Accenture

DECEMBER 2, 2019

With technologies such as digital currencies and blockchain gaining momentum in the banking industry, more players are looking to adopt them to improve their services and build market share. The most recent example is Facebook’s announcement of the launch of a new cryptocurrency, Libra.

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BankUnderground

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Speculative buying can drive cryptocurrency prices down. Blockchain technology limits how quickly transactions can be settled. But the future value of cryptocurrency depends on its usefulness as a means of payment. During 2017, there was a surge in cryptocurrency speculation. Cryptocurrency has no fundamental value.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

JPMorgan Chase isn’t the only bank that has been working on a cryptocurrency. Citigroup was as well, but ultimately decided to scrap it instead of bringing it to market. When Citi kicked off the development in 2015, it code-named the cryptocurrency Citicoin, but never formally announced the project.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 30, 2018

I was recently recorded on Roger Edwards’ podcast talking about FinTech, cryptocurrency and corporate change. Roger is a marketing strategist focused upon the insurance industry, and produces regular podcasts about said subject.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

The most significant problem with bank innovation is that bankers see or hear about a sexy piece of technology at a conference or at another bank and then acquire it. The new piece of technology ends up solving a known problem but, in the process, creates more problems, and risks, than it solves.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

There are currently more than 5,500 different cryptocurrencies in circulation, but the biggest name in the business — and often a metonym for the industry itself — is bitcoin. billion bitcoins in circulation, with a market capitalization of $117.81 The year 2020 saw 18.42 billion and an individual coin valued at $19,463 as of December.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Toward that end, and more mainstream use cases, getting the rails in place to speed and streamline transactions, regardless of the cryptocurrency used, remains key. As spotlighted in this space , Ternio said it has joined Visa’s Fast Track as a cryptocurrency-focused enablement partner.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The allure of blockchain was its potential to be a catch-all solution, but as innovators take a more practical approach to introducing the technology to the real world, its true opportunity may lie in addressing highly specialized, unique points of friction. trillion by 2025. trillion by 2025.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 6, 2017

billion increase in market cap (just under a 500% increase, compared to bitcoin’s 11% increase for the quarter), according to data from Coindesk’s State of Blockchain report for 1Q17. The cryptocurrency-slash-enterprise […]. The top rival of “digital gold,” i.e. bitcoin, had a banner first quarter in 2017, with a $3.6

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Austria’s major telecommunications firm A1 is now accepting payments in cryptocurrency as part of a pilot project, the company said in a recent blog post. He noted that this emergence has crept into just about every major economic sector, and as more people buy cryptocurrency, cash becomes obsolete.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Coinone, a South Korean-based platform for cryptocurrency exchange, has released a blockchain-powered remittance app called Cross, according to a report. The remittance sector is a popular one for emerging markets, and firms are noticing. It offers payment services for people who want to send money to Thailand and the Philippines.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

He added that while cryptocurrency is important, the blockchain technology behind it is equally so. “Cryptocurrency for us has always been beyond the asset itself but more on the blockchain technology that underpins it,” he said, according to Bloomberg. Cointelgraph reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Facebook’s Libra project has renewed focus on how cryptocurrencies are regulated, with current rules on the sector patchy and varying from country to country. Cloud-based KYC activities were among the new technologies most used by U.S. Smaller companies were less likely to report investing in and using AML technologies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

He added that while cryptocurrency is important, the blockchain technology behind it is equally so. “Cryptocurrency for us has always been beyond the asset itself but more on the blockchain technology that underpins it,” he said, according to Bloomberg. Cointelgraph reported.

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BankBazaar

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Over the past few years, the sharp rise of cryptocurrencies has attracted investors from all over the world who want to diversify their portfolios and earn high returns. However, the impact of higher interest rates in the past year has impacted the cryptocurrency market, leading to a significant sell-off. Explore BankBazaar.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Singapore residents will soon be able to make purchases with a prepaid Visa card backed by the cryptocurrency platform Monaco. This is an important step towards Monaco’s vision to introduce cryptocurrency to the mass market,” said Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Monaco, in a press release.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

In the developed world of workers in the United States and Europe, the ability to be paid in cryptocurrency probably would not add all that much to their daily life. Those are markets, he said, where the local currency is devaluing, or where it can be hard to access funds quickly and inexpensively. A Natural Evolution.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Distributed ledger technology (blockchain) has made significant headway this year, and people are starting to take notice. At the beginning of 2017, the cryptocurrency bitcoin was valued at just under $1,000 and soared up to over $3,000 in May. This gives way to countries opting to integrate cryptocurrencies for their own use.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 1, 2022

On July 18, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) announced the launch of a new Office of Financial Technology with the goal of advancing effective risk management as it evaluates fintech developments in the housing finance space. In the introduction to the RFI, the FHFA noted President Biden’s March 2022 executive order.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Cryptocurrencies just made a huge leap from use in the financial arena to mainstream. Through this pairing, any one of Overstock’s customers will now have the option of making a purchase by using any one of the cryptocurrencies available, including Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash and Bitcoin Cash. Overstock CEO Patrick M.

