PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Thomson Reuters is joining a consortium that includes some of the largest financial institutions around the world working to determine how to use blockchain technology in global financial markets. It’s also interested in exploring blockchain for foreign exchange clearing and settlement.

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MARCH 30, 2018

tax deadline approaches, CNBC reported. The funding will be used for developing the startup’s coin and blockchain. Youbit’s operating company, Yapian Corp., Bitcoin fell below $7,000 on Thursday (March 29) – and analysts expect sales of bitcoin and other cryptos to increase as the April U.S. as of 11:13 p.m.,

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Kadena has announced the launch of an upgraded version of its blockchain solution to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The “Kadena Scalable Permissioned Blockchain” is now available on Azure Marketplace for free. If a voluntary fund cannot be established, a transactional tax should be imposed to fund the initiative.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

With the treasury market for S&P 500 companies valued at $2.3 Treasury desks will diversify money market and CD portfolios into these assets as digital assets are better understood and regulated, thereby improving risk/reward profiles,” Ehrlich said. Ehrlich said stablecoins, including the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

which the institution plans to deploy in its corporate payments operation. According to blockchain and cryptocurrency company BitRail , JPMorgan’s announcement was certainly a validating moment for the industry. BitRail doesn’t yet operate in the B2B payments space. ” Confusion, Doubt Remain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Ether, for instance, seems to have dropped in value, just as many organizations that had previously raised funds in Ether via ICO “cash out” so as to finance their operations and pay for expenses, Bloomberg said. ICO market.” It’s another gap in the market giving rise to FinTech firms addressing this issue.

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Bussman Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As I have written about before , we are in the middle of a sea change in terms of how commercial markets are organized. Up to now the blockchain discussion in the enterprise space has generally been about efficiency gains – about bringing down the costs of existing processes. This blog post first appeared in Forbes. All together now.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

Avanti Financial Group said in a press release that it has received permission from the Wyoming Division of Banking to begin operating in the state as a bank as early as October and plans to offer a real-time settlement solution for corporate treasurers. The new banking options are largely built around blockchain technologies.

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Bussman Advisory

DECEMBER 13, 2017

2017 was a year of tremendous growth for blockchain, though not in the expected ways. At the beginning of this year, I and others predicted that 2017 would be the year that blockchain moved from proof-of-concepts into production. Companies will focus on changing business models as blockchain begins to transform market structures.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

million in the largest investment round ever for a FinTech that operates exclusively in the continent. Blockchain. Cambridge Blockchain. With operations across Africa, Cellulant offers a digital accounts receivable solution with integrated payment reminder, collection, settlement and reconciliation capabilities.

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CB Insights

MARCH 21, 2018

In the energy industry, blockchain applications are growing increasingly common. The blockchain ledger is being used to reduce transaction costs, pinpoint origins of energy, and increase the efficiency of exchanges. Live briefing: BLOCKCHAIN TRENDS IN 2018. Join us for a deep dive into blockchain in 2018. First Name.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sleek offers a B2B service that enables startups and young businesses to incorporate and operate, targeting firms in Singapore and Hong Kong. The company also connects its clients to accounting, tax and regulatory services, with plans to expand its team and develop new features with the funding. Huckleberry.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

A 2019 study underscored this point, discovering that even though the AML software market is slated to grow 15.25 percent from 2019 to 2026, the technologies’ high costs and lack of skilled IT professionals prevent the market from doing so more quickly. Cryptocurrency and Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

BankiFi operates APIs to enable banking clients access to a range of business banking infrastructure to augment their own small business and corporate banking operations. Operating out of New Zealand, Hnry offers gig economy workers tax administration technology that has just caught the attention of investors to the tune of $1.35

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MARCH 2, 2018

Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7 For markets like the U.K., The company operates a working capital and trade finance solution for companies to secure financing to power global trade. Blockchain. AgriDigital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

Funderbeam operates a blockchain-powered funding and trading platform for the private sector in an effort to address the small business venture and capital gap. The Series A funding will be used to further its market presence in the U.S. Based in Ireland, Immedis provides payroll and tax services to multinational corporations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Several global companies recently moved forward with efforts to introduce blockchain technology as a tool to enable smoother cross-border transactions. And Axis is not the only financial institution testing the potential application of Ripple’s blockchain-based solutions. News from the cross-border space.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The magazine, via columnist David Trainer, said that Overstock took its place among last month’s most dangerous stocks and could in fact be the “next victim of the retail market.”. That comes even as Overstock’s top line has been growing, indicating operational pressures. Some numbers belie the pressures at hand.

