Cryptographically secure tokens (cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets) have seen unprecedented retail and institutional interest. Mostly built on blockchain, cryptocurrency’s distinct properties of security, privacy, and fungibility are making everyone rethinking markets and products. We cover FinTech players in the parallel token economy including wallets, exchanges, payment gateways, market data providers, and many more.
Financial technology firms in Europe raised ~$3.13 billion across 150 deals that took place between January 1, 2018, and May 31, 2018. In total, there...
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The application of blockchain technology for operating registries – whether land, business, or estate – has seen certain development by a few governing authorities and...
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The potential of social entrepreneurship is yet to be explored by the tech community around the world. It comes in many shapes, one of which...
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The consolidation of resources (financial, talent, technology, and ideas) in the financial services industry is gradually balancing the market and relationships between startups and institutions....
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One’s identity is a centerpiece of every aspect of his/her life – financial and social standing, health, family welfare, employment, education, etc. Identification – whether...
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A significant part of the global population lives in a mobile-first world, consuming or at least performing a research on a range of services and...
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“The value of a traditional security-like financial asset is straightforward to model, and usually translates into the famed discounted cash flow equation. Its subset of...
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The best things happen when regulations and technological innovations go hand-in-hand. One of the biggest stories of tech-disruption in the past few years has been...
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One of the biggest problems with ICOs when compared to IPOs is the adequacy and reliability of information disclosed in whitepapers. Unlike IPOs, ICOs have...
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Following the examples of US with Zelle, Australia with NPP, and India with UPI, Japan’s banking sector takes control over the payments segment in the...
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Africa, a highly diverse in business opportunities continent, is the largest unserved market that has dropped out of sight of the global financial system. Reasons...
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An increasing number of institutions and regulatory bodies are weighing in on cryptocurrencies – their role, impact, and potential. While opinions vary and sometimes change,...
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The world of cryptocurrency is full of uncertainty, and the absence of a substantial experience with this asset class makes it a difficulty for the...
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Anticipating the EU bodies on the AML duties regarding cryptocurrencies operators, on May 2017, the Italian legislator with Legislative Decree no. 90/2017 introduced – among...
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[Cyrus Fazel] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrusfazelmrfintech/), Founder & CEO of Swissborg, shares his vision of a world where private banking is accessible to everyone, and how technology (trusted...
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How is the future of computing likely to impact the Arab world? Ghida Ibrahim, Data Scientist – Network Infrastructure at Facebook, UK, offers an answer...
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Elizabeth Stark, CEO & Co-founder of Lightning Labs, shares the evolution of the internet all the way to the concept of a completely decentralized virtual...
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The democratization of advanced technologies holds a promise of unimaginable value for businesses. But some companies are much more aggressive in the race for dominance...
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The year 2018 started off on a great note for the global FinTech community. In January 2018, FinTech startups across the globe collectively raised $2.56...
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It’s simply fascinating to read the budget document and observe where the money is earned and spent. This is my second year of reading the...
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As crypto heats up markets and draws the attention of all possibly touched parties, technology companies are seeking to explore new income avenues, one of...
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As it stands, 48% of the world’s population is unbanked and financially underserved, leaving new generations and disparate populations with either a deep distrust of...
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Ant Financial found through data analysis that young women who like tight jeans have their phone screens replaced more frequently. It then launched “screen insurance”...
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Baidu has an unfair advantage over any international counterpart. It’s a legacy technology company in the largest consumer market in the world, which translates into...
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In this inspiring talk, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and well-respected figures in bitcoin,...
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Africa, a highly diverse in business opportunities continent, is the largest unserved market that has dropped out of sight of the global financial system. With...
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Just like the guys who produced and sold shovels made a lot more fortune during the gold rush, something similar is happening in the Bitcoin...
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With demand comes supply, and the old truth proved to be working in 2017 when we saw a significant proliferation of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)....
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It was a big year for FinTech in 2017 – and 2018 is shaping up to be every bit as exciting. Here are some FinTech...
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Bitcoin crosses new highs every other week despite sometimes unfavoring regulations coming into action. Last week was no exception – the value of daily transactions...
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As Bitcoin hits new highs, big FinTech firms flock to the cryptocurrency to meet consumer demand. Whether this is an attempt to ride the wave,...
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Can we actually quantify decentralization? Balaji Srinivasan, CEO & Co-founder of21.co, a company that allows you to replace your public email with an inbox that...
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The regulatory tide is inevitable when it comes to investments of unprecedented scale, involving vulnerable parties. Whether ruled out as illegal or met with hope...
