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Thailand to Tax Cryptocurrencies

Bank Innovation

Taxes on cryptocurrency? That’s what regulators in Thailand are planning to institute. According to a report by Nikkei Asian Review, after a cabinet meeting suggested that crypto traders could be charged with as much as 7% value added tax as well as up to 15% tax on capital gains.

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Libra Could Pose Tax Challenges In Europe

PYMNTS

With the idea of pegging Libra’s value to a basket of international currencies, Facebook ’s proposed cryptocurrency would bring tax challenges to European users, per tax lawyers. As a result, capital gains and losses would be created. This seems to us to be a significant barrier to wide adoption.”.

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Tech Center: EU’s Capital City Grows Tech Reputation

PYMNTS

Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. The city was ranked as a strong innovator by the latest edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS 2016). The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene.

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Blockchain Unchained: Paxos CEO Sees Expanded Role For Token-Based Digital Assets

PYMNTS

For its part, Paxos describes itself as a regulated financial institution that builds infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets. Hamstringing American Innovation. s ability as a country to effectively innovate. Innovation is going to keep happening. This is a really seismic shift.”.

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The Geopolitics of PSD2

Bank Innovation

understand that 1) massive amounts of European capital flow to the U.S. company owned servers and 3) regional jurisdictional data, payments and identity infrastructure is inevitable and the most effective way to manage those threats is by giving would-be-global European firms a competitive edge in the form of regulation.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

We must also keep our focus on protecting the 2017 tax cuts and, as always, monitoring and confronting credit union overreach. Lucas White: We need to continue to differentiate community banks and educate policymakers on why tiered and proportionate regulation is necessary. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Indian Tech Startups Broke Funding Records In 2018

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Last year, we saw some early-stage startups in the country explore innovative and creative solutions, but if you look at the quantum of the funding, it was the big players that attracted most of it,” he said. Part of the problem is a law in India stating that about a third of the money raised from angel investors must be paid as tax.

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