13 percent to $6.3 Canada’s Webware.io

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Lex Sokolin

MARCH 31, 2021

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. Someone will be first to lay the railroads, deploy a blockchain, or buy up the valuable NFTs. Other forms of social capital are just as valuable?—?from

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Another way to put it is that features which institutions find compelling, such as heavy compliance, deep workflows, enterprise support, and backwards compatibility with 40 year-old software, are orthogonal to features that consumers find compelling, such as simple interfaces, availability in the Apple app store, and social media connectivity.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 21, 2016

Pearl Capital. Creating local currencies using blockchain technology. Sentiment analysis for capital markets. Social stock trading platform. Latest round: Unknown amount of new capital in Reverse IPO ($117 million value). Latest round: $30 million Debt. Total raised: $30+ million. HQ: Surry Hills, Australia.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We’ve simultaneously disdained and feared the fintechs, artificial intelligence and blockchain consortia. PNC made a Gonzo move with a national digital expansion in 2018 with the unique idea of building a small number of branches in target metro markets like Kansas City and Dallas. Capital One quit mortgage late in 2017.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 6, 2020

I’ve written before how the shock of opening up to capitalism in the USSR led to a 45% GDP collapse over half a decade , resulting in life expectancy decreasing by 10 years for the average Russian due to alcoholism and violence. In particular, I don’t quite buy it because of what is happening on Ethereum and public blockchains.

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