tokens

Bitcoin Daily: Electrum Hackers Steal $4M With Bitcoin Phishing; US Crypto Startup Chainalysis Raises $6M

eToroX — the blockchain division of social trading platform eToro — is launching a new cryptocurrency-only exchange desk for pro traders that...

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Bitcoin Daily: Trustology Debuts iPhone-Controlled Crypto Vault; FINMA Says $90M ICO Illegal

Trustology has launched an iPhone-controlled crypto vault that is reportedly safe enough for financial institutions (FIs). TrustVault is now available in the...

Anti-Bitcoin Banker Says Banks Shouldn’t Create Tokens

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BIS Bitcoin Critic Says Banks Shouldn’t Create Crypto Tokens

Agustin Carstens, the general manager at the Bank for International Settlements, said that banks shouldn’t issue their own bitcoin-like tokens because it...

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Overstock CEO: Earnings Report Will Reveal Blockchain Ambitions

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne wants to make it perfectly clear that his company’s future is in blockchain. “It’s still confusing to most...

Bitcoin-blockchain-crypto-france-australia-north-korea

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Bitcoin Daily: FBI Searches For BitConnect Victims; Commerzbank Completes Blockchain Test

Japanese internet giant Recruit Holdings launched a $25 million blockchain fund, which closed in November and only became public after the company revealed...

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Bitcoin Daily: QuadrigaCX’s Crypto Moves To EY; Samsung Unveils Smartphone With Built-In Crypto Key

Most of the wallet contents from digital currency exchange QuadrigaCX have reportedly been sent to Ernst & Young (EY), a monitor appointed...

BTG Pactual To Launch Security Token Offering

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Investments

Banco BTG Pactual To Raise Millions Via Security Token Offering

An investment bank located in Brazil is raising millions of dollars via a security token offering, as reported by CoinDesk. According to...

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Bitcoin Daily: HSBC — Blockchain Makes FX Trade Cheaper; QuadrigaCX Representation Delayed In Court

HSBC‘s blockchain-based system has helped the bank save 25 percent on foreign exchange (FX) trades. The bank facilitates payments across its American,...

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Bitcoin Daily: Binance Accepts Credit Cards For Crypto; Bitcoin Set For Six Straight Months Of Declines

Binance is allowing users to buy digital currencies with their credit cards, according to an announcement from the crypto exchange. Through the...

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Bitcoin Daily: Ripple, Chinese University Debut Blockchain Scholarship; UK Reg Drafts Crypto Assets Guidance

The Institute for FinTech Research at Beijing’s Tsinghua University (THUIFR) has unveiled a blockchain scholarship program with Ripple’s help, Cointelegraph reported. Through the...

EmTech Develops Gold With Shariah Certification

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Security & Fraud

Emergent Technology Develops Shariah-Certified Gold Supply Chain

Emergent Technology (EmTech), a finance and technology company, announced on Monday (Jan. 21) that its blockchain-based gold supply chain ecosystem (RG SCA)...

Fundbox, Brandwise Execs: How Net 60 Helps B2B

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Blockchain Tries To Jolt B2B eCommerce Into The Digital Age

The complexities and demands of B2B eCommerce can be significantly greater than those of the consumer digital shopping realm. While that characteristic...

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Bitcoin Daily: IBM Unveils Blockchain Projects; ICOs Notch $12.8B In ‘Team Profits’

IBM is planning to use blockchain to help monitor supply chains in the metals industry, CoinDesk reported. In one case, the technology...

Billtrust Collections Help Suppliers Get Paid

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Blockchain Makes Inroads Into Banking

Banks are giving the nod to blockchain to aid in speeding trade finance, especially in Asia, where the government and industry associations...

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Factris Consolidates Factoring Market With Acquisition

Netherlands-based factoring company Factris has announced the completion of its takeover of Lithuanian firm DEBIFO, the companies said Monday (Jan. 14). According...

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SEC Accepts 287 Form D Filings For ICOs

Fundraisings accepted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that were related to initial coin offerings (ICO) soared in 2018: According...

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Ireland Crypto Regulation Looms

The volatility of cryptos — and the emergence of any number of blockchain and tokenization projects through the last year — has...

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Bitcoin Surpasses $4K For The First Time In Two Weeks

Bitcoin, the leading digital currency, is having a bit of a resurgence this week. Surpassing $4,000 for the first time in two weeks,...

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Cryptocurrency Auditions For Role In Hollywood’s Financial Supply Chain

The allure of blockchain was its potential to be a catch-all solution, but as innovators take a more practical approach to introducing...

Q1 Earnings: IBM Moves Toward Cloud, Blockchain

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Ethereum Co-founder Sounds Off On IBM Blockchain

Ethereum’s co-founder doesn’t seem impressed with the IBM blockchain. The company has been among the firms investing both money and mind power...

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Community Banks Debut FinTech Alliance

In the United States, a consortium of collaborators across FIs and FinTech firms has taken shape. Across the Pond, joint efforts among...

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Legal

Ripple, XRP Investors Lawsuit Heads To Federal Court

Ripple, the cryptocurrency startup behind the XRP tokens, and its affiliated defendants have filed documents to move a consolidated class action lawsuit to...

