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MAY 18, 2020

Japan-based credit card and payment firm JCB has announced a partnership with tech startup accelerator TECHFUND to explore the idea of a payment system with blockchain options, the company said on Friday (May 15). TECHFUND isn’t new to the blockchain sphere, having explored helping entrepreneurs with service token offerings in the past.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To explore the positive impacts of blockchain on small businesses, the U.S. The “Building Blocks of Change: The Benefits of Blockchain Technology for Small Businesses” hearing will be held on March 4 at 11:30 a.m. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business plans to hold a hearing next week.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Federal Ministry of Finance in Nigeria is said to be in discussions with the securities watchdog in the country to create a new digital currency and blockchain structure, Cointelegraph reported. In other news, The Australian Border Force (ABF) is holding a blockchain pilot with Singapore, according to an announcement.

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Perficient

MARCH 17, 2023

Blockchain Is A Permanent Record In the last series of articles published by members of Perficient’s Digital Assets Team, we wrote about the improved visibility of blockchain-based supply chains assisting all supply chain transaction partners to share data through permission-based Blockchain solutions.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2017

— Blockchain – or the distributed ledger technology – is rushing out of test labs, and into real-life applications. Experts foresee that blockchain will take over money transfers, and will […]. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

EXCLUSIVE — When it comes to blockchain, lenders need to stop thinking about smart contracts and start thinking about identity, according to industry experts. “To To get an identity verified, to get an organization to service you, it can be a lot smoother, it can be more secure, and you can be more in control of […].

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The emergence of the “network of network” strategies on the parts of Visa and Mastercard have opened the door for faster payments, for the electronification of payments — and for blockchain to underpin it all. Blockchain remains a key driver of cryptos’ future, both as unit of currency and store of value.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You might be using a blockchain to order detergent within the next few years. That’s because blockchains, or more properly, distributed ledgers, are likely to be used to authenticate users of IoT devices, according to Chris Skinner, author of the forthcoming book ValueWeb. Skinner told Bank Innovation today that he Read More.

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MARCH 11, 2020

WSFS Bank is working with Intain, a blockchain firm based in Chennai, India, to help automate capital markets transactions. based bank, a subsidiary of WSFS Financial, said it’s using Intain’s blockchain-based tool to facilitate trustee reporting for asset-backed securities transactions. The Wilmington, Del.-based

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MAY 16, 2020

patent on a computer system that would convert physical dollars and other fiat currencies into digital versions, complete with denominations and serial numbers and recorded via blockchain. 100 for User A in America, 200 pesos for User B in Mexico and so forth) in order to perform transactions in a secure, fast and reliable way.”.

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MAY 22, 2020

It’s a tall order, Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson told Karen Webster in a recent digital discussion, but the power of blockchain can be critical in addressing it. The consumer chooses to access their health record via a blockchain transaction, then chooses which businesses they wish to share information with, he said.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

In Asia, blockchain continues to get a boost from government and regulatory efforts, especially in the realm of trade finance done across borders. The CBA pilots, as reported by CoinDesk and other sites, were tied to the issuance of letters of credit and securities. IoT Gains Traction With Blockchain.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Silicon Valley’s Ripple , a blockchain payments startup, has filed a trademark with the U.S. Its frictionless blockchain payments platform enables users to send money around the world. . Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for PayString, which will likely be a new offering, according to a report in CoinDesk on Friday (Nov.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Decentralized digital finance trade platform Contour has completed a pilot blockchain transaction between textile companies Tainan Spinning and Century Synthetic Fiber Corporation in Vietnam, according to a press release. Because of that, banks, importers and exporters can access greater visibility without compromising security.

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MARCH 9, 2020

There are two terms seen a lot in juxtaposition to supply chain lately: coronavirus and blockchain. Some new use cases and a new report put blockchain and the supply chain in perspective. That “single version of the truth” (similar to a bank balance) is the blockchain version of trust.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

billion, is China’s largest private investment conglomerate, has confirmed that it has invested “tens of millions of yuan,” or multi-millions of US dollars, into a Shanghai-based startup responsible for a local blockchain technology platform. A representative of Fosun Group, which, at $13.1 In addition […].

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MARCH 1, 2020

House of Representatives Committee on Small Businesses is going to hold a hearing on the benefits of blockchain technology for entrepreneurs. ET, and will be called “Building Blocks of Change: The Benefits of Blockchain Technology for Small Businesses.”. The hearing is set for Wednesday, March 4 at 11:30 a.m.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Cross-border payments are getting an update—but banks are keeping blockchain in the blockchain labs. If [the Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

ECS Fin , which works in transaction processing optimization, will launch a pilot program to test the integration of blockchain services of Apifiny 's Roxe network to help companies save time and costs on B2B payments, according to a press release.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 11, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- Blockchain technology and digital loans will continue to grow in 2018 as banks continue to work on their cybersecurity in the coming year, software provider Mitek predicts. It’s just logical that given the extent of recent data breaches, that we’re going to see more of the same.

