PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The Libra Association is petitioning the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority ( FINMA ) for a Swiss payment system license for its planned Libra cryptocurrency, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept. The social media giant wants to move forward and launch Libra in June despite global questioning and hesitation.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- Bank Innovation has released the agenda for its seventh annual fintech conference, and it is completely overhauled to enhance the event experience for attendees.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

What is the state of banking innovation today? Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? Each year, we poll the industry to find out.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2018

What is the state of banking innovation today? This year, the pressure for banks to innovate is high, as banks no longer […]. Each year, we poll the industry to find out.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Amid the announcement of a new cryptocurrency – that would be Libra – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which operates as global regulatory firm based in Paris with a membership roster of countries such as China and the United States, has said it will boost its examination of digital currencies with an eye on money laundering.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell revealed that Facebook has spoken to the central bank about its upcoming cryptocurrency, called Libra. There’s just a tremendous amount of innovation going on out there,” he said. But Powell believes the social media giant will overcome any issues before Libra is launched.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Cryptocurrencies continued to dip on the heels of various regulatory actions focused on trading activities and exchanges. The specific directive from William Galvin, the state’s head securities regulator, commands that those firms abandon the sale of what have been termed “unregistered securities.” Same alarms, different week.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that come from creative endeavor. As has been well-documented in this space, the damper on activity tied to cryptos has extended to social media. And patents?

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

Dutch bank Rabobank announced it will not proceed with its plans for a cryptocurrency wallet called Rabobit. After careful consideration with our customers in mind, we recently decided that now is not the time to develop the idea further and bring it to the next phase of innovation,” a Rabobank spokesperson told The Next Web.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney said Facebook’s newly-announced cryptocurrency, Libra, can’t be the same unregulated type of service that Facebook is, according to a report by Reuters. Unlike social media … the terms of engagement for innovations such as Libra must be adopted in advance of any launch.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this week stood by its move to stop a bitcoin exchange-traded fund, citing “unpersuasive” arguments as to how the ETF would be protected from any market manipulation. Nor was the SEC convinced investors would be protected from manipulation in the underlying asset class.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

fintech firm, Bittrex, and South Korean app developer, Dunamu, an affiliate of the country’s largest messaging platform, Kakao, have teamed up to launch a new, massive cryptocurrency exchange platform in South Korea.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

For years, throughout the volatility of cryptocurrency values, some industry experts have assured investors and innovators that blockchain is the disruptor in which the market should place its faith. But the company’s website — and all social media accounts — suddenly disappeared, as did the money investors placed in the company.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets. EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Much hype and hope surrounds the adoption of cryptocurrencies — bitcoin among them as the marquee name in the space, of course — beyond the Wild West of speculative trading that exists now. Favor has met with disfavor, and bitcoin now trades at $3,990 — a bit above nadirs around $3,400 and well off highs that neared $20,000.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

“As new technology advances bring innovation, we need to be careful that the impact of this is progressive and does not create barriers…”. The first 3,000 of those new moderators were announced last spring, in the days and weeks that followed a rash of suicides that were posted on the social media site. “If

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

CNBC recently reported that blockchain technology – the very tech that brought us the decentralized cryptocurrency Bitcoin – is set to go mainstream. But consider how marketers felt when the Internet first became a thing, or email, or social media. This gives users more speed, lower costs, higher security, and fewer errors.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded. In 2017, in the United States, overall VC funding -- a barometer of startup activity and appeal.Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Time is running out to apply for Bank Innovation’s DEMOvation Challenge, in which fintech startups demo before a crowd of conference attendees in hopes of earning their vote and walking away with prizes. The application deadline is Friday, February 8. Apply here.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2018

Long-time fintech analysts have low expectations for Facebook's newly unveiled blockchain initiative to be headed by PayPal's former president. Further, analysts suspect the effort might not center on using blockchain to offer financial services on the Facebook platform. "[I]

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

In a Financial Times opinion piece, Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes contends that the social media platform’s Libra cryptocurrency could move power into the wrong hands. At the same time, he noted that regulators should not underrate the disruptive potential of the cryptocurrency. Carney said, according to reports.

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Lex Sokolin

JUNE 24, 2019

Second, the color sticks out like the red alarms we all associate with a dopamine kick from our social media and smartphone interactions. The stereotype is that since public services do not need to compete in capitalism, they are poorly managed and not innovative. Loud Designs Let’s take the former easier point.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“It is scheduled for release in the first half of 2020 by the very same people who had to explain themselves in front of legislators in the United States and the European Union on the threats to our democracies resulting from their handling of personal data on their social media platform,” Mersch said. He said to forget the 1.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

The “half-full” view is that consumers’ ability to more precisely control who can access their data and show up in their news feeds is an innovation that will help keep the value of the platform strong for both advertisers and consumers. Yes, WeChat is the exception to that rule, but so is China and how WeChat started.).

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 20, 2016

Consumers have grown accustomed to a faster, more secure world and expect payment solutions to follow suit. Because of the need for fast, secure transactions over inherently personal and often insecure devices, there is growing interest in biometric verification payment systems. Cryptocurrency is often lauded as the future of payments.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Select Investors: New Enterprise Associates, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, World Innovation Lab, SoftBank Group, Workday Ventures. Circle Internet Financial.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We remember his architecting the legendary Bank of America and Security Pacific merger on the West Coast. Award – goes to CNBC’s Jim Cramer , who lamented that banks should have been innovating offerings like those delivered by PayPal and Square. The “What the Hell Are Bankers Doing?” billion, Kalamazoo, Mich.).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

Social media firms count subscribers in much the same way. News came this week from Ripple, which has a presence in both the cryptocurrency and blockchain realms, that 13 more financial institutions have signed on RippleNet. The same mindset holds true, too, as businesses grow.

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