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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Looking Toward The Blockchain . The Charter Advantage .

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Financial services firm Figure Technologies, Inc. has sought a national bank charter from the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), which will let it meet “promises of efficiency, affordability and financial inclusion,” according to a Friday (Nov. 6) announcement.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The “MS Satoshi,” as the ship is to be named, is 804 feet and was bought rom a cruise ship company, according to the announcement. “The Crypto Cruise Ship” is getting ready to depart from the Mediterranean and anchor in the Gulf of Panama, according to an announcement. billion USDC in circulation, according to the announcement.

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JULY 31, 2020

Colin Walsh got lots of laughs five years ago when he talked of his intention to launch a financial technology (FinTech) startup. On Friday (July 31), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced Varo Bank has been granted its full-service national bank charter. the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Amid increasing demand for contactless delivery, Starship Technologies has rolled out a robot food delivery offering in Tempe, Arizona. Ryan Tuohy, who leads Starship Technologies’ business development, said in a statement, “The demand for contactless delivery has expanded exponentially in recent weeks. to 8:30 p.m.

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JULY 19, 2017

But the most significant revelation from the company’s earnings call yesterday may be that digital banking allows any bank to become national. Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group is making a significant digital push this quarter, and highlighted a number of areas this is benefiting the bank’s consumer business.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

government over the use of nationalism by the government in India to promote a domestic payments network there. ” Modi has said that using RuPay is akin to offering a service to the nation, given the fees associated with the use stay in India. payments technology companies,” according to Reuters.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

This week showed investor interest in B2B FinTech companies in international markets, as a trade finance platform in India and a human resources (HR)/payroll cloud software firm in the U.K. Zenoti said it fuels over 12,000 companies in more than 50 nations. The company has disbursed more than $36.5 landed funding rounds.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the end of last month, the CFPB sent orders to six large technology platforms offering payment services that directs them to provide information to the Bureau about their payments products and services and their collection and use of personal payments data. Comments must be received on or before December 6, 2021. .

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. The community bank provided nearly 480,000 PPP loans totaling more than $13 billion to businesses across the nation. “I

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ajay Banga, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Mastercard, is adamantly against any attempts to fracture the Global Payments Systems (GPS) into national domains, Financial Times (FT) reported on Sunday (Feb. Privacy-weary consumers could return to cash if governments push in the direction of nationalization of payments, Banga warned.

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APRIL 26, 2020

Corsight AI , an Israeli tech firm, raised $5 million as it develops technology to recognize people’s faces through masks, goggles or plastic coverings, according to a Reuters report. The money came from investors Awz Ventures, a Canadian firm focused on intelligence and security technology. The greatest concern is whether the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Leafbuyer Technologies, the cannabis technology company, announced Thursday (November 8) it has acquired Greenlight Technologies, a California-based application development company. In a press release , Leafbuyer said the deal follows on a letter of intent the company released on September 24 of this year.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Carrboro, North Carolina-based chain has used its technology-first strategy to get, keep and grow its customer base – even while its stores were shut down early in the pandemic. Fleet Feet has come up with proprietary technology to address that. More than one million Fleet Feet customers have used the technology.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

China revealed that it is creating a national cyberattack database and will require telecom firms, internet companies and domain name providers to report any threats to it. This new law is yet another way that Chinese authorities are working to protect core infrastructure and private companies against cyberattacks.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A recent study from PwC found that 47 percent of companies had experienced fraud at least once in the past two years, with a grand total of $42 billion in funds stolen over this period of time. Technologies like video onboarding and AI have shown promise in facing this threat, but each is vulnerable when deployed alone.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

M-DAQ, a cross-border transaction platform for e-commerce and technology companies, has raised $147.4M HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING? The company maintains crucial ties with national exchanges and global FX banks. The company maintains crucial ties with national exchanges and global FX banks.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Creating a combined company that will lead to an addition of over 300 employees to its European operations, California-based Bird has purchased shared eScooter company Circ. Circ is a top shared eScooter company in the Middle East and Europe.

