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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It’s been several months, if not years, since blockchain was the darling of tech startup investors, but this week proved the technology still has a lot to offer venture capitalists. blockchain startup Envoy will be used to bolster its supply chain and trade finance platform, the company told PYMNTS in an emailed announcement.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In other news, ten Spain-based tech and finance companies are developing a self-managed digital identity using blockchain and have completed the concept test phase, according to a Santander press release. "It shows retail flow. investors accumulating amid the price rally," Bequant Head of Research Denis Vinokourov told CoinDesk.

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MARCH 5, 2018

Blockchain supply chain management and cryptocurrency company VeChain is rebranding to VeChain Thor, and has confirmed a partnership with BMW that helped land a strong market capitalization. The news boosted its market capitalization by 2.41 According to Stock News Times , about $57.28 percent to $2.2

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Accenture has a blockchain solution that just went live, according to a press release. Keeping track of everything is complicated, and onboarding new clients involves a lot of data collection. Given this, Accenture Procurement asked our internal IT and Accenture Technology blockchain organizations for a solution.”.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ripple (XRP) has overtaken Ethereum within the last 24 hours, with a 7 percent surge in price for a market valuation of $24.28 But with the market cap of Ethereum only slightly below that of Ripple — combined with the weak volume of XRP — it is likely that Ethereum will regain its position as the second-most valuable cryptocurrency soon.

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APRIL 26, 2020

E-FRESCO , a fresh fruit virtual market, is introducing blockchain capabilities to help sustain cross-border needs, according to a report. Canada, the Middle East, Europe and South America, customers trying to buy fresh fruit and vegetables online through the marketplace can now use blockchain-based shipment and B2B technology.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

dollar, and is reportedly eyeing India’s remittance market. Like many other companies, Facebook is exploring ways to leverage the power of blockchain technology,” said a spokesperson for Facebook. “This new small team is exploring many different applications.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Bitcoin’s share of the total cryptocurrency market is close to falling below 50 percent for the first time in over seven months. percent of the market’s total capitalization, falling to a low of 50.54 Before 2017, bitcoin held more than 70 percent of the market — but that was before new cryptos came on the scene.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Samsung ’s latest Galaxy Note 10 aims to boost blockchain adoption by making it more user-friendly, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Sept. The new product will be marketed as a “KlaytnPhone,” named after a South Korean blockchain platform, sources told the WSJ. Right now, it’s only being sold in South Korea.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

As reported by CoinTelegraph , Switzerland ’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) this week unveiled guidance on the regulatory requirements that govern payments done over blockchain. Separately, FINMA has approved banking licenses for the blockchain service firms Sygnum AG and SEBA Crypto AG. billion) daily.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The movement to embrace blockchain — notably, among some tech giants — has gotten some momentum in recent days, with new announcements of projects going live. 12) that it has as many as a dozen enterprise clients using a cloud-based blockchain platform that went live in the summer of 2018. Crypto Losses To Mean Blockchain Gain?

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AUGUST 23, 2019

The World Bank announced it has raised $33 million from investors for its blockchain-based “Kangaroo” bond, Bond- i. The bond, which is due August 2020, is the first bond created, allocated, transferred and managed through its life-cycle using distributed ledger (blockchain) technology. This isn’t World Bank’s only blockchain project.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For some, that means embracing solutions built atop existing rails, or exploring new ones altogether. PYMNTS examines the latest initiatives that look to improve upon existing rails, or embrace new ones like blockchain and RTP. RTP Expands Across FI Base. Financial institutions (FIs) in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“Most things take 10 to 15 years to drive through the ecosystem,” McCarthy told Webster — especially when a range of stakeholders are involved, spanning two-sided markets, consumers, merchants and governments. Blockchain remains a key driver of cryptos’ future, both as unit of currency and store of value.

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MARCH 15, 2020

Our proprietary Atomic Swap technology enables immediate trade between major cryptocurrencies, our partners’ alternative currencies, and fiat currencies — both on the platform and in the local market,” according to the whitepaper. . Ultimately, outside of the villages, you really can’t trade cell phone minutes for anything,” he continued. “So

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Blockchain has been steadily making inroads in the B2B realm as a way to help boost supply chain transparency and efficiencies. To that end, in South Korea, a number of government ministries are looking into blockchain, eyeing the potential boost distributed ledger technology can give to marine logistics.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Host, Will Hernandez, discusses mobile fraud, how to combat it, and the recent trends to look out for, with Kount's VP of Marketing, Don Bush. Will also chats with Bradley Cooper, editor of Digital Signage Today and Blockchain Tech News, about the future of blockchain.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

Blockchain, the technology that makes cryptocurrency like bitcoin possible, is moving into the auto and ridesharing markets. According to a news report in Reuters , EY, the consulting unit of Ernst & Young Global, announced Wednesday (Aug. EY isn’t the only company eyeing blockchain technology.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

