Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to the innovations in finance that will impact the way future organizations are run, artificial intelligence and machine learning is likely to have a larger effect than bitcoin or cryptocurrency, a survey from investor communications company Mediant found.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 11, 2017

As this has happened, we have seen a counter-trend occurring, as the maturing FinTech specialists branch out to create global monoline services in platforms. This is obvious when you look at the fledgling hiccups of bitcoin. There are few trusted value stores of bitcoin and the ones that exist are regulated.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I’ve noted that the bitcoin swings and roundabouts tend to often cycle around the hope and expectation of the US SEC giving approval to a bitcoin ETF … only to find that they never do and so it goes around.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Plutus , a British FinTech startup, is providing rewards via its credit card to customers who buy from the eCommerce store of Nike , Cointelegraph reported. In other news, Poolin, a bitcoin mining pool, is growing its financial services and digital currency lending verticals, CoinDesk reported.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 28, 2017

Gemuel Franco over at Fried.com shared a great infographic on bitcoin with me, so I thought I should share it with you. bitcoins to a dollar would now equate to circa $5.5 The post The History of Bitcoin appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Checkout the history below and note that the original exchange rate of 1,309.03

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Chris Skinner

OCTOBER 18, 2017

It’s been an interesting few weeks, watching bitcoin’s rollercoaster ride as it rises to valuations over $4,000 and then dives to almost $2,000 before rising again to near $6,000. The rise … The post The truth about bitcoin appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 24, 2017

There are a few exchanges I use for trading cryptocurrencies such as Kraken and Coinbase, so I was interested to receive this email from Coinbase last Friday: Dear Coinbase Customer, We are contacting you to make you aware of recent developments in a number of proposals for technical changes to Bitcoin. I disagree.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 6, 2017

The lead runners are bitcoin and Ethereum, and both have serious backing. Whether it’s bitcoin or bityuan or ekrona or ether or monero or any of them, who knows … it could be all. After all, corporates might use Ethereum whilst the general public use bitcoin. However, it’s still early days. ” Yep.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2018

Payment processor Stripe will no longer support bitcoin payments on its platform, citing the cryptocurrency’s price volatility as a factor making it an unsuitable form of payment.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As mentioned on Friday, they see … The post The regulator’s view of bitcoin, 2017 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. These central banks have run trials and are thinking about it, but none of them are particularly big on blockchain right now.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2017

Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston all have thriving fintech communities, and are definitely worth a trip for the invested fintech entrepreneur, but the U.S. is already seeing a cluster of other fintech hubs emerge. These cities boast strong tech communities, talent pools, good coffee, and cheaper rents.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The price of bitcoin continues to teeter today, with the cryptocurrency having lost a third of its value in the last week. Bitcoin’s sharp drop comes after rising uncertainty in the Chinese market, with two major Chinese currency exchanges, China BTC and ViaBTC, having announced that they will halt trading by the end of this […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

When PayPal announced recently that its 350 million users can deposit bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in their accounts and spend it at 26 million merchants next year, it was characterized as the inevitable advance of digital currency. Bitcoin is like a [crypto] 101 version. Wanted: Big Backers And Government Support.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

At a time when 90 percent of Americans have never owned bitcoin and nearly 70 percent say they have no plans to do so in the future, the thought of widespread adoption and usage of cryptocurrency seems to be a distant prospect for most people. Bitcoin is awesome. Ternio CEO Daniel Gouldman , however, is not one of them. “I Baby Steps

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 12, 2018

It’s quite a good article, and talks about … The post bitcoin you say? In fact, I love it when someone points out I’m wrong, and shows me why, because I learn something. So, I was particularly interested when in Sunday’s Guardian, I saw the headline Blockchain: hype or hope. Bah, humbug! appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2018

The central bank of China is tightening its grip on bitcoin mining in the state, telling local governments that it has the authority to regulate power usage for that mining. The People’s Bank of China cannot directly regulate power usage, Reuters reported today. However, the bank can ask local authorities to regulate it. If the […].