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JULY 27, 2018

We’ve launched this cryptocurrency trading facility in response to demand from our user base,” said TransferGo Founder and CEO Daumantas Dvilinskas. With over 4,000 users signing up in the first few hours, we can see there is a strong demand in the market for a simple and reliable investment and trading solution.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

It’s been a big year for cryptocurrency. Goldman Sachs joined in the conversation earlier this month, saying that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies like it are “ not the new gold ” and lose out to the precious metal in a “majority of the key characteristics of money.”. “The blockchain is a technology [that] is a good technology.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The regulator of the nation’s banks has issued its first guidance on stablecoins , the cryptocurrency backed by traditional currency. . Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become a broadly adopted payments instrument.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

The freight industry has just seen its first transaction settled via cryptocurrency. As far as we know, this is the first freight deal done in cryptocurrency.”. Prime Shipping Foundation is also seeking a banking license in Gibraltar, the firm told reporters, to facilitate transactions using government-issued cryptocurrencies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The United States may have some of the world's best cryptographers working for the National Security Agency and other spy shops, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is crowdsourcing at least part of its effort to beat the algorithms that cloak information about certain cryptocurrencies. 1 have just taken effect.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

The country’s state bank ruled that all cryptocurrency, not just Bitcoin, was an invalid form of payment. The financial authority released a statement last week declaring cryptocurrency an illegal, non-cash payment method. According to a statement from Martowardojo, users of cryptocurrency “would be dealt with.”

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JUNE 29, 2020

The European Union (EU) is preparing to update its cryptocurrency rules that could make it more difficult for stablecoin projects, such as Facebook Inc.’s Last fall, the Libra Association petitioned the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority ( FINMA ) for a Swiss payment system license for its planned cryptocurrency.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

international money transfer firm posted strong earnings and said its regional diversification can offset the rise of isolationism in specific markets. Ingenico adds technology to enable cryptocurrency payments, and more. Here's what's happening in the world of payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Over the past two years, exit scammers have stolen more than $100 million worth of cryptocurrency. In an effort to protect its residents from crypto scams, the Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBOB) has released a regulatory framework before it integrates cryptocurrency-based assets into its services.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The OCC’s announcement that it will establish an Office of Financial Technology to “bolster the agency’s expertise and ability to adapt to a rapidly changing banking landscape” should come as no surprise to those who have been following recent pronouncements of Acting Comptroller Michael J.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. Or maybe that cryptocurrencies have yet to go mainstream beyond the headlines because fraud still lurks. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. Building The (Retail) Use Cases.

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APRIL 29, 2020

The volatility of cryptocurrencies and their existence in what’s often a grey area of regulatory compliance make businesses operating in this sector an unattractive target for traditional financial institutions. ius noted, this is often because the heart of the cryptocurrency industry is often at odds with the nuances of regulation.

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Let's Talk Payments

MAY 4, 2017

There’s a discernible pattern in the interesting aspects of blockchain and the extended distributed ledger technologies over the years. We took to Google trends to map this evolution over past.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The cloud storage subscription market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.8 The cloud storage subscription market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.8 Cryptocurrency And Credit Cards. The firm also found it necessary to accept cryptocurrency.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Officials have until April 1 to divest from any foreign cryptocurrencies, although they won’t be required to report any crypto holdings for the year 2020, the report stated. In other news, in an attack on Indian cryptocurrency exchange BuyUCoin , hacker group ShinyHunters leaked the private information of over 325,000 users, Inc42 reported.

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Banking Exchange

MAY 5, 2021

Digital Dollar Project to launch at least five pilot programs over the next 12 months, funded by Accenture The Economy Technology Financial Trends Blockchain Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Feature Feature3.

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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. Janet Yellen supports blockchain as a technology. to take center stage. Bitcoin is awesome.

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