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Most of us are well aware of the concept of decentralized systems. However, amidst the hype over applications, we may not dive into the contextuality...
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To capture the massive growth of blockchain and DLT patents over the last several years, Let’s Talk Payments has partnered with Carneros Bay to release...
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Paris Hilton supports an ICO the same week as the People's Republic of China determines that Initial Coin Offerings or ICOs constitute ‘illegal fundraising.’ Back...
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Bitcoin and the underlying Blockchain technology was invented/created over eight years ago as an alternative means of payment through the mining of digital currency (Bitcoin)...
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Financial services is not a completely free market and for good reason. It’s unreasonable to expect even those who work in the industry to understand...
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MEDICInow! Startup Stories highlights the companies that are shaping the new Financial Technology industry. Keep an eye out each week for new stories! Company Name:...
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MEDICI now! Startup Stories highlights the companies that are shaping the new financial technology industry. Keep an eye out each week for new stories! If...
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The Bitcoin Blockchain underwent a hard fork on August 1, 2017, at 12.37 PM UTC with the block number 478558 being the last common block...
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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) appeared on the horizon in the blockchain world with the first ever such issuance by a company called Mastercoin in 2013....
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The cryptocurrency market is going through a unique moment in Brazil. In addition to the recent optimism with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, we have an...
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If you’ve ever used any VOIP service, like Skype, you’ve inevitably had calls where one (or more) of the participant’s voices is digitized, choppy, and...
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet – the quintessential Shakespearean analogy seems to be losing relevance in today’s rapidly evolving technology...
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As the blockchain-focused community of entrepreneurs expands worldwide, so does the ecosystem aimed to support and nurture top-performing solutions. Being FinTech-focused is not enough –...
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This week we look at the foundations of the FinTech ecosystem. From a global perspective, we are seeing many approaches to implementing FinTech. Each market...
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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...
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Japan’s official recognition of bitcoin as legal tender from Saturday may result in material economic upturn (The Fintech Times) With Japan’s recognition of Bitcoin as an...
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The International Business Machines Corporation recently launched a commercial blockchain platform for enterprises to develop, deploy and test their business applications in a distributed ledger...
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“Singapore has established an enviable position as a leading Asian financial technology center with an exciting innovation ecosystem, a great talent pool and fantastic infrastructure....
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We have watched 35+ FinTech segments through the ups and downs every single day in the last 3.5 years at LTP. We developed a lot...
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Over the past two years, distributed ledger technology (DLT) has seen tremendous interest by investors and financial institutions alike. There have been numerous variants of...
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As the blockchain-focused community of entrepreneurs expands worldwide, so does the ecosystem aimed to support and nurture top-performing solutions. Being FinTech-focused is not enough –...
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Although Switzerland does not always get appropriate attention as a global FinTech hub, that doesn't change the fact that the country has one of the...
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While the commerce world was going through a sea change, so was the world of access and devices; one shaping and impacting the evolution of...
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Scorechain announces the launch of its new bitcoin analytics platform and introduces the Scorechain Index. The Luxembourg-based startup has just released a new version of...
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Ripple announced today that a number of global banks are joining forces to establish the first interbank group for global payments based on distributed financial...
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There are many that profess the path of evolution from cash to cashless is through cash-replacement. Then there are those who knowingly or unknowingly confuse...
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The purpose of this article is to highlight the issues of a consumer who wants to invest in digital currencies like bitcoin and how can...
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The race has been on for a while actually, but the speed has been surging with every other week. Since the end of May when...
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Some estimations suggest that every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created. Moreover, 90% of data is reported to be unstructured. In a chaotic...
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Throughout the three years of dedicated ongoing research in the FinTech space, the LTP team has explored, defined and shaped the global FinTech startup ecosystem...
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The limits haven’t been reached yet in attempts to find use cases for blockchain technology across industries and extract all the benefits distributed ledger can...
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The blockchain technology, which is the distributed ledger foundation behind the ‘bitcoin’ cryptocurrency, has already been recognized as a potential enabler for the accelerated velocity...
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Chicago, IL (June 21, 2016) – The 2016 Mobile Payments Conference (MPC) conference organizers confirmed that blockchain training will be held on the first day of the...
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In my latest LTP article, I have attempted to provide high-level and (hopefully) user-friendly enough (i.e., not requiring high-tech knowledge) overview of the underlying cryptography...
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Ubiquity, the blockchain-powered real estate platform is providing title recording for BITHOUSE; a modular prefabricated house sold for cryptocurrency. Dover, Delaware, USA - June 3,...
