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MARCH 14, 2019

The movement to bring blockchain to cross-border payments proceeds apace. Might SWIFT be giving a nod, at least partially, toward the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT)? In an interview with CNBC, SWIFT Asia-Pacific Managing Director Lisa O’Connor said that some of its members are indeed using blockchain.

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JUNE 19, 2019

“We believe that developing standards and open specifications, as well as collaborating on implementations of them, is critical to removing customer blockers and accelerating blockchain as a mainstream technology. This means you can now deploy the IBM Blockchain Platform on the infrastructure of your choosing.

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Bussman Advisory

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Gain insights into disruptive technologies, industry updates, and success stories from our portfolio companies. Source Samsung’s IoT-Trackable Credit Card: Samsung unveils revolutionary card that can be physically tracked Samsung has unveiled a unique credit card in South Korea that can be tracked using its SmartThings Find service.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

It may seem that cross-border payments were in the … well … crosshairs this past week, with a number of country-by-country and company-by-company initiatives using blockchain and other methods to speed payments and lower fees. Everex, which traces its genesis to 2016, has focused on distributed ledger technology for cross-border payments.

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JULY 14, 2020

Blockchain firm Binance has launched the Binance Card in Europe, which lets users convert multiple cryptocurrencies to fiat to spend at more than 60 million retailers, according to an announcement. Binance said the card lets cryptocurrencies stay in their “native form” up to the time that a point-of-sale (POS) transaction takes place.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Three major Japanese players in technology, payments and banking will run a joint trial to determine how well a new blockchain-based identity verification system operates across companies and industries, the firms announced Thursday (Oct. million card members and $321.6 billion in 2019 transactions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

Among the latest hopes for healthcare payments is blockchain. Touted by observers and industry players as one of the top trends that could impact medical billing and data management for 2018, the technology is increasingly being viewed as part of the path to better efficiency in payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Every day the world hears about another blockchain project in the works or another distributed ledger technology consortium forming. Just last week, Deloitte found that in 2016 alone, nearly 27,000 new blockchain projects surfaced on the market. “The Reports said the filing, dated Nov. 9 with the U.S.

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2023

I remember when my mother stopped shopping at one department store because they wouldn’t give her a charge card in her own name, but another store would on their private-label charge card. Embedded Finance and Blockchain . While that sounds new and exciting, remember that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A German airline has issued the first airplane tickets powered by blockchain technology, according to a report by Reuters. Hahn Air, an airline that flies throughout Europe, said the blockchain tickets were a partnership with open-source travel distribution platform Winding Tree. It emerged as the system that powered bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The digital payments news out of Brazil has been fast and furious over the last few weeks – particularly when it comes to blockchain. The big story, however, has been blockchain, as entities public and private are hoping it might just be the digital magic bullet the entire ecosystem needs. Nubank’s $10B Regional Expansion .

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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

APRIL 16, 2020

Ant Financial rolled out a blockchain platform called OpenChain, which lets small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and developers harness its proprietary blockchain technologies, according to an announcement. The technology offers many modules to developers that they can use in different mixes to create trust in team efforts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A German airline has issued the first airplane tickets powered by blockchain technology, according to a report by Reuters. Hahn Air, an airline that flies throughout Europe, said the blockchain tickets were a partnership with open-source travel distribution platform Winding Tree. It emerged as the system that powered bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

With comparatively less red tape in the way as compared to many other cities, Dubai is able to implement smart city-type technologies in order to continue pushing digital development in many areas. One of the main drivers for the new efficiencies they want to pursue is blockchain. The Blockchain Building Block.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

BitPay has announced that OneGold, a marketplace that combines the benefits of gold and silver with blockchain-based digital assets, is now accepting bitcoin and bitcoin cash. In a Request for Information (RFI), the CFTC wants details about the technology, opportunities, risks, mechanics, uses, and markets, related ethereum.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

As commercial card innovation expands, service providers continue to target particular pain points for their business cardholders. Together, the companies are rolling out an offering that arms SMBs with commercial cards without the need for a personal guarantee, according to a press release. Archa Collabs With i2c in Australia.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Love or hate blockchain, there’s no denying that digital currencies have grown in popularity, and there is certainly a market for cryptocurrency acceptance at physical retail points of sale (POS). So far, said Lee, only the tech-minded are interested in blockchain adoption; it’s still too complex to be embraced by the average person.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Crypto boosters have spent the better part of the past decade promoting the idea that great fiat-currency disruptions are coming care of blockchain and literally hundreds of thousands of variations of cryptocurrency circulating in the world today. The Broader Blockchain Horizon. Crypto’s Path To Spendability.

