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APRIL 18, 2019

Cryptocurrency consortium Panxora is rolling out a new solution aimed at helping organizations preserve the funds they have raised through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). However, 83 percent of the 694 ICOs that did not list on an exchange or report capital were found to be inactive after only four months.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Binance , Nigeria’s cryptocurrency market, has seen sign-ups surge 50 percent so far in 2020. Nigeria has latched on to the cryptocurrency trend, boasting 35 million unbanked adults who possess mobile phones, the vast majority being women. Fraud has become a concern with cryptocurrency around the world.

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JULY 17, 2020

It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. Robotic process automation (RPA) firm UiPath has raised $225 million in a Series E round led by Alkeon Capital Management. SBA: EIDL Emergency Grant Program Runs Out Of Money .

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MAY 25, 2023

Promethium Ember Capital, (“PEC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Promethium, has become the first digital asset custody provider to come under federal regulation. PEC was approved as a special purpose broker-dealer (“SPBD”) for digital asset securities. The significance of this is two-fold.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Capital One saw an outage on Friday (Nov. Capital One is experiencing a technical issue impacting customer money movement, including direct deposits, and the ability for some customers to access accounts. Capital One saw an outage on Friday (Nov. We greatly apologize for the inconvenience,” Capital One said in a tweet on Friday.

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MARCH 24, 2020

In other news, Polychain Capital and Bain Capital in addition to HDR Global Trading were among participants in a $3 million Series A round for Coin DCX , an exchange based in India, CoinDesk reported. The fundraising comes only weeks following the reversal of a banking ban for digital currency companies.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

24) it has temporarily suspended trading in the securities of Canada-based company First Bitcoin Capital Corp. The move on the part of the SEC comes as the government agency has already signaled it would regulate the cryptocurrency market. The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday (Aug. 7 of this year.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The cryptocurrency market is continuing its descent with the market hitting a new ten-month low after the price of Ether declined and regulators in the U.S. halted trading in two securities that are tied to cryptocurrency. New York Time Friday (Sept. percent at 5:00 p.m. 7) while Bitcoin dropped 2.1

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AUGUST 29, 2019

A federal grand jury indicted 33-year-old software engineer Paige Thompson, a former employee of Capital One, for the crime. Capital One stored its data with Amazon’s cloud division, called Amazon Web Services , and Thompson accessed the data from there. Thompson’s indictment cites more than 30 victims, which includes Capital One.

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TheGuardian

JUNE 10, 2021

Growth of crypto-assets threatens financial stability and could increase risks faced by banks, they warn Global regulators have said cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin should come with the toughest bank capital rules to avoid putting the wider financial system at risk should their value collapse suddenly. Continue reading.

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JULY 13, 2020

Proposed amendments to existing bills want to classify cryptocurrencies as goods rather than currencies. ” But Sung Tae-yoon , an economist with Yonsei University, warned that taxing cryptocurrencies could slow the country’s tech markets.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

MovieCoin aims to deploy blockchain, smart contract and cryptocurrency technologies in a wide range of use cases, all geared toward the global movies and entertainment market — one that Grand View Research recently estimated to be worth nearly $1.15 trillion by 2025.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blockchain and digital currency investment firm Pantera Capital said in a report that after analyzing numbers from the cryptocurrency exchange iBit, it appears that PayPal and Cash App have bought almost 100 percent of all newly-issued bitcoins. PayPal is the biggest tech firm to accelerate its move into the cryptocurrency space.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Mint’s decision to phase out production of pennies next year, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a California-based venture capital firm, said money will be digital by 2030, Bloomberg News reported. There will be other entrants in this category,” Haun told the news service. On the heels of the U.S.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Turbulent market conditions have rattled capital markets tech funding, which fell 84% YoY in Q3’22. . These technologies enable capital markets firms not only to adapt to market volatility, but also to pursue new growth opportunities. ESG reporting requirements. Trade analytics and execution. EQUITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Pizza Hut will now accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment at its stores in Venezuela, Cointelegraph reported. 27 that it was partnering with the pizza chain to process cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Binance Coin, Binance USD, Tether, Dash, Ether, Dai and XPT, Cryptobuyer’s native coin.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

BitPay , which is the world's largest provider of bitcoin and cryptocurrency services, has announced that mobile payments app Slide will now add cryptocurrency as a payment option, according to a press release. BDVH has partnered with Bitbond to introduce EURB to the Stellar network, the release stated.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, and a long-time market forecaster, said that when it comes to bitcoin , investors can’t see any wrong in the cryptocurrency, and predicted its value will ultimately be erased. Still, Winklevoss disagrees, telling CNBC that it’s not the right way to look at cryptocurrency.

