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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. Bitcoin and blockchain creator Satoshi Nakamoto developed these tools nearly a decade ago, he said. Broader Doubts Emerge.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

At least one thing is clear about Facebook ’s new interest in blockchain: It will help the social media giant keep up with the Joneses. No one outside Facebook has yet cracked why the company is creating a blockchain unit and putting David Marcus, one of its senior executives, in charge of it. “Could it be?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

The Chinese government has a complicated relationship with cryptocurrency: While it seems to be enthusiastic about the applications of blockchain technology, the country has banned initial coin offerings (ICOs) and blocked crypto trading sites. billion fund focused on the blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Mint’s decision to phase out production of pennies next year, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a California-based venture capital firm, said money will be digital by 2030, Bloomberg News reported. The company raised $350 million in 2018 for startups working on the blockchain technology underpinning digital coins.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Celebrities including Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled backed the project on social media. equity securities, let those users enter into contracts to price those movements with blockchain-based financial transactions. They falsely claimed to have a Harvard-educated CEO backing them. And, the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The afternoon session brought on the blockchain. The morning session at BBVA Open Talent Challenge was all about artificial intelligence. From these sessions, two winners were chosen that will have the chance to engage with a global bank — perhaps the ultimate prize for a fintech startup today. The challenge was part Read More.

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Bussman Advisory

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Sequoia Capital warns today’s downturn is worse than 2000 and 2008. Will the metaverse’s impact on digital marketing be equivalent to social media? Do you want your board, executives or staff to better understand the impact of FinTech, Blockchain or Digital Assets on the future of finance?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The social media giant wants to move forward and launch Libra in June despite global questioning and hesitation. We are engaging in constructive dialogue with FINMA and are encouraged to see a feasible pathway for an open-source blockchain network to become a regulated, low-friction, high-security payment system.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

China Construction Bank ’s vice president has revealed that the bank has added new abilities to its trade finance blockchain platform, including cross-chain and inter-bank transactions. The project will work to build a digital end-to-end trade finance and supply chain finance solution on a blockchain platform. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Blockchain-based social media platform Steemit has partnered with the Tron foundation to bring users to Tron. Defendants Breonna Clark, of Denver, Colorado, and Venture Capital Investments Ltd are charged with soliciting American citizens to trade foreign currency and Bitcoin using a communal digital pool.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Talk has shifted from last year’s discussions on blockchain and chatbots to artificial intelligence and cloud-based cores. Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? Many […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Coverage includes Amazon opening up voice applications for iOS users, Overstock’s blockchain unit nabbing a huge investment, Intuit securing a bitcoin processing patent, Facebook and L’Oréal using augmented reality for makeup tests and Dish accepting Bitcoin Cash as payment.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Facebook announced plans for a blockchain-backed cryptocurrency in June, with a target launch of June 2020. The social media giant formed the Libra Association based in Geneva, Switzerland to oversee the coin. We will respond to them with an open mind, with an attitude that the same risks require the same rules.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

The Chinese tech giant wants to capitalize on an initiative from Beijing, which announced it wanted to bolster the country’s technology infrastructure in the next few years. China Renaissance analyst Alex Liu said the pandemic “expedited the digitalization of people’s way of life,” according to Reuters.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

At the Fortune Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, New York, he said the social media giant’s launch of its own digital currency validates the space, and that Overstock would be open to partnering with Facebook on the project.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Said MarketWatch, the social media conduits think so, according to bulls who touted the outsized buy as a positive sign. The site quoted Jeff Koyen, president of 360 Blockchain USA as stating that “I am willing to believe that, seeing bitcoin bottom around $6,000, Wall Street smelled blood and jumped back in,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In other news, soccer powerhouse Barcelona is teaming with Chiliz, a FinTech platform, with the intent of creating its own blockchain-based token for the team. Chiliz has created a coin called Barca Fan Token due to its partnership with the Spanish sports giant, which can be used on its social media app Socios.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This year’s blockchain craze has pushed a huge amount of new money into cryptocurrencies, private blockchain projects, and companies holding initial coin offerings (ICOs). As of now, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies stands at more than $220B — a huge leap from where it started the year at $18B.

