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Fed Exploring ‘Hypothetical’ Digital Currency

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In a speech delivered by webcast at the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said that the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is working with researchers at MIT to “build and test a hypothetical digital currency oriented to central bank uses.”.

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Perficient WIT Group Shares Advice for Women Taking a Job in Technology

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Hiral Shah , lead technical consultant, recently shared her thoughts on advocating for your work with BuiltIn Boston and Laura Kenny , Talent Acquisition Coordinator , wrote about in the article How Perficient Employees Slay Impostor Syndrome , a topic that everyone has the potential to experience. Lisa Hunter , national sales director.

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Amazon Sidewalk Eyes IoT Beyond The Connected Home

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The Sidewalk news comes as Amazon is slated to unveil new products and services at a virtual event later Thursday (Sept. Amazon watchers expect the event to (not surprisingly) emphasize the smart home. But he noted that Sidewalk would “struggle to match 5G’s national coverage.”

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Caesars Puts Stake In Online Betting Co DraftKings

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” Founded in 2012, Boston-based DraftKings offers daily fantasy sports contests across 11 professional sports and in eight countries, including the U.S., “We look forward to collaborating with Caesars Entertainment on creating the most innovative and engaging sports and entertainment products, and events, for our customers.”

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The 35 Biggest Banking, Mortgage & BankTech Events in 2023

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Below is our curated list of the best global banking tech events, conferences and trade shows in 2023. These are the largest events in the financial services industry geared towards banking technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy financial institutions and upstart banktech and fintech firms.

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Football Season To Kick Off New Payments Plays

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As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

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Helping Homeowners Access Home Equity Without Debt

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And this, Unison CEO Thomas Sponholtz told PYMNTS in a recent conversation has pretty much been in its terms of innovation in the world of homeownership financing since the mortgage was invented in 1192. ” Consumers, he noted, in this financial downturn were pegged by a black swan event in the form of a global health crisis.

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