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This week’s podcast: Do we need a National Financial Technology Commission?

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In this podcast, we are joined by Tom Vartanian, who leads the Financial Regulation & Technology Institute of George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, to discuss his proposal for the President and Congress to establish a National Financial Technology Commission.

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Czech Banks To Invest $260M Into National Development Fund

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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. million) to put into the fund. The association said the fund should be independent and fully professional. .

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Bitcoin Daily: People’s Bank Of China To Certify Digital Payment Products; Korean Security Agency Supports Blockchain Projects With $9M Fund

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The People’s Bank of China announced that it will certify 11 types of financial technology hardware and software used for digital payment and blockchain services. In other news, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) announced that it plans to support blockchain-related projects in 2020 with 10.5

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JAGGAER Joins Forces With TransferMate On ‘Source to Settle’

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Clients of JAGGAER who harness TransferMate for cross-border transactions will be able to reserve a real-time exchange rate before transmitting the funds to a TransferMate account in their own nation or jurisdiction, the announcement stated. TransferMate, in turn, will deliver the money to the recipient in the target nation.

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Mastercard Leads Investment In Mobile FinTech Mobeewave

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Maxime de Nanclas, COO and co-founder of Mobeewave, said, “Securing strategic funding from organizations with a proven track record of supporting innovation, especially financial technologies, will enable Mobeewave to continue to grow, [and] develop new product offerings and business partnerships.

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EU To Crack Down On Stablecoin Projects

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Valdis Dombrovskis , the EU’s executive vice president of the European Commission for an Economy that Works for People, told attendees of the Digital Finance Outreach 2020 , a series of events for the 27-nation bloc on financial technology companies, that Europe must become the leader in crafting rules for digital finance.

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SoFi Sees Investor Accounts Double Thanks To Fractional Shares

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The company said the account is secure and offers rewards for savers with higher interest relative to the national average of transactional accounts. Our partnership with Samsung is really an extension of our ability to reach people to help them achieve financial independence and get their money right,” Noto told the network. “Our

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