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MARCH 3, 2020

The blockchain for the Marshallese sovereign (SOV) digital currency will be developed with Algorand technology, according to an announcement. Algorand created a permissionless, open source and pure proof-of-stake blockchain technology. The supply of SOV will be set to increase at 4 percent yearly to stop inflation from occurring.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Passport, company that’s managing much of the technical aspects of how people pay to use public transportation resources in cities like London, Miami and Los Angeles, has just raised $43 million. The money, from Bain Capital Ventures, will go to help the company expand its payment and transaction services nationally and internationally.

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JUNE 12, 2020

Palantir Technologies , the Palo Alto, California-based Big Data analytics company, is planning to go public soon and could be trading as early as this fall, sources told Bloomberg News. As opposed to every other tech company in the Valley, our plans, if anything, were stronger.”.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Estonia has shelved plans to develop its own national cryptocurrency after the idea prompted criticism by banking authorities and Mario Draghi, the Italian economist and president of the European Central Bank. In 2012, more than €7.3 billion in securities from Russia were processed through the Estonian financial system.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 17, 2022

As technology buyers, banking executives need to up their game on tech purchases and technology performance management. For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. Tech companies trying to support a bank stack have no easy task.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Payments company PayPal recently acquired Chinese payment platform GoPay, and it wants to continue to complete such deals, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The company wants to pursue acquisitions throughout 2020. The GoPay deal, which was the acquisition of a 70 percent stake in the company, was completed Dec.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Banks are typically required to establish direct links with financial institutions (FIs) in other nations to make or receive cross-border payments. However, the sheer number of cross-border payments belies the challenges that individuals and companies face when conducting them.

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JUNE 8, 2020

United Kingdom officials gave a California software company access to the private personal data of millions of British residents to answer questions around COVID-19, CNBC reported. Also published with the document are 23 pages of similar contracts with Google, Microsoft Corp.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

11) it teamed up with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to publish a new resource to help enterprises and government organizations enhance their cybersecurity risk analysis , reporting and decision-making. ” and “What activities matter the most and should be prioritized?”

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

First National Bank and Trust Company is planning the launch of a digital small business lending portal and has tapped a partner to create the solution. The firm’s CEO Greg Schreacke said it is “pleased” to partner with First National Bank and “to offer our cloud-based digital lending solutions to their customers.”.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Citigroup is gearing up to launch a digital consumer bank that will be national in scope and will arrive within the next three years. Following on the heels of the financial crisis, Reuters reported the company pull away from having locations in smaller cities, as well as Texas, in an effort to slash costs.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For its customer satisfaction terminals, HappyOrNot notched $25 million in funding that is said to be used to keep building its customer base and technology. The company produces hardware to record if customers are satisfied by allowing them to tap a face and software to analyze the data, according to reports. The company has record 1.3

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Meet Shark Wheel, a company that has literally invented a wheel that’s not round and added some innovation to the eCommerce space by partnering with a new one-click checkout system. It makes skateboards, contributed new wheel designs to farming, printing, luggage companies and the U.S. Talk about reinventing the wheel.

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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. Roughly 7,000 multinational corporations have made Singapore a home base for their headquarters, making it the fifth ranked country in the world for company headquarter density.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

federal district court in December 2020 seeking to block the OCC from granting a national bank charter to Figure Technologies Inc. The lawsuit represented the CSBS’s third challenge to the OCC’s authority to issue special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to non-depository fintech companies or to uninsured deposit-taking fintechs.

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MAY 20, 2019

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has proposed a national development fund to help invest in social issues, digitization of the economy, education and transportation, according to a report by Reuters. Under the new deal, the two companies will extend their current project in the Czech Republic and will enter Slovakia.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

digital companies, and France backed down after America delayed tariffs on $1.3 Bloomberg reported this week that the French Finance Ministry has now told Big Tech companies such as Facebook and Amazon that they will be on the hook for digital taxes starting this month. billion of French goods.

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MARCH 23, 2017

The maxim has stayed the same in the ensuing decades, but the technology has changed. Stealing money for the sake of getting rich with the taps of a few keystrokes is one thing — an actor, or band of actors, chasing vulnerabilities in technology to make off with millions. Acting not against individuals, but another nation?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Blockchain is increasingly being separated from cryptocurrency, with an eye toward disparate use cases — some done at the national level. The company had been focused on creating online voting platforms, and had processed roughly 1.9 However, anecdotally, not all is rosy in blockchain land.

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