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Groupon Teams Up With Redeam To Expand Worldwide Experiences

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“By integrating with their technology, we’re delivering more tools and capabilities for these merchants and operators to sell more tickets while delivering a great experience for our customers.”. Hundreds of resellers are part of the Redeam global platform, including popular attractions, theme parks, museums and more.

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Some Restaurants Opt For A Long Winter’s Nap

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And restaurant operators are aware. We want restaurants to work so badly that we are willing to lie to ourselves,” Heather Mojer, co-owner and beverage director at Boston-based Big Dipper Hospitality Group , operator of the Café Du Pays, Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and State Park restaurants, wrote in an Instagram post. “We

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Portugal's SIBS Takes Payments Platform International

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The Instant Payments Solution platform from SIBS, launched in 2018 to ensure instant payments processing at a national level, is now also providing these operations between European financial institutions. In the U.S.,

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Cybersecurity Firm Cybereason Snags Another $200M From SoftBank

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The new funding will be used to boost the company’s operations, with a focus on global growth. Boston-based Cybereason has 500 employees, with offices in Tel Aviv, Tokyo, London and Sydney, as well as additional presence on all continents. Founded in 2012, Cybereason boasts distribution in all major global markets.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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Meanwhile, Visa said that crypto-banking platform operator Ternio had joined the payments giant’s Fast Track program as a cryptocurrency-focused enablement partner. The Federal Reserve said this year that its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency.

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Central Banks See Digital Fiat As Complement To Cash, Not Replacement

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The report and its objectives (with foundational principles for CBDCs) was done in collaboration between the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, Sveriges Riksbank, the Swiss National Bank and the BIS. In an interview with Karen Webster published Monday (Oct.

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Australia Central Bank Sees No ‘Public Policy’ Case For CBDC (For Now)

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But: The bank is keeping an eye on the experiences and progress of other nations, and still is researching its own technological and “policy implications” of wholesale forms of CBDC. In at least some nod to the technicalities, back in January, the central bank envisioned that the digital currency might be issued via blockchain platform.

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