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1.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMoneyGram And Sentbe Team On Cross-Border Payments
MoneyGram and Korean money transfer company Sentbe have signed a partnership to make Sentbe the first MoneyGram virtual agent in South Korea,...
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1.4KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: UK Gov’t Forms Crypto Economic Crime Plan; South Korea Credit Card Firm Gets Blockchain Patent
The U.K. government has developed a plan that aims to fight financial crimes, including “action on crypto-assets.” The Economic Crime Plan from...
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1.6KBlockchainSamsung, Tech And Banking Cos Team To Use Blockchain For Mobile Identity
A group of companies in South Korea are collaborating on a blockchain network to be used for mobile authentication services, according to...
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3.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: North Korean Hackers Target South Korean Crypto Exchange; Coinbase Pres Leaving Co
North Korean hackers have targeted South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UpBit. According to Hard Fork, security firm East Security discovered that the hackers...
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2.0KGlobal PaymentsTransferMate Gets Payment License In Singapore; Shanghai Commercial Bank Teams With EMQ
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes TransferMate’s approval for a payments license in...
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1.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: JPMorgan Boosts Privacy Of Ethereum Blockchains; S. Korean Bank Uses Blockchain For Loans
JPMorgan Chase has revealed to CoinDesk that its blockchain team has created a privacy feature for ethereum-based blockchains. The feature, which is...
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1.8KEarningsSamsung Touts 5G As Q1 Profit Plummets
Early 5G mobile network technology deployments put positive pressure on first quarter 2019 earnings for Samsung, but the firm still took a...
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3.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsHyundai Denies Link-Up With Tencent For Self-Driving Software
Hyundai Motor said late last weekend that it has not inked a deal with Tencent, the Chinese tech firm, to create software...
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4.3KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Argentina Open To Crypto; eToro Launching In US; South Korea Fights Crypto Crimes
eToro has announced that it is officially launching in the United States. Founded in 2007, eToro already services more than 10 million...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsIn South Korea: Calls For Greater Bank, FinTech Collaboration
Bank and non-bank collaboration gets a boost in South Korea through an interbank payment network and sandbox. Elsewhere, individual FinTech company initiatives shine...
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4.3KMobileWhat’s The Reward For Early 5G Deployment? Asia Will Soon Find Out
South Korea is taking an early lead in deployment of 5G, with three of the country’s telecoms recently deploying the service. That...
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5.2KInternationalNorth Korea Suspected In Hacking Of South Koreans
Hackers stole the information of close to 1,000 North Korean settlers who fled to South Korea, according to a report by The...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsSouth Korea Examines Blockchain For Shipping
In South Korea, government agencies are taking a look at blockchain for use in marine logistics activities, with an eye on making...
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4.0KInvestmentsSouth Korea Payment App Toss Raises $80M
South Korean company Viva Republica, which is behind the payment app Toss, has become the country’s fourth unicorn startup after raising an...
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4.0KInvestmentsCoupang Gets $2B Investment From SoftBank’s Vision Fund
Coupang, the South Korean eCommerce company, is getting a $2 billion investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, which will provide it with the...
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25.5KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Tezos Launches Main Network, WannaCry Still Used To Mine Crypto
Samsung has revealed that South Korea’s customs authority has agreed to use the company’s Nexledger blockchain tech for its decentralized customs clearance...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsBanks And The Blockchain Scramble
Blockchain is getting its share of true believers. Among them are banks, traditional FIs and central banks. A series of new projects demonstrate...
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4.2KArtificial IntelligenceSamsung To Invest $22B In New Growth Areas Including AI
Samsung Group, the South Korean consumer electronics company, is gearing up to spend $22 billion on advanced technologies as it seeks new...
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4.3KCryptocurrencySunken Treasure … And Sunken ICO Dreams
Volatility comes in waves when it comes to cryptos. But waves of another kind — the kind that come complete with ships,...
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1.4KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Mastercard CEO Calls Crypto ‘Junk,’ Iran Moves Forward With Crypto Plans
Iran is reportedly gearing up to create its own national digital currency, Fortune reported. According to reports, a plan is in the...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsSamsung Unit Afoul Of Accounting Law, Regulator Says
South Korean financial regulators said a unit of Samsung, Samsung BioLogics, intentionally breached corporate accounting rules, Reuters reported Thursday (July 12). The...
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1.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: India’s Top Court Keeps Crypto Ban, Crypto Thefts Top $761M In First Half Of 2018
The top court in India is keeping in place a ban that prevents banks, financial institutions and other regulated entities from providing...
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8.6KBitcoinAmid Hacks, Bitcoin Is Still Not Ready For Primetime
What’s a currency to do when it can take down the internet? Gain in price, amid growing clamor for it, of course....
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6.8KBitcoinSouth Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange Hack Sends Price Of Bitcoin Lower
Coinrail, a small South Korean cryptocurrency exchange that disclosed over the weekend it was hacked, sent the price of bitcoin lower. The...
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1.7KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Bank Hackers Demand $1M in XRP, South Korea Confiscates $1.4M Bitcoins
Investors who thought they would get stock in a blockchain project were bilked out of approximately 300 million yuan – or nearly...