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With the increasing momentum in blockchain adoption and the growing number of pilots with distributed ledger technology, the problem with its scalability becomes more important...
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Blockchain technology is making headlines in a stable manner and almost every self-respecting financial institution is now participating in some kind of partnership or another...
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It hasn’t even been a week since we reviewed some cases of blockchain pilots across industries, and news on activities around blockchain and partnerships to...
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The LTP Team had the pleasure of interviewing one of the top professionals in the financial services industry and a judge for the MEDICI Blockchain...
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If you haven’t heard yet about the biggest crowdfunding project in the history, hurry up to get to knowDAO: Decentralized Autonomous Organization. Slock.it, the company that...
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If you happen to be pro-bitcoin, there is no reason to get alerted. Fraud is not a biased matter and fraudsters do not target cryptocurrency...
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For a long time in the blockchain space, we have seen a wide range of financial and non-financial applications as well as an array of...
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There hasn’t been a more difficult time to cut through the clutter and succeed for a startup than in 2016. At the same time, there...
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The key innovation of blockchain is that it represents the new data architecture framework and platform of decentralized trustless transactions, allowing the disintermediation and decentralization...
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As relationships between banks and FinTech startups evolve, the strategies for adjustment are actively changing. While some financial institutions have taken a sit-and-wait position, others...
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Cryptocurrencies have taken a special place in the minds of financial industry professionals as a wide range of cryptocurrencies have reached quite a significant market capitalization and...
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APIs can be fairly called a force that powers innovative solutions bright entrepreneurs come up with in FinTech and beyond. APIs significantly ease and speed...
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Big breaks across industries don't usually happen without VCs backing them. Success stories in most cases have co-authors and in 2016, VCs are the ones...
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Blockchain fever hasn’t been limited to financial institutions. Along with banks and FinTech startups, non-financial players have been paying attention and looking for ways to...
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Coinprism is a free online bitcoin wallet allowing users to store and create their own coin (by coloring bitcoins). Users can create, issue, send and...
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No, there is no mistake here. Bitcoin and blockchain technology have actually found its way into the marijuana industry with some very interesting companies “hiding”...
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Cryptocurrencies seem to be taking a special place in the minds of financial industry professionals as a wide range of cryptocurrencies have reached quite a...
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Third Key Solutions provides consulting and cryptographic key management solutions for companies using decentralized digital currencies, distributed blockchains and asset-tokens. Chainalysis allows to spot connections...
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For a long time in the blockchain space, we have seen a wide range of financial and non-financial applications as well as an array of...
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LocalBitcoins ATM is an affordable and robust machine for automatizing bitcoin exchange businesses. The LocalBitcoins ATM is unique because it does not require an Internet...
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Scandinavian countries are known to be some of the most prosperous and developed ones in the world. The financial services industry in the region is...
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Increasing data breaches, illegal hacking and identity theft cases are raising the demand of the fraud and authentication industry. No entity seems to be immune...
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With a habit of spreading big news and big discoveries around the web, the media has spread a notion that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies overall are significant for...
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For money transmitters, 2016 is shaping up to be a year of rapid changes in the financial industry, much like 2015 was. Innovative new ways...
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RainFin is an online lending marketplace that connects borrowers seeking transparent, cost effective loans with lenders wanting great returns. 22Seven is a free budgeting &...
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Current Business Setup Process in India Today, starting a new venture by an entrepreneur is a painful process. Since 2004, the number of procedures required...
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Only two years ago, FinTech startups from London loved to neatly categorize themselves into a familiar space, be it payments, lending, crowdfunding, PFM, banking, cryptocurrency...
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The LTP team has been actively exploring FinTech ecosystems around the world and its time we look at Netherlands' FinTech companies as there are at...
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DC POS provides a simple, efficient and secure way for customers and merchants to pay with and accept bitcoin over the counter. Coinify is a digital...
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The next stop in our FinTech hub haul is in Stockholm as the Swedish city is considered to be one of the hottest FinTech hubs...
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What are smart contracts and how did they start? One of many advantages of distributed ledger technology is a "smart contract." The smart contract is quite...
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Israel is a particularly interesting market to pay attention to as it has set a notable record – it is the largest exporter of cyber...
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2016 seems to be all about Blockchain. Every self-respecting company is now either in some collaboration with a blockchain startup or has a team dedicated...
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NPCI Implements Unified Payments Interface: National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) initiated the “unified payment interface” to simplify and provide a single interface across all...