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Bussman Advisory

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

billion into the sector Revolut under pressure over internal audit FTX Ventures plans to take 30% stake in Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital. billion into the sector Revolut under pressure over internal audit FTX Ventures plans to take 30% stake in Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital. Subscribe now to our weekly newsletter.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

On the second day of FinovateFall 2016, fintechs continued to wow attendees with bright, dazzling new finovations. Attendees from banks, credit unions, and other fintech companies saw 31 demos of technology that has applications across the financial sphere, from financial data analysis to mobile payments to trading.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Unlike social media … the terms of engagement for innovations such as Libra must be adopted in advance of any launch.”. ” He noted that projects with distributed ledger technology (DLT) could unlock “billions of pounds in capital and liquidity.”.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Blockchain. As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Huge corporations — like Walmart and Pfizer — have completed successful blockchain pilots. Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

With nearly $120 million raised for enterprise-serving startups, B2B venture capital saw one of its most successful weeks this year. Businesses across the globe operating in the blockchain, eCommerce-as-a-Service and alternative lending spaces (to name a few) all secured funding. Blockchain . Enterprise Security. Pwnie Express.

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JUNE 23, 2019

Byrne told CNN Business that the social media giant’s launch of its own digital currency validates the space — and Overstock would be open to partnering with Facebook on the project. Overstock has spent $150 million on its blockchain business, tZero; the company owns 82 percent of the exchange.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Many sessions discussed the importance of setting clear goals for any marketing effort, such as the talk by Jessica Reese (graphical notes below), the Social Media Manager for Arvest Bank (AR, $27B). Bank Marketing Lesson 8: Crypto, Blockchain, Digital Assets, and NFTs. Bank Marketing Lesson 9: Goal Setting – A Common Theme.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

will feature dozens of speakers on investing in innovation, chatbots, blockchain and more. Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

The recent $14 billion worth of fresh capital for Ant Financial — the China-based firm that is now the most valuable privately held tech firm in the world, ahead of Uber — comes amid fresh fears among some banking professionals in the West that China is passing them by. Here comes China. That contrasts with the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

startup TaTaTu — a firm that bills itself as a social entertainment platform that uses crypto cash back as a reward for engagement. TaTaTu is basically a combination social media/ content streaming business model that offers subscribers “premium” video content and rewards users with crypto tokens when they watch that content.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

The notion that Facebook is going to launch and ignite a global payments network, at scale, based on its own branded cryptocurrency and achieve global merchant and consumer acceptance is as likely as the predictions a decade ago that bitcoin and blockchain would, by now, become the internet of money. Social gaming. Something like this.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Banks, on the other hand, in addition to understanding complex regulations and having greater access to capital, know their customers and have their trust. Fintechs started dominating in the digital channel by reaching clients through bots, social media and other digital channels. Banks are also innovators.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The company uses API technology to facilitate corporate payments to suppliers and employees across the globe, and deploys blockchain (fueled by Ripple) for liquidity and treasury management capabilities. According to reports, the company is also hoping to help SMBs raise capital as they face a funding shortage from traditional banks.

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

(The Paypers) TIPO , a blockchain-based ecommerce platform, has turned to blockchain to aid businesses become more efficient, while enabling users on social media to generate income easily.

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Bussman Advisory

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Oliver will be SFF panelist “The Curious Case of Capital Deployment” on November 2. Do you want your board, executives or staff to better understand the impact of FinTech, Blockchain or Digital Assets on the future of finance?

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 30, 2018

The messaging app Telegram has raised more money with its initial coin offering, logging another $850 million, the SEC reported yesterday. This brings the total amount raised via the offering to $1.7 billion, making it the largest initial coin offering in history.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Select Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Wellcome Trust, GIC, SoftBank Group, DST Global. Valuation: $12B.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I stuck my head around the corner of a conference session, and to my surprise found that it was people talking about the blockchain again. But my sense of Venmo is that it suceeded because of social media integration so I suspect that Zelle’s long term role will be as an API for other platforms (e.g., Bank and Wells Fargo.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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