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3.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: UK Brokerage Tests Ripple’s xRapid, Filipino Banks Pilot Ethereum Blockchain
Months after South Korea’s Financial Services Commission banned token sales, the country’s National Assembly is seeking to allow some initial coin offerings...
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4.7KPayment MethodsChinese Millennials Drive Spike In Overseas Alipay Use This May Day
There’s nothing like a holiday to get people spending — and it’s not just Christmas and Hanukkah. In America, holidays like Halloween,...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsSamsung BioLogics Threatens Lawsuit After $6 Billion Devaluation
In the latest accounting scandal to hit a major global corporation, Samsung’s biotech unit, Samsung BioLogics, suffered a $6 billion market value...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsKorea’s Top Crypto Exchange Joins Blockchain Procurement Project
South Korea’s Korea Credit Data, a FinTech startup that operates in the small- and medium-sized business accounting software market, said it is...
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6.5KBitcoinTwo South Koreans Sentenced For $20M Bitcoin Scam
Two men from South Korea were sentenced for running a bitcoin pyramid scheme that stole around 20 billion Korean won ($20 million)...
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2.4KInternationalSouth Korea Detains Head Of Coinnest, Other Crypt Exchange For Embezzlement
The head of two cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea were detained by law enforcement for allegations they embezzled the assets of customers....
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4.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Bitpay Notches $40M In Funding, Russian Hotels To Take Crypto During World Cup
Bitcoin rose above the $7,000 level on Monday (April 2) after falling 25 percent last week, CNBC reported. Bitcoin was trading at...
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5.4KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Allianz Says Bitcoin Bubble To ‘Burst,’ South Korea Seizes Crypto Exchanges
Bitcoin may be headed for another fall, CoinDesk reported. Charts are suggesting that a sell-off is possible – and the cryptocurrency could...
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4.0KSouth East AsiaHead Of South Korea’s FSS Steps Down Due To Hiring Scandal
The head of South Korea’s financial watchdog, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), has resigned after questions have surfaces about hiring practices at...
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5.7KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Bitcoin’s Continued Nosedive; Coincheck’s Reimbursement Plan
As regulators crack down on cryptocurrency exchanges, bitcoin slid again on Thursday (March 8) by 7 percent over a 24-hour period. Following...
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5.2KMobile PaymentsSouth Korean Starbucks Accepts Alipay For Tourists
Chinese tourists looking for a coffee fix in South Korea are in luck, as more than 1,000 Starbucks locations across the country...
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3.5KSecurity & FraudOlympic Officials Mum On Cyberattack
Winter Olympic Games organizers have confirmed that while there was a cyber attack during the opening ceremony on Friday, it didn’t affect...
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4.6KInternationalMedaling, Outside The Olympic Arena
The Winter Olympics are in full swing in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Opening ceremonies took place Friday night, local time (early Friday morning...
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3.3KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Keeps Plunging, North Korea’s Crypto Hacks Net Billions
North Korea hacked into South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges last year, and the country still hasn’t stopped trying to steal digital coins, South...
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5.1KBitcoinSouth Korea Says It Will Not Ban Crypto-Trading
In one of the bigger back-and-forth stories in digital currency, South Korea has announced that it is definitely for real this time...
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South Korea Shuts Down Crypto Trading From Anonymous Accounts
South Korean crypto enthusiasts will no longer be able to use anonymous bank accounts for coin trading starting on January 30th. The...
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Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Hacks Top $400M
Cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea will be gearing up for a massive tax bill as the country seeks to clamp down on...
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5.5KInternationalBitcoin, Peers Slammed On South Korean Tax Fears
And the wild ride, of course, continues. Bitcoin, the marquee name and poster child for cryptocurrencies, had a rough go of it...
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11.8KSizzle/FizzleSizzle Fizzle: Apps Sizzle, Startups Fizzle And Regulators Battle Bitcoin
Fizzle of the Week: Cryptocurrency Regulation The saga over bitcoin and its relationship to various regulators has become something of the payments...
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4.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: South Korea Officials Traded Bitcoin Before Ban
In what could be the largest investment of its kind in a blockchain-related firm, a French startup that makes hardware wallets for...
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3.9KBitcoinSouth Korea Crypto Ban? No Sweat, Say Traders
The looming specter of regulatory crackdowns in South Korea on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies may leave one population collectively shrugging: crypto traders....
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4.1KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Cryptocurrency Loses $100B, BitConnect Shutters Exchanges
It seems that North Korean hackers have moved on from movies … to cryptocurrency. The same North Korean hacking group involved with the...
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South Korea Petition Demands Government Keep Bitcoin Alive
In South Korea, a petition seeking a halt to the government’s bitcoin crackdown has gathered momentum — to the tune of more than...
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4.6KBitcoinBitcoin Drops To Four-Week Low On Crackdown Concerns
Bitcoin dropped 14 percent Tuesday, hitting its lowest point in a month and trading at below $12,000 a unit as concerns are...
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5.6KRegulationGermany Talks Tough On Bitcoin Regulation
With regulators around the world calling for rules and laws governing trading in cryptocurrency, a director of Germany’s central banks said rules...