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London [Press Release] - Wirex Limited announced the launch of Wirex, the world’s first hybrid personal banking solution that combines the benefits of blockchain technology...
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Bitcoin, as any cryptocurrency, is quite a debatable topic. The opinions are diverse when it comes to the question of security and other risks related...
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As we have been exploring the world of FinTech, it became quite obvious that FinTech is rebellious in nature as it blurs international borders with...
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Since we first launched LTP in August 2013, we have followed very few rules, and only 2 core guiding principles for the content we offer...
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Digital wallets have become so mainstream that a wide range of companies across industries is rushing into the segment. It is quite a controversial topic...
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As we have been exploring FinTech ecosystems around the world, we couldn’t leave the LATAM region out of the radar. While Silicon Valley, New York...
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Regardless of how unique each VC may declare itself, there is a common thread connecting everyone. VCs tend to look around when it comes to...
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All companies have been recently thinking about blockchain in one or another way. Some even went from thinking to testing. Today, the professional community made...
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As the BitLicense drama continues to roll out since last year, it has been a rough time for bitcoin startups working with the cryptocurrency. While...
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An unavoidable moment for FinTech has come with the New York BitLicense last year. What has been a dream for regulators for a while brought...
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As FinTech is firing up operations across industries, tech companies have started feeling the urge to get involved in order to take advantage of the...
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If we thought 2015 was a great year for FinTech, 2016 is going to surprise us. As the LTP team has been actively exploring the...
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As one may have noticed, the FinTech fever is spreading around the world at an outstanding pace. Tech companies, banks and players that are not...
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Blockchain is becoming a word kindergarten children will learn soon. As often as we hear about it in the news, it is still a hot...
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Bitcoin has recently become quite a debatable topic as the opinions are diverse when it comes to the question of whether bitcoin use in terms...
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In our international FinTech ecosystems haul, we have missed one particularly interesting market that has recently become a magnet for FinTech companies on their way...
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An interesting trend has been noticed among major financial institutions around the world recently. Aiming to cut down transaction costs, just today, MUFG was reported...
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SILICON VALLEY, Calif., [Press Release] - Blockstream, the leader in blockchain and related technologies, today announces that it has raised $55 million in Series A funding to...
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Digital currency has become a phenomenon that has gained a lot of attention in the past years. It represents a set of Web-based mediums for...
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A single blockchain startup has recently gained massive attention in the form of more than $60 million from major financial institutions and tech companies among...
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Recently, the LTP team performed an extensive research on banks’ activities around blockchain. However, banks are not the only ones in the race for the...
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$2 billion Japanese conglomerate leads Kraken’s Series B round SAN FRANCISCO, CA – [Press Release] – Global bitcoin exchange Kraken announced a multi-million dollar agreement with...
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National Australia BankBlockchain, the underlying technology behind cryptocurrency, is exciting the world’s major banks. It is considered to be a potentially disruptive force in finance...
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Bitcoin Vietnam Co. Ltd., Vietnam’s first bitcoin exchange, and Coinify ApS, a market leader in blockchain currency merchant processing, have announced a strategic partnership to bring...
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As we have been actively providing an overview of global FinTech hubs with their flourishing ecosystems, it would be almost a crime not to look...
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Gemalto’s SafeNet HSMs secure transactions and cryptographic identities on Symbiont platform Amsterdam – [Press Release] – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital...
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The LTP team has been actively following local and regional FinTech ecosystems around the world and has already covered the awe-inspiring London FinTech, the massive...
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UK Government's Science Office released a report” Distributed ledger technology: beyond block chain”, setting out how distributed ledger technology could transform the delivery of public...
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It won’t be wrong to say that APIs are powering a lot of new FinTech innovation. Apart from the huge drivers for FinTech innovation that...
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff released a paper today that talks about the problems and risks associated with virtual currencies (VCs) and how can...
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On January 15, 2016, the government of Vermont, a small state in the northeastern part of the U.S., published a report on blockchain that includes...
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Israel startup TravelersBox, a provider of airport kiosks for saving leftover foreign currency, today announced that it has secured a $10 million Series A round...
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Bitcoin is a virtual monetary system, a peer-to-peer currency with no central bank. It is based on digital tokens with no intrinsic value. An outstanding...
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Blockchain consortium R3 (R3CEV LLC), a consortium of 42 financial companies that focus on block chain usage, is an innovative firm focused on building and...
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Blockchain technology has been acknowledged as one of the most disruptive innovations since the advent of the Internet. The financial industry has also started looking...
