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MARCH 29, 2018

Migrating would save financial institutions from building their own connections and would create access to new technologies and computing developments, Parker said — which is important since many of them are running on platforms that are 50 years old. Time for an update! The startup had to increase its fundraising goal from $1 million to $1.5

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MARCH 20, 2019

Asked about JPMorgan Chase’s recent embrace of blockchain and crypto, he termed it a “big legitimization of the superiority of the technology, but it is a closed network. The near-term road map for Nash, beyond cryptocurrency trading, is to move to securities (amid smart contracts) as licensing and compliance is achieved for each case.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Latin America fintech companies are creating solutions aimed at rethinking banking, lending, and payments in the region. We used the conventional definition of Latin America to include all countries in the following regions: South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. 500 Startups, Kaszek Ventures, Lead Edge Capital.

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APRIL 18, 2019

China is a key player in the development of blockchain technology, and home to some of the world’s largest and most influential companies in the space. Earlier this month, news broke that Chinese regulators were considering a ban on cryptocurrency mining (China is currently the world’s largest region for bitcoin mining).

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JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. The country’s initiative is well-known for its desire to harness both technology and information to make Singapore a better place to live. “A With an estimated population of just 5.47

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Why should organizations say “yes” to purchase order matching and “no” to cryptocurrencies? Israch said automating this process using technology like that which Tipalti just added to its AP suite, which can both reduce risk and slash the time spent manually completing these tasks by approximately 80 percent.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

” Such was the difficulty on the Ethereum cryptocurrency network this week, when a few hundred million dollars (no specific amount has been released yet) were frozen due to a vulnerability in the wallet. We’d say, don’t bank our future on cryptocurrency – but of course we already knew that. (Peanuts and sardines come to mind.)

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Goes to Tom Brown and the Second Curve Capital team for the inspiring message from Clemson CEO Jim Clements. The Smarter Bank Technology Award. THE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS. Except maybe they did partly.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

SoftBank’s capital firepower has helped it become the #2 unicorn investor in the world. Clearco provides growth capital for small businesses. The largest fintech deal SoftBank has backed in 2021 is cryptocurrency exchange FTX ’s $900M Series B-II in July. into working capital financing company Greensill in 2019.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

It is a notable pivot from Amazon’s IP strategy, where the playbook has been to build, patent, and keep proprietary technology in-house to fuel Amazon’s marketplace. FIS is also one of the biggest providers of core banking processing and has integrations with Q2 technologies. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Both have access to significant financial capital to scale far beyond what’s available to even well-funded startup challengers. Existing startups like the UK’s Revolut are also looking to expand in the region. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Cryptocurrencies suffered through a rough day in mid-June, when prices plummeted fast during a few hours and wiped out a total of $15 billion in value. billion) for its investors in the biggest technology IPO Europe has seen as of this summer. Crytpo’s Big Flash Crash. percent on the day. million users, up from 9.2 billion euros.

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That is, suppose that the blockchain state has regions A and B, where few or no nodes are processing both A and B. Additionally, layer 1 can still improve on reducing latency; if layer 1 is slow, the only strategy for achieving very low latency is state channels , which often have high capital requirements and can be difficult to generalize.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Stemming from the broader theme of globalization comes localization — the practice of serving local markets and regions. It also tied with cryptocurrency for the most new winners at 11. It also includes companies like Cambridge Mobile Telematics and Shift , which sell technology to reinsurers and insurance brokers.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While historically a “pen and pencil” business, technology has begun to push the global real estate market into digitized approaches. In this analysis, we dig into how blockchain technology could change the real estate industry, and the areas where we’re already seeing its impact. GET the 47-page blockchain TRENDS report.

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JUNE 30, 2019

No doubt by now most payments watchers are familiar with Libra , the Facebook plan to bring a new global cryptocurrency to market that seemingly seeks to do nothing less than upend global banking. dollar, she noted, but is far less liquid for other currencies tied to regions as far-flung as Latin America or Southeast Asia. “If

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

But capital brings those concepts to life. And venture capital funding is up in the third quarter versus a year ago, although first round and seed funding activity has lagged, and investors seem to be interested in keeping their powder dry for relatively well-established companies. That’s the highest level since 2004.

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MAY 15, 2019

With recent advances in blockchain, cryptocurrency, contactless payments, and more, finance is primed for disruption. DBS launched its Singapore innovation lab to break out of its “traditional banking mindset to think, behave, and deliver more like a technology company,” according to Neal Cross, chief innovation officer.

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JUNE 18, 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. The New Cryptocurrency — Libra. Or does it? – Dan Schulman, President and CEO, PayPal. The New Governance Structure — The Libra Association.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

14) may mark a vocal show of support from the 22 companies left in the consortium behind the would-be cryptocurrency that seeks to remake the global financial system, fostering financial inclusion on a global scale for more than 1 billion individuals. If one is going to hold a wake, Geneva’s a picturesque place to do it. Today (Oct.

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