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MARCH 8, 2017

“The word ‘align’ was really about the layer of functionality aligning between different [payment] rails, and as the company progresses and as we scale, we feel like the name Veem best reflects where we are in the market,” Forzley recently told PYMNTS. It’s a big world, with so many corridors and so many markets.”. he said. “The

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Hodlers have hodled through a hard fork in the blockchain, which spawned Bitcoin Cash on Aug. A hard fork is when the blockchain splits into two separate chains due to a radical change in protocol — often introduced to address a cybersecurity vulnerability. Like the FCA said: highly speculative.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The stock market has been sluggish and weak — and getting more so — as it is looking increasingly like the coronavirus will shut down large segment of the world’s second largest economy for the immediately foreseeable future. Meanwhile, McDonald’s has shuttered eateries in five Chinese cities and is launching new health protocols.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Headlines swirl around the price of bitcoin and its cryptocurrency cousins, around psychological barriers tied to $10,000 thresholds, around raids on suspect operators, around tax rates in South Korea and hacks of crypto exchanges. Operating as a U.S. The actual money movement still demands bank authorization.

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MARCH 5, 2018

game have been drawing increased scrutiny from regulators … everyone from exchange operators to miners. market is a given. ICOs have been pegged for everything from tax evasion to a long list of incidents where hackers have lured the unwitting into lost funds (not to mention technical glitches that have had the same impact).

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JULY 27, 2018

The Series D funding will be used to accelerate growth in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, the company announced, while it will also explore entering new markets that include Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Cybersecurity startup Siemplify operates in the S.O.A.R. ScaleFactor.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

This rogue group also voiced fears that bitcoin’s strong position in the market could be usurped by an alternative digital currency. Governments the world over are struggling with bitcoin and blockchain; regulatory frameworks for conventional financial systems are not applicable to digital currencies. The payoff is 12.5

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As the peaks and valleys of blockchain hype continue to rise and fall, more doubt has surfaced over the future of distributed ledger technology, particularly in the area of B2B payments. Analysts point to the challenges associated with adoption and implementation of blockchain-powered B2B payment solutions as a key hurdle for the technology.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

The market map below categorizes the Fintech 250 companies based on core area of focus. Top Exits through IPO: ZhongAn Insurance IPO in Q3’17 ($11B market cap at end of first day of trading). market cap and today has a market cap of $20B+. Capital Markets & Institutional Trading. Accounting & Finance.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

I realize this because several blockchain industry analysts have put out absolutely fantastic work that should be your reference for the coming year. There’s a lot to say about the overlap of Fintech and blockchain, but let’s find the very edge of the frontier and focus right there. something between equity voting and dividend yield).

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NCR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Meanwhile, in Indonesia, many consumers moved back to cash after the government launched a plan to tackle tax evasion by tracking all credit card transactions. ” In the fintech market, one of the most notable trends of 2016 has been an increase in worldwide competition. Will 2017 be the year of blockchain?

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MAY 14, 2018

However, it’s most efficient for them to be paid – because, after all, they too play a critical role in operations and supply chain. Emerging markets are wary of adopting anything too cutting-edge, so focusing on new technologies like blockchain could jeopardize relationships with the banks in those markets.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

But regardless of all that, $1 trillion of value has indeed materialized and grown on blockchain-based financial networks since 2008. They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. Like taxes.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

But regardless of all that, $1 trillion of value has indeed materialized and grown on blockchain-based financial networks since 2008. They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. Like taxes.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. Incumbents are not standing still and are acting to protect their market share. Table of contents: Market map: the startups disrupting retail & commercial banking. why profitability won’t come easy. Key takeaways.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The brothers are aware of the security issues surrounding bitcoin and recommend that exchange operators and their regulators need to look closely at “multisig” security services, which require many people to sign off on a transaction. Physical bitcoin is stored in an offline wallet for which the private key is sealed.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Blockchain and crypto companies may be operating with cutting-edge technology, but in the back-office, accounting and bookkeeping strategies are stuck in the stone age. There is a huge gap right now, and traditional accounting software doesn’t integrate with blockchains and cryptocurrencies.”.

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Alex Jimenez

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As Russian banks don’t have a mandate for Open Banking yet, their main driver was improving operations. They found the platform to be flexible and very quick to market. She gave the example of tax auditing and dating apps sharing the same solution. I missed a great session on Blockchain but was able to catch a replay here.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

As such, there’s a need to simplify all of these complex finance routes, and blockchain technology seems to be the anchor for this. By 2020, over 80 percent of bankers expect to see commercial adoption of blockchain, according to a recent study conducted by Infosys Finacle. Big transformations of this scale can take quite a while.

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