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JANUARY 1, 2021

As reported in this space , the DSA and DMA cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms. The outcome, should it come in 2021, would shape how app store and other platforms operate, and whether they promote or hinder competition and innovation in various tech marketplaces.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- Bank Innovation has released the agenda for its seventh annual fintech conference, and it is completely overhauled to enhance the event experience for attendees.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The BoE has warned about Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra , as well as other digital coins, and how they must be carefully considered before being approved. The group will be co-chaired by Cunliffe and former ECB official Benoit Coeure , who helms the BIS Innovation Hub.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 27, 2018

PREMIUM –Facebook has changed its stance on cryptocurrency ads by reversing a ban it had placed on the ads only five months ago. The news didn't do much for bitcoin, the most well known cryptocurrency, which is trading today a little above $6,000.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Exagens Corp., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI

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Abrigo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Guidance for banks on the lookout for crypto scams and fraud The turbulent cryptocurrency scene should put bankers on high alert. You might also like this whitepaper, "Understanding cryptocurrency." Takeaway 1 Cryptocurrencies are the newest and most popular field in potential financial gains through fraud. DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The Libra Association is petitioning the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority ( FINMA ) for a Swiss payment system license for its planned Libra cryptocurrency, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept. The social media giant wants to move forward and launch Libra in June despite global questioning and hesitation.

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JUNE 24, 2019

The think pieces have come in waves, as have the reactions from analysts, cryptocurrency enthusiasts and regulators — and the world waits to see exactly what Facebook and its cadre of payments and commerce players design. The news about Libra has been out for about a week. There will be perceptual hurdles to clear, and regulators to convince.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics are changing the digital security landscape, and a recent study found that social media networks have become a more popular way for hackers to target new victims. 22 billion: Projected over-the-top (OTT) media revenue for 2019. All this, Today In Data.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Facebook reported a 51 percent spike in its costs and expenses for the full year 2019 — that increase coming as the social media platform faces more questions from regulators and policymakers about its present and planned endeavors. 29), and reported that total costs and expenses hit some $46.71 Challenges to Come. 31, stood at 2.5

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

fintech firm, Bittrex, and South Korean app developer, Dunamu, an affiliate of the country’s largest messaging platform, Kakao, have teamed up to launch a new, massive cryptocurrency exchange platform in South Korea.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 6, 2018

Many expressed their anger at the Reserve Bank of India on social media platform under the hashtag #RBICantStopMe. India’s central bank’s decision to ban all banks and entities that come under its authority did not go well with the country’s crypto traders/investors.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that come from creative endeavor. As has been well-documented in this space, the damper on activity tied to cryptos has extended to social media. And patents?

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MARCH 7, 2018

Ripple — the blockchain company whose technology powers the cryptocurrency XRP — has created a new payment app in which transactions are settled instantly. While many regulators around the world are banning cryptocurrency trading, Japan has embraced it.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 27, 2018

From those that focus on payments or mobile, to the ones leveraging social media, blockchain, and artificial intelligence, there’s a global hoard of startups that want to muscle into the banks’ territory […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Amid the announcement of a new cryptocurrency – that would be Libra – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which operates as global regulatory firm based in Paris with a membership roster of countries such as China and the United States, has said it will boost its examination of digital currencies with an eye on money laundering.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A digital coin could also minimize financial innovation in the private sector and pull money from commercial banks, in terms of deposits, especially if they pull off a low-cost digital currency. One of the reasons that CBDCs are such a talked-about topic is Facebook’s push for its own cryptocurrency, Libra.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets. EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day.

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JULY 1, 2019

With the idea of pegging Libra’s value to a basket of international currencies, Facebook ’s proposed cryptocurrency would bring tax challenges to European users, per tax lawyers. Unlike social media … the terms of engagement for innovations such as Libra must be adopted in advance of any launch.”.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 12, 2018

The price of bitcoin surged above $8,000 today for the first time in several weeks, a rise of more than 13% over the past 24 hours, prompting excitement in the cryptocurrency community. The combined market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies rose 16% over the same period.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The August Faster Payments Tracker details this new development, as well as other major developments hitting the world stage, from SWIFT’s instant cros s-border payments trial to Facebook’s cryptocurrency foray. Around the Faster Payments World.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

There has been no summer slowdown for regulatory overtures toward technology firms, spanning social media, antitrust concerns and the cryptocurrency arenas. Back then, Facebook said the FTC was examining “areas of social networking or social media services, digital advertising and/or mobile or online applications.”.

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JUNE 21, 2019

In a Financial Times opinion piece, Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes contends that the social media platform’s Libra cryptocurrency could move power into the wrong hands. At the same time, he noted that regulators should not underrate the disruptive potential of the cryptocurrency. Carney said, according to reports.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 8, 2018

Last December, Marcus joined the board of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange. And it has put the former PayPal President David Marcus in charge of the effort. Marcus's involvement implies that the blockchain effort might have some financial services implications. Facebook announced a whole slew of executive changes […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“It is scheduled for release in the first half of 2020 by the very same people who had to explain themselves in front of legislators in the United States and the European Union on the threats to our democracies resulting from their handling of personal data on their social media platform,” Mersch said. He said to forget the 1.7

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Cryptocurrencies tend to be exceptionally vulnerable to this form of attack, as coins are often heavily concentrated in the hands of a comparatively small number of individuals, whose market activities can dramatically impact the coin price,” noted the An.Chain researchers, according to Coin Telegraph. Never use @BitPay, folks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Cryptocurrencies continued to dip on the heels of various regulatory actions focused on trading activities and exchanges. Although the firms had advertised across social media, none of them had registered to offer or sell securities. International Innovation, With a UK Focus. Same alarms, different week.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell revealed that Facebook has spoken to the central bank about its upcoming cryptocurrency, called Libra. There’s just a tremendous amount of innovation going on out there,” he said. But Powell believes the social media giant will overcome any issues before Libra is launched.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2019

Japanese authorities have formed a task force to study the impact of Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency , Libra, according to reports. The G7 taskforce in France was created to address the issue of cryptocurrencies as well. The group is meeting ahead of the upcoming conference of the G7 finance ministers in France July 17-18.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Bank of Japan Head Haruhiko Kuroda spoke to business leaders in Osaka about the importance of having a coordinated global plan to regulate Libra and other cryptocurrencies, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Sept. Japanese authorities formed a task force in July to study the impact of Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney said Facebook’s newly-announced cryptocurrency, Libra, can’t be the same unregulated type of service that Facebook is, according to a report by Reuters. Unlike social media … the terms of engagement for innovations such as Libra must be adopted in advance of any launch.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

If there might be an overarching theme this past week on the as-yet-to debut Libra cryptocurrency it would boil down to a single word: Caution. Wall Street seems focused on the social media giant, beleaguered as it is with privacy concerns. All Libra, all the time? Maybe even no Libra, or a long wait until Libra.

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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. A Cryptocurrency Play in Three Acts.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- The original cryptocurrency bitcoin finally hit a $10K valuation per coin earlier this morning, and it has since soared past $11K, and Twitter has some feelings. The valuation comes after a steep climb by the cryptocurrency over the past year or so, with gains of about 1,000%, according to CoinDesk.

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