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Bitcoin Daily: Turkey To Test Digital Currency In 2021; Japan Prepares To Issue CBDC; Bitcoin Crests $28,000

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The update will help to alleviate a common issue with bitcoin in that there were few user-friendly, secure methods to buy, sell and use cryptocurrency in general. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez might want to make his city a hub for crypto at the government level, a report from CoinDesk says.

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Visa Expands Contactless Public Transportation Payments Due To Pandemic

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Visa and Cubic have already launched contactless systems in cities around the world, including London, Miami, New York, Sydney and Vancouver. Also, the two companies plan to “pursue joint research and development and innovation projects to move the future of urban mobility forward,” the release states.

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How Swap.com Kept Fraudsters From Ruining Christmas

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Fraudsters are deploying strategies, such as credit card theft and false chargebacks, to capitalize on online marketplaces’ security vulnerabilities, and merchants are scrambling to anticipate and counter fraudsters’ emerging schemes. It turns out there was a big data breach. … How Swap.com Stomps Out Fraud.

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Visa Opens Up Office In Silicon Valley To Spur Innovation

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The employees to be housed in the new facility are ones who are focused on technology research, business intelligence, data security and merchant services. Visa said it has new technology development centers in Bangalore and innovation centers in Dubai, Miami, San Francisco and Singapore.

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Unbundling The Travel Bundle

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The company recently opened a gig marketplace in Miami called Uber Works to connect employers and employees using the same star-based rating system for its ridesharing app. The marketplace originally launched in Chicago two months before its Miami expansion. How AI Can Help With Consumer Onboarding Security. About the Playbook.

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A digital-first bank for south Florida

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In partnership with Nymbus, the bank’s custom digital platform is built on a secure cloud-native core banking system with an open API architecture. While many banks are utilizing technology and trying to be innovative, they are doing so on an existing legacy structure that is too expensive, painful and ingrained in their culture to change.”.

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FIs Embrace FinTech Options To Bolster Business Banking

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Miami-based Apollo Bank is turning to a third-party FinTech to strengthen its corporate payments and treasury management offering. The company, which secured the investment from SBI Investment Co. Apollo Bank Adopts CheckAlt Lockbox Technology. The Clearing House Facilitates Third-Party Data Sharing. Germany- and U.S.-based

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