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Bitcoin Daily: Slovakian Crypto Exchange Victim To A $1.6M Hack; Crypto Lender Cred Joins Visa's FinTech Fast Track Program

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Meanwhile, Visa has added crypto lender Cred to its roster of its FinTech Fast Track program, allowing for sped-up borrowing, payments and other such features, according to CoinDesk. And, Austrian software developer and compliance expert Blockpit acquired its biggest rival, a German firm called CryptoTax , according to a report from Tech.eu.

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What Payroll Innovation Says About Accountants’ Shifting Role

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FinTech solutions — including those that have disrupted the payroll sphere — have automated key financial functions for small businesses, and, in many cases, have taken away the traditional workload of a small business accountant. That’s particularly true when it comes to compliance and data security. In the U.K., In the U.K.,

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Bitcoin Daily: Slovakian Crypto Exchange Victim To A $1.6M Hack; Hong Kong's Diginex Raises $20M Ahead of Nasdaq Listing; Crypto Lender Cred Joins Visa's FinTech Fast Track Program; Austrian Crypto RegTech Blockpit Buys Competitor CryptoTax

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Meanwhile, Visa has added crypto lender Cred to its roster of its FinTech Fast Track program, allowing for sped-up borrowing, payments and other such features, according to CoinDesk. And, Austrian software developer and compliance expert Blockpit acquired its biggest rival, a German firm called CryptoTax , according to a report from Tech.eu.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend. Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7 Blockchain. AgriDigital.

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How Accountants-Turned-Advisors Can Manage The FinTech Deluge

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. “The accounting profession is rapidly transitioning from compliance to trusted advisor ,” he said in a recent interview, “and these tools will allow them to develop foresight with the client, rather than reporting only on what has happened after the fact — hindsight.”

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In Procure-To-Pay, Reg And Tech Evolve Together

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The rise of RegTech is not by chance: There is an undeniable link between regulatory changes and technological innovation, and that link has a profound impact on FinTech and the financial services market. Europe is an epicenter for both regulatory shifts and FinTech innovation. Tax fraud is a massive threat of corporates.

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Cannabis Logistics Finds Opportunity In Uncharted Territory: WAYV

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FinTech innovation is often a layered process, taking existing infrastructures and processes, and developing new tools to improve upon them. These markets have similar challenges to the legal marijuana sector: products that are regulated, expire and have unique needs in terms of compliance and shipping.

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