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MARCH 29, 2019

Federal Bank in India has partnered with blockchain payments company Ripple to facilitate cross-border payments, according to reports. This is to inform Federal Bank has entered into a partnership with Ripple Inc, a blockchain supported global remittance company, for cross border remittance through its network, ” the announcement said.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Collaborative blockchain company Hyperledger has made Hyperledger Sawtooth, the second of its active projects to reach a 1.0 While its older cousin, Hyperledger Fabric, has enabled scores of developers and companies to work on blockchain projects […].

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JULY 31, 2019

Mastercard is collaborating with Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions ( BENEFIT ) to develop a blockchain-powered B2B payments solution, according to a press release Tuesday (July 30). According to reports in TahawulTech, the initiative marks Mastercard’s first national-scale blockchain project in the Middle East.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Perficient will also bring insight surrounding the banking industry’s growing use of blockchain to the Summit. Blockchain technology is being used to create secure, decentralized ledger systems that can store and transfer data in a transparent and secure manner.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

EXCLUSIVE- Global technology company IBM is involved in more than 400 blockchain projects, according to its vice president of blockchain technologies, Gennaro “Jerry” Cuomo, who testified before Congress yesterday.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Samsung ’s latest Galaxy Note 10 aims to boost blockchain adoption by making it more user-friendly, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Sept. The new product will be marketed as a “KlaytnPhone,” named after a South Korean blockchain platform, sources told the WSJ. Right now, it’s only being sold in South Korea.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

To that end, any number of analyses are coming in the blockchain arena. According to an article via the MIT Technology Review , this will be the year that blockchain becomes “boring,” with innovative projects that will “bear fruit” this year even amid the declines seen last year in the sector, and in cryptocurrencies.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

MonetaGo , which specializes in blockchain technologies, and GUUD Company , which focuses on making international trade smooth, have teamed up on international financial transaction security, MonetaGo announced in a press release. Both companies are based in Singapore. Going paperless has to happen.”.

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JULY 1, 2019

The rise of the global economy and the demand for swift and secure cross-border payments is driving the development of more efficient infrastructures, and spurring financial institutions (FIs) to experiment with emerging tech. Canadian payments network Interac has experimented with blockchain for consumer payments.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Overstock is gearing up to sell its retail business, with a deal taking place in the next few months as it focuses solely on its blockchain initiatives. Overstock has previously announced plans to sell the retail business so that it can focus on blockchain technology. Byrne is a big backer of blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

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APRIL 9, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Interested in the latest trends in payments, digital banking, blockchain technology, API, security, big data and all the other hot topics in the fintech space? Come join Bank Innovation’s Telegram Group.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Late this month, a study from Nexus found that across 200 businesses surveyed, more than half of large and mid-sized companies queried are looking to adopt blockchain in an effort to mitigate operational risks in the wake of Brexit. That would leave room for blockchain. As reported in July via white paper, the U.K.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Cagney said that, for this reason, the stage may be set for an overhaul of the government’s payments status quo, quickened by innovation, and, particularly, by blockchain. Among the advantages of a blockchain ledger, he added, is the fact that parties in a transaction do not have to pay an interchange fee.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The world’s first blockchain-enabled smartphone will debut in Bangladesh , India. Bitcoin Blockchain Hack? Separately, bitcoin’s blockchain has been hijacked by malware installed that uses the network itself to repel attacks, according to Forbes. Telegram to Deliver (on Blockchain)? Finney will cost $999.

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JUNE 29, 2020

CertiK , an auditing firm, wants to bring Internet of Things (IoT) devices onto blockchain through its new partnership with Hdac , CoinDesk reports. Hdac’s blockchain platform will work to combine the tight authentication, seamless mapping and machine-to-machine transactions with a network containing IoT devices.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That reality, of course, places a premium on the accuracy of that data, as well as efficient access to it and the secure storage of all that deeply personal information. That leads us to the latest discussion about the potential role that blockchain can play in healthcare data. Healthcare Friction. So have biometrics.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Plus, Contour completes blockchain trade finance transaction, Liberis raises funding for SME financing, Pakistan eyes digitizing supply chains, and Ripple faces SEC charges. Contour Completes Blockchain Transaction Between Two Cos. SEC Files Lawsuit Against Ripple Over Unregistered Securities. pandemic aid package.

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