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2017

cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer wants to bridge the trading gap between two of the world’s largest bitcoin markets. Japan is the largest bitcoin trading market in the world, about 50% of it happens in there; the U.S. EXCLUSIVE — With its recent launch in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

number of big crypto custodians like Anchorage, Coinbase, and a number of others, have been contacted by banks about whether they’d be willing to be like the third-party custody providers for national banks whose customers want to invest in bitcoin,” he said, according to CoinDesk. “Well, what I have heard.a UNICAS is a project of U.K.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 16, 2018

Coinsecure reported the loss of about 438 bitcoins, or about $3 million worth of the cryptocurrency, the Indian cryptocurrency platform reported. The hack was attributed to an employee who was extracting bitcoin for the platform’s customers, the company said in a statement last week, when the bitcoins were siphoned away during the process.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Bit by bit — but more than bitcoin by bitcoin — cryptos are inching into the mainstream, for both consumer and commercial applications. Elsewhere, Square announce last month that it has invested $50 million — approximately 1 percent of its total second-quarter assets — to purchase roughly 4,709 bitcoins. “We

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2018

American Express is the “most-loved” financial service on social media in 2017, according to a recent report, followed by PayPal, Vanguard and bitcoin. NetBase examined 55 brands across sectors including banking, credit cards, investment banking, payment services, insurance, online lenders and crypto.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is looking toward new technologies to keep a closer eye on the nation’s FinTech , blockchain and digital lending markets. Yet onlookers have noted that PBoC has been working diligently toward its own FinTech growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2020

Bitcoin saw a drop-off in value on Saturday (May 9) as it tried and failed numerous times to break past the $10,000 range. On Sunday (May 10), Bitcoin was trading at 11 percent down, with its current price being $8,670.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

That’s Visa Senior Vice President and Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos reflecting on the impact of the rapid shift to digital for consumers and businesses around the globe who en masse began living many aspects of their personal and business lives in a mostly digital world — literally all at once, overnight.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Canaan Creative , the Chinese bitcoin miner maker, registered a net loss of $148.6 exhashes per second that comprised for approximately 20 percent of the computing power growth of the bitcoin network in 2019. Fold will now have the ability to provide a co-branded Visa card that lets consumers receive bitcoin rewards via Fast Track.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 14, 2019

Fintech executives sounded off on blockchain at CB Insights’ Future of Fintech conference this week. According to Henrique Dubugras, CEO and co-founder of Brex, blockchain is overhyped but cryptocurrencies are underrated. The corporate credit card startup is fresh off a $100 million funding round that has landed it a $2.6

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

Even bitcoin wasn’t safe from the blow-up. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) break-up paired with the stock sell-off jointly pummeled cryptocurrency markets with the big coin on the block, Bitcoin, losing roughly 10 percent of its value in 24 hours.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

London FinTech startup DAG Global is going after the first merchant bank license in the U.K. Businesses managing cryptocurrencies have had a tough time maintaining relationships with legacy banks because of the perception that bitcoin-type transactions are connected to criminal behavior.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 22, 2018

The social media/fintech executive made headlines in the crypto world.Read More. EXCLUSIVE— With cryptocurrencies losing their luster in the public — and the regulatory — eye, some in financial services still remain bullish on the currency even as its value falls.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The price of bitcoin is down following a report that China may ban all cryptocurrency exchanges within its borders. On Friday, Chinese financial news outlet Caixin reported that the Chinese government is considering banning all exchanges between bitcoin, ether, and other cryptocurrencies, and the Chinese yuan.

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Perficient

MAY 17, 2022

Glen began his speech by stressing the enormous contributions financial services institutions, particularly “fintech unicorns,” have made to the UK; the UK is the leading European fintech hub and the second leading fintech country in the world (falling only behind the U.S.).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

The FinTech giant, which has 325 million customers, will allow this feature for those who want a new wallet functionality for the popular service, according to unnamed sources, the report said. PayPal will offer direct cryptocurrency sales for customers, CoinDesk reports.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 18, 2017

The reason for mentioning it is that we keep hearing these numbers around how many billions are being invested in FinTech, bitcoin, blockchain and such like, and yet I cannot see … The post FiBD: The FinTech B t Detector appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Continuing yesterday’s discussions about a big bank’s conference, I was intrigued at how often the subject of cryptocurrencies and bitcoin came up.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Here are some of cryptos’ key developments for 2020: Bitcoin Goes Higher And Higher. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. And one of the most notable events of 2020 was the big appreciation in bitcoin’s price, tied as it is (and was) to optimism about cryptos’ future.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The exchange froze all withdrawals after noticing that large amounts of bitcoin, Ether, Ethereum Classic, XRP, Tether and Zcash were leaving the platform’s hot wallets. Meanwhile, U.K. cryptocurrency exchange Exmo reported a “major” security breach on Mon. 21), according to Cointelegraph.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2018

Bitcoin mania has died down in the fintech world, and the conversation has shifted to technologies like voice banking, payments, and alternative credit scoring. What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out.

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