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Bitcoin Daily: Hawaii Debuts Digital Currency Lab; Ripple Launches Live X-Border Payments With Thailand’s DeeMoney

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Thai FinTech firm DeeMoney is teaming with enterprise blockchain solution Ripple to facilitate quicker and less expensive cross-border money transfers, according to an announcement. DeeMoney is using RippleNet to process inbound payments coming into Thailand as of now, and it is the first non-bank institution in the country to use RippleNet.

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A Roadie For Everyone

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The co-founder of the FinTech firm Kabbage did something unusual when he found himself with a box full of broken bathroom tiles that were about to put him off schedule by three days. Bigger ticket items are now also eligible for $10,000 worth of insurance, due to Roadie’s new partnership with UPS Capital Insurance Agency.

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FinDEVr Live: OnDeck’s APIs Connect Your Small Businesses Customers with Financing

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from the University of Hawaii, an M.S. Rice was an early senior technologist and led credit product development at Bill Me Later, Inc. from July 2005 until it was acquired by PayPal, Inc., a subsidiary of eBay, Inc., in October 2008. She led Credit Underwriting including Global Credit Technology at PayPal, Inc. Rice holds a B.A.

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Vacation Rental Startup Vacasa Clinches Funding

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Of that tally, FinTech was just about … everything, with more than 97 percent of the total. The biggest investment of the week came in the form of 51credit.com, where the Chinese credit card management outfit garnered $84 million from Harvest Capital and Yintai Group. We’re launching Hawaii and Montana later this year.

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Finovate Alums Are Top Tech Startup Fundraisers in Four States

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The survey also did not include from Alaska or Hawaii, which had no qualifying startups. Total Capital Raised: $223.63 Total Capital Raised: $43 million. Total Capital Raised: $91.5 Total Capital Raised: $238.65 The survey did not include debt funding and companies had to have raised at least $5 million.