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JULY 16, 2020

Blockchain initiative Teller has notched $1 million in a Framework Ventures-led seed capital to create a decentralized finance (DeFi) credit risk tool, according to an announcement. The bank will also start using the cryptocurrency for Hong Kong Monetary Authority transactions in September.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

Business for bitcoin ATM companies seems to be booming, with Coin ATM Radar estimating that there are now 4,213 cryptocurrency ATM machines around the globe, most only offering bitcoin. In other news, TurboTax has created a solution that allows users to import cryptocurrency transactions from Coinbase to TurboTax.

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AUGUST 23, 2020

In other news, Polychain Fund, the cryptocurrency fund of San Francisco's Polychain Capital, has attracted another $20 million in investments this year, according to a report from Finance Magnates. SEC filings show that the fund has a total of $300 million in assets overall now.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Chipper CEO Ham Serunjogi confirmed on Twitter the startup, which got its initial foothold in the market as a peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, has just wrapped up a $30 million Series B round of venture capital. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S. that focuses on early-stage firms, led the investment round. Stripe, the U.S.-based

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Chris Skinner

JULY 18, 2017

Now that it has burst, the interview seems quite prescient so, here it is … UBS interview with Chris Skinner Cryptocurrencies – digital currencies based on encryption – are in the midst of a bubble, but that should not overshadow the genuinely transformative change that is taking place within the financial services industry.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In retail news, it’s a good day to be Overstock.com. According to reports from CNBC, the market is reacting favorably to the news that Overstock’s subsidiary tZero is joining the business of trading digital coins. In a news release by Overstock, the company explained the system is compliant with both U.S.

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JUNE 21, 2019

The endless speculation over Facebook’s plans to build a new set of global payments rails and launch a global cryptocurrency comes to an end today with the official launch of Libra. By changing to the XRP digital currency, however, it forecasts lower operating costs along with the value of working capital it needs. Or does it?

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JANUARY 7, 2020

In other crypto news , cryptocurrency tax automation software TaxBit has raised $5 million in funding. Investors in the venture include TTV Capital, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Collaborative Fund, Winklevoss Capital, Valar Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Table Management, Album VC and more. . ”

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Aave , an Ethereum-based loan protocol, has raised $25 million in a funding round, according to a report from Crypto News. The round was led by Blockchain Capital, Standard Crypto, Blockchain.com Ventures and more. The money will be used to help Aave expand into the Asian market, and help it achieve more institutional adoption.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

In today’s top news, Grab celebrated solid recovery in its third quarter earnings report, and PayPal has introduced wallet services for cryptocurrencies. And resale marketplace ThredUp filed for an IPO. Grab’s Earnings Bouncing Back To Pre-COVID Numbers. PayPal Hops On The Crypto Bandwagon.

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JULY 16, 2019

France’s financial regulator is set to approve a wave of cryptocurrency-related firms in the country, subjecting them to new rules that include paying taxes and complying with capital requirements and consumer protections, according to a report by Reuters.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Salvation Army Western Territory is now accepting cryptocurrency donations, according to a press release. will be able to send bitcoin and ethereum donations to The Salvation Army using the Engiven ’s cryptocurrency donation platform, the release stated. Donors throughout the U.S.

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MAY 1, 2018

” Buffett has long been wary of bitcoin: He called the cryptocurrency a “mirage” back in 2014. ” In other news, Venezuela is looking to increase use of its Petro cryptocurrency, NewsBTC reported. But the coins do come with an important caveat: “Similar to other cryptocurrencies, the value of bacoin can be volatile.”.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Cryptocurrency markets plummeted after oil prices crashed and the stock market spiraled into another sell-off frenzy, according to reports on Monday (March 10). . Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by value, fell almost 10% in 24 hours and closed the week at $8,024, a new weekly low. per barrel. “For

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Bitcoin-related revenues stood at $43 million through the Cash App (which allows users to buy and sell the cryptocurrency), up from $37 million in the second quarter. The latest growth marks a bit of deceleration from previous quarters, where GPV had been 30 percent or more, and the stock dipped slightly in after-hours trading.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Bitcoin finished up its worst year yet, as the price of the popular cryptocurrency plummeted by over 80 percent over 2018, Coindesk reported. In addition, the digital currency’s total capitalization dropped by almost $700 billion. But the cryptocurrency ended 2018 with a price of just under $3,750.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Sequoia Capital, Tencent Holdings Ltd and DST Global are among its present backers. The news comes as consumers following stay-at-home mandates are harnessing online banking platforms to assist them in supervising their finances while steering clear of public spaces such as bank offices.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

12) that the federal government would be rolling out new regulations regarding cryptocurrency at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FCEN). interest in cryptocurrency is on the rise, as military contractors have begun to see its uses and the Federal Reserve seeing the potential in digital coins. In the U.S.,

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JANUARY 19, 2018

The hot topics in B2B venture capital these days are often cutting-edge technologies like blockchain and data analytics. Indeed, these spaces secured significant funding in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup. But a lesser-discussed market grabbed the largest investment of the week: logistics. Cybersecurity.

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