PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

Despite direct exposure to the region, they remain unaware of the GDPR requirements. FinTech Firms Eye Bank Charters. And in the wake of the announcement late last month that FinTechs will be able to apply for banking licenses with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, caution abounds. Japan Eyes Cryptos, Yet Again.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They tie in to public key storage offerings, and the tech giant has said that the offerings apply to smartphones and software The site maintained that the trademarks may be tied to offering storage for cryptocurrencies. The value of the transaction was not disclosed, reported Coindesk last week.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

“If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Opportunity, he noted, abounds. Opportunity, he noted, abounds.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In Berlin, where last week saw a two-day meeting of financial officials from Europe, central bankers discussed digital payments and the confines of digital, national currencies. The ECB commentary, we contend, solidifies at least some regional approaches to CBDCs, but retail use cases may be gaining favor.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. Singapore stepped onto the global stage as a world leader in blockchain innovation in recent months. United States.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Zug is a small town near Zürich with only about 30,000 residents, yet it is impacting the FinTech world in a big way. One such company in the Zug region is crypto loyalty firm qiibee. But, while the region is conducive to technology and business, it does come with a high cost of living. dollars).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The importance of procuring those licenses – to offer web-based services in a manner that dovetails with and mirrors the products and functions that might be on offer from traditional FIs – was underscored by the news that the group behind the Facebook Libra cryptocurrency has applied for a payments license in Switzerland.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. Oh, what a mere 12 months can do.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Most, the bureau noted, involved requests for wire transfers into bank accounts in Hong Kong and China, though 79 nations were identified within these requests, reports said. businesses last year due to cybercrime , a figure that marks a 22 percent increase in cybercrime in the nation, reports from Get Safe Online and Action Fraud said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2018

“What I am hearing from the ecosystem out there is that it seems to be very friendly” and that regulators understand the blockchain tech and the cryptocurrencies. Reuters has noted that thus far, there are no pan-EU rules that govern crowdfunding, as there exists a patchwork of rules that vary by nation.

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NCR

AUGUST 18, 2017

It started out as the rails for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but has evolved as a technology that can transform many legacy business paradigms in the banking sector. A whitepaper produced by the UK-based FinTech Network in cooperation with BNY Mellon and Rabobank highlighted payments as one of the primary applications for the technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Indian FinTech Cashaa and the country's United Multistate Credit Cooperative Society teamed up to launch what they say is the world's first cryptocurrency bank branch through a joint-venture bank called Unicas, according to a release. The operation also will provide traditional banking services, according to the backers.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. This report is a collection of everything we know about Amazon’s foray into banking, financial services, and fintech. adults and 6.4M

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