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Bitcoin Daily: Ping An’s FinTech Arm Teams Up To Launch Blockchain Solution; CFTC Calls For Default Ruling For Alleged Ponzi Scheme Founder

PYMNTS

OneConnect Financial Technology and China Merchants Port Group ( CMPort ) will work to create a blockchain-based system with Shenzhen customs to serve the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. OneConnect is the financial arm for Ping An Insurance, the largest insurer in China.

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FinTech year in review: What we saw and where we’re going

Insights on Business

The dominant story is that fintech startups and banks are better off as friends than foes. Fintech, once seen as a disruptor, is now becoming a mainstream and also a collaborating partner. Banks provide trust and infrastructure to a partnership with fintech. Technology isn’t a disruptor. Banks are also innovators.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become more broadly adopted in everyday commerce. . At a high level, that means helping crypto companies and FinTechs come to market with crypto payments across the Visa rails.

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Virtual communities and digital worlds

Lex Sokolin

Thus the current Fintech obsession with Buy-Now-Pay-Later companies like Klarna and Affirm ( going public ), which lever up these marketplaces with credit. Relying on some of the data from a recent post from Our Network , we can start identifying how economies, communities, and blockchain-based assets come together and overlap.

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Fintech Trending: P2P, EMV, NFC, NLP… OMG

Fintech Labs Insights

Expect to see much, much more activity as financial institutions and fintech companies develop applications using Amazon’s Alexa and the new Google Assistant. Sibos 2016 Celebrates the Blockchain. The blockchain. 2016 was the first year that Sibos dedicated a track “exclusively to distributed ledger” technology.

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FinovateFall 2018 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

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. And of course, SMB lending has been a huge focus for fintech.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

From my understanding of their offering they let mid to large financial planners/consultants utilize state-of-the-art data tools in real time coupled with NLQ AI for a better customer experience, allowing a financial planner to do a better job for more clients in less time. 01:15 pm 10 Reasons Why Fintech Startups Fail.

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