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Banking Exchange

JULY 8, 2019

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

Global tech startup Beam Wallet is ready to launch a new mobile payment solution, which will link smartphones and blockchain technology to enable faster and simpler retail payments. Over there, merchants have managed to eliminate payment processing fees altogether on the Beam network.”.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2020, 50 private blockchain companies from 14 countries made it to the CB Insights Blockchain 50. GET THE LIST OF BLOCKCHAIN 50 COMPANIES. GET THE LIST OF BLOCKCHAIN 50 COMPANIES. The Blockchain 50 is our first-ever ranking of the 50 most promising companies within the blockchain ecosystem. First name.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2016

BNP Paribas has just completed its first cross-border corporate payments transactions via blockchain technology, the bank announced Wednesday (Dec. The bank completed the transactions for packaging company Amcor and trading cards company Panini, with payments cleared in multiple currencies across Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

But a company’s interest and efforts to adopt new technologies does not always mean that all B2B payment processes are improved. According to the report, more than a quarter of survey respondents said their firms have allocated at least $100,000 to payment technology investments in the year ahead.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

Strafford-Taylor noted that all of this will alter small businesses’ ability to manage their finances, injecting a hefty dose of efficiency into the SMB FinServ market. Purchasing cards , for instance, enable global payments to suppliers without the need to issue a purchase order, he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

When the B2B payments industry began considering what to expect for 2018, commercial cards weren’t often on the radar. Cards are still expected to account for only a minor fraction of B2B payments volume in accounts payable by the end of the year, after all, with ACH gaining traction as the go-to ePayments rail for corporate payers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

But it was blockchain that turned heads with its record-setting funding. With the second-largest funding of the week, Billtrust landed $50 million for its invoice-to-cash and accounts receivable management solutions. Blockchain. Analysts said the technology can be especially useful for B2B cross-border trade. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The latest Payments as a Service Tracker charts the newest developments in the space, including a blockchain-based loyalty program that enables reward points to travel across franchises, a digital currency remittances pilot and more. Money, business and loyalty reward points are increasingly showing signs of roaming from one venue to another.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

While the prices of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets have fallen from their 2017 peaks, equity investment into blockchain startups is on pace to hit all-time highs in 2018. THE FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECH. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Only through continued collaboration and fundamental research will it be possible for this technology to mature and for policy-makers to fully understand its potential,” Scott Hendry, Bank of Canada senior special director of financial technology, said in a press release about Jasper-Ubin project3.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Blockchain payments company Pundi X has announced plans to launch Open Platform, a tool to enable developers and businesses to create blockchain solutions. In a press release on Thursday (May 2), Pundi X said Open Platform will let developers and corporates list digital tokens, and create custom XPASS cards.

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Banking Exchange

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

“The intent with IIN was always to develop a meaningful ecosystem of bank users" Technology Payments Financial Trends Retail Banking Tech Management Mobile Online Cards Security Feature Feature3 Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Entrepreneurial and small travel management firms face a few key points of friction when it comes to payments: the volume of transactions they have to manage and the cost of accepting payments. That requires a lot of management on the back end for small travel companies and entrepreneurs that want to coordinate these trips.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

Last week we saw hackers prove there’s no such thing as vacation when there’s consumer data to steal, Wells Fargo continued its great rebuilding with a round of executive reorganization and Canadians said “no thank you” to the blockchain — but very politely, as is their custom. Canada Takes a Pass on the Blockchain. Here’s the rundown.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Florida, which recently legalized medical marijuana, saw its issuing of state ID cards slowed dramatically because Bank of America rather adamantly refused to touch online payments for medical marijuana cards. Ralston argued it’s a situation blockchain technology is uniquely well-suited to solve.

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Banking Exchange

MAY 26, 2021

Customers Bank, Capital Bank and Community 1st Credit Union among the latest to embrace financial technology Technology Financial Trends Payments Feature3 Fintech Feature Lines of Business Tech Management Mobile Online Cards Blockchain PPP Covid19 Community Banking.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

SoFi grew up quickly, expanding both the number and types of products it had on offer (mortgage loans, personal loans, wealth management services and life insurance) and its ambitions for what type of firm it wanted to be.

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