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Is The UK’s Mulling Of Crypto Derivative Ban A Sign Of Things To Come?

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies trade at levels far off peaks, a bit above lows. There is hope that new trading opportunities — such...

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Bitcoin Daily: JD.com Unveils Blockchain Lab; Crypto Ticker App May Be Targeting Macs

JD.com is teaming up with two schools to study distributed ledger technology’s (DLT) implications on business, Cryptovest reported. The Chinese eCommerce retailer...

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Bitcoin Daily: Sony Launches Digital Asset Wallet; UK Shelves Digital Gold Plan

The Royal Mint in the U.K. has put plans for a digital gold token called Royal Mint Gold (RMG) on hold, Reuters...

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Bitcoin Daily: Oracle Unveils ‘Blockchain Applications Cloud’; Coinbase And Circle Start ‘CENTRE Consortium’

HTC is bringing an early iteration of its Exodus 1 blockchain phone to “cryptographers and developers from all over the world,” according...

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Mastercard

Mastercard Digital Commerce Suite To Make Every Card ‘Token Ready’

Mastercard said Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce...

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Digital Payments

Visa Adds 20 Partners To Fast Track ‘Credentials On File’ Tokenization

Visa announced today the commercial expansion of its Visa Token Service for “credential-on-file token requestors.” This expansion involves adding 20 acquirer gateway...

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Regulation

Singapore Eyes ‘Bringing Together’ Banks And FinTech Firms

FinTech and FI collaborative efforts are getting a leg up and support from regulatory bodies. In Singapore, the goal is a balanced...

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Banco Santander Settles On Ripple For Settlement

Banco Santander will use Ripple's ledger through OnePay FX, expanding XRP's presence. In Singapore, cross-border efforts gain traction as Wallex gets funding.

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Bitcoin Daily: Rising Electric Rates Challenge Bitcoin Mining Profits; Bitwala Plans Blockchain Account With solarisBank

Bitwala is teaming up with Germany-based solarisBank to roll out a blockchain bank account, CoinDesk reported. While the service is targeted for...

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Gold: Sourced Digitally, Ethically And Via Blockchain

Can blockchain help improve transparency of — and even the ethics surrounding — the gold supply chain? Emergent Technology Holdings helps track...

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Bitcoin Daily: Google Nixes Ban On Crypto Ads; Crypto Firm Sponsors Houston Rockets

Google has decided end its ban on advertising related to digital currencies, CNBC reported. Beginning in October, regulated crypto exchanges will have...

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Ripple Co-founder Dumps XRP Tokens, XRP Takes $9B Hit

Easy come, easy go? For XRP, the maxim holds true into a new week. Bulls are no doubt looking wistfully at last...

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The Rippling Debate Over “Security” Whipsaws XRP Token

Is Ripple – specifically the XRP token – the platypus of the crypto world? Turns out the debate over whether it is...

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The Case For Blockchain-Backed AI Capabilities

This might be an interesting way to earn some digital income: Become a part of Skynet and help spread the gift of...

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Overstock Shares Fall Amid Token Sale Probe

After a U.S. regulator asked Overstock.com for information related to its planned sale of digital tokens, the eCommerce retailer’s shares tumbled more than...

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$400 Million Of NEM Coins Vanish From Coincheck

Four years after the collapse of Mt. Gox, Coincheck, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has said that about $400 million worth...

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Bitcoin Processing Fees Skyrocket

Bitcoin’s value isn’t the only thing topping the charts: New data by BitInfoCharts shows that people are currently paying $28 on average...

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Payments Innovation

Token Certification Fast Tracks Global Open Banking

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of payments and message integration software, announced its VolPay Hub is now fully tested, qualified and...

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Investments

For ICOs, Smoke, Sizzle, Or SoS?

The 1960s TV show “Lost in Space” featured a robot that would stand pat, robot arms akimbo, shouting in its robot voice,...

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DBS Tokenizes The Smartphone For Corporate Payments

Singapore’s DBS Bank is doing away with physical tokens for some corporate payments. Reports on Wednesday (Oct. 12) said DBS is nixing...

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Merchant Innovation

BitScan Partnering With Waves To Launch Crowdfunded Loyalty Program

BitScan, a merchant-backed loyalty program, has announced a partnership with Waves, a custom blockchain tokens platform, to implement a new type of...

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News

Tokenization Solution Accelerator Debuts

To help enterprises, issuers and issuer processors establish their own EMV-based tokenization systems, global business consulting firm Virtusa launched its vToken solution...

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Controversial

The Big Buy-In Edition: How Visa, Google and Greece Are Investing In The Future

We at PYMNTS like to imagine that while the markets wait, watch and speculate today about the future of PayPal as an...

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News

Verifone: “EMV Is No Cure-All”

The payments industry is the midst of a sea change, with EMV looming and new regulations mandated by the third iteration of...

International

EMVCo Membership Grows With Eight More Members

EMVCo, the industry governing body that oversees standards related to the EMV chip cards and payments including tokenization and 3D Secure, said...

Merchant Innovation

Visa Takes Tokens Online

Later today, Visa CEO Charlie Scharf will take the stage at Stanford University to explain the next evolution of fighting cyber-criminals, making...

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