In today’s payments news, China has allowed PayPal to operate in the country with its purchase of a majority stake in GoPay. Also, Mastercard has outlined its intentions with blockchain following its high-profile Libra Association exit. Mastercard Outlines Blockchain Principles After Leaving Libra.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Plus, blockchain makes new inroads in the B2B arena. As Canada gears up to launch its real-time payments system, the Real-Time Rail (RTR), Payments Canada , the entity at the head of the initiative, has announced that Mastercard -owned Vocalink has been chosen as the clearing and settlement solution provider for the new payment rail.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Markets.com Chief Market Analyst Neil Wilson told Bloomberg, “It just shows what a massive, speculative bubble the whole crypto thing was, as many of us at the time warned. It’s a very likely a winner takes all market — bitcoin currently most likely.”.

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MARCH 29, 2020

GrainChain , the farming blockchain system for agriculture and farming business, has moved to the Symbiont network, Assembly, a change which the company anticipates will help expand its business, according to a press release. The leader in that round was Medici Ventures, the blockchain subsidiary of Overstock.com.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

In the world of blockchain phones, another name may crowd the pantheon. Said sites including thenextweb.com , Samsung, no small player in mobile devices, submitted three trademark requests in Europe that offer up some clues into blockchain-focused phones.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The financial services (FinServ) market is, by far, ahead of other industries when it comes to blockchain innovation and adoption, according to data released this year by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The new year has dawned with a number of cross-border payment pacts, done across blockchain and other means. In Pakistan, as reported by Coindesk, Telenor Microfinance Bank and remittance firm Valyou Sdn Bhd (a Telenor subsidiary) have launched a payment platform based on Alipay’s blockchain offerings.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

“We launched Lightnet to offer low-cost and instantaneous financial inclusivity and mobility to the four billion lives across Asia Pacific — all powered by Stellar’s fast, scalable, and sustainable blockchain technology,” said Chatchaval Jiaravanon, Lightnet’s chairman, in a press release.

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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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JANUARY 22, 2018

Royal Dutch Shell is boosting its position in the world of blockchain through an investment in distributed ledger startup Applied Blockchain. startup, which develops blockchain apps with a focus on smart contracts. Shell also chose Applied Blockchain as the winner of its startup development competition.

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MARCH 14, 2019

The movement to bring blockchain to cross-border payments proceeds apace. In an interview with CNBC, SWIFT Asia-Pacific Managing Director Lisa O’Connor said that some of its members are indeed using blockchain. SWIFT is not planning to use blockchain directly in efforts to settle transactions done between banks. One caveat?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In the ongoing move to embrace blockchain, Facebook may have its allies. IBM has said it is “willing” to work with Facebook on blockchain, as noted by an IBM executive. He said that a company such as Facebook can help bring more legitimacy to blockchain — yet he did not state whether IBM would look to join the Libra Association.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Blockchain-based lodging reservation platform Travala.com has unveiled a merger with TravelbyBit, a Binance-backed “cryptocurrency-friendly” flight reservation site, according to an announcement on Wednesday (May 20). ” The firms will cross-market each of their travel services as the initial step of the merger.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Overstock may be best known as an eCommerce business, but these days its CEO and Founder Patrick Byrne is much more interested in talking about the power of cryptocurrency and blockchain, and how it will be the real future of both the firm and the economy in general. Suffice to say, Byrne remains one of blockchain’s bigger boosters.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Blockchain technology has the potential to impact nearly every industry involving money. This gives those insurance companies involved in the trial the ability to communicate more effectively via blockchain technology’s ability to automate these pertinent aspects of the insurance process. SR: Impact is slow but expansive.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Blockchain is gaining traction in supply chain management, as evidenced by a series of announcements over the past several days. In other IBM news, the tech giant and Chainyard have teamed to develop a blockchain platform that streamlines supply chain management.

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JULY 8, 2020

China’s Cosco Shipping will test out Ant Blockchain from Alibaba’s Ant Financial in an effort to simplify its business, Coindesk reported Wednesday (July 8). The firms noted that blockchain could be used to send out documentation that can be authenticated and can’t be modified like import licenses and container records.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

HTC has announced it is partnering with Bitcoin.com to add bitcoin cash support for its Exodus 1 blockchain phone, which will come with Bitcoin.com’s preinstalled wallet and be rolled into the Exodus 1 software update. The company’s main goal is to reduce market manipulation and boost transparency, according to Cointelegraph.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Blockchain is now an official word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Of course, the FinTech industry doesn’t have to look it up, but the dictionary now defines blockchain as a technology that enables the keeping of records of financial transactions in a digital database as part of a publicly accessible network.

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