Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Bankers see faster horses; technologists imagine cars I was chairing a conference on blockchain and distributed ledgers the other day. The audience were a mixture of start-ups and banks, and the speakers were talking about how they viewed the world of distributed ledger … The post The Finanser’s Week: 11th September – 17th September 2017 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Let's Talk Payments

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology was invented/created over eight years ago as an alternative means of payment through the mining of digital currency (Bitcoin) by solving cryptic equations. The.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Things we’re reading today include … World’s Central Banks Can’t Ignore the Bitcoin Boom, BIS Says The Bank of England can’t remain in its ‘Brexit’ parallel universe forever Exclusive: At least 16 million bank cardholders exposed to fraud risk over PIN loophole PwC UK partners take home less profits despite … The post Things worth reading: 18th September 2017 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Let's Talk Payments

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Financial technology has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last few years – with regard to the technology itself, the discovery of its use cases in making the.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

(The Paypers) Visa and Mastercard have been alerting financial institutions across the US about more than 200,000 credit cards stolen in Equifax’s data breach.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The natural strength and toughness of spider silk makes it one of the most complex and fascinating materials on earth. And with a little chemical enhancement, researchers just created a version that’s three times stronger and ten times tougher. Scientists from the UK and Italy recently investigated whether incorporating various nanomaterials – namely graphene and carbon nanotubes – into the biological protein structures of spiders could create a superpowered silk.

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

(The Paypers) Verif-y , an identity and credential verification platform, has announced the rollout of its token pre-sale followed by a crowdsale on October 5th.

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

(The Paypers) Huobi and OKCoin , two Chinese Bitcoin exchanges, have announced that they will stop yuan-denominated trading by the end of October 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

(The Paypers) Shopify has announced Shopcodes , a service that allows customers to view a product in a Shopify store by scanning the QR code.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

(The Paypers) Google has launched Tez , a new UPI-based mobile payments app on the Indian market, for in store, online and P2P payments.

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

(The Paypers) Litebit.eu , a Dutch cryptocurrency broker, has suffered two separate data breaches in the past six weeks.

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