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With Part 2 of the LTP 2016 Predictions Podcast recorded and published last month, we had kicked off our local partnership with payCLT, the network...
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AlphaPoint is a technology company that powers digital currency exchanges and provides institutions aggregated access and order routing to digital currency markets. The platform can...
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As new forms of payments emerge, the need to safeguard the security of consumers has been increasing. The advent of smartphones & new technologies has...
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Ledger, a Paris- and San Francisco-based startup, participated in CES 2016 exhibiting some of its portfolio of hardware to store bitcoins. The company is focused...
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December 2015 was a surprisingly active time for FinTech startups as they raised over a billion dollars around the world. Continuing the momentum of activities...
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Bitcoin became the first decentralized digital currency in 2009; numerous cryptocurrencies have been created since then. Unlike traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies do not have a basic...
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Continuing our world FinTech haul after looking at London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and other international FinTech hubs, we decided to take a closer...
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With the financial industry heating up, banking giants are looking to catch the innovation wave and leverage the opportunities FinTech startups create. One of the...
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Ahmedabad-based mobile bitcoin startup Zebpay has reportedly raised $1-million in its Series A round. The new round was led by growth equity investor Arjun Handa,...
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We have previously discussed the use-cases that are being developed by leveraging blockchain in depth. The year 2015 has undoubtedly seen a heavy spike in...
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Today, California-based blockchain platform provider Gem closed a $7.1 million Series A funding round led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from KEC Ventures, Blockchain...
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1. To start, could you provide a brief about EDC and its blockchain-based securities exchange service? EDC is the company behind Equibit, a peer-to-peer securities...
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As we are about to say goodbye to 2015 in a few hours, we at LTP are really proud to bring to you, our readers,...
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Today Nasdaq announced in an official statement that its blockchain ledger technology, Linq, was able to successfully complete and record a private securities transaction -...
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The year 2015 wasn’t particularly about banks, but it certainly was about FinTech. As bright entrepreneurs found traditional players’ vulnerability when it comes to implementing...
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In this article, LTP talks about the big job switches that have happened in the FinTech space. Eminent bankers have moved from mainstream banking to...
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A look back in 2015 shows that blockchain stands out as an unprecedented innovation in terms of momentum that was created. As covered by us...
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Mike Massaro Mike Massaro, CEO of Flywire (formerly Peer Transfer) shared his thoughts on what the future holds for large cross-border payments. Flywire is a...
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As a continuation of our quest to build a successful FinTech startup in 2016, part two will cover the following topics: How to get funded...
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UK Ensygnia: Based in London, Ensygnia is the company behind the breakthrough Onescan secure mobile transaction platform and its patented process for the confidential exchange...
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MIT Media Lab’s blockchain-based encrypted data marketplace, Enigma, is going to launch its beta version soon, according to its website. Enigma will allow untrusted and...
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Many of my colleagues in the industry are sharing their perspectives for 2015 and their crystal predictions for 2016. LTP co-founder Amit Goel has recently...
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USA: Embroker: Embroker aims to revolutionize the way businesses buy, manage and understand insurance. The company combines the service and expertise of the best-in-class brokers...
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The growing numbers of banks are paying active attention to blockchain technology and various use cases for financial institutions. The range of activities around blockchain...
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Another 12 banks have joined the blockchain consortium led by startup R3 CEV. The consortium now has 42 banks. The consortium is focused on establishing...
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(Discount for LTP subscribers inside the article) Both blockchain and bitcoin have been a trending topic at Let’s Talk Payments, especially when it has to...
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Blockchain tech developer Digital Asset Holdings has named Cristóbal Conde, the former President and CEO of SunGard, and Chris Church, the former Chief Executive for...
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Coinify and Payssion announce a signed partnership agreement that will contribute to the infrastructure and fuel digital currency adoption within Southeast Asia. Coinify’s Asian Expansion...
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We at LTP have closely watched and observed the FinTech section. We have covered many developments in the FinTech space, and one of them is...
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Bitcoin Bitcoin started the whole cryptocurrency story as it was the first decentralized ledger currency. Being a controversial tool, bitcoin certainly has reasons to be...
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Philanthropic investment firm backed by eBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network, announced today in a press release on PE HUB its investment in eCurrency...
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved an S-3 filing for online retailer Overstock.com to issue new publicly traded shares of the company...
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As we come close to the end of 2015, LTP brings to you the LTP Blockchain Momentum Infographic. In the middle of 2015, we brought...
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Nordic countries have always stood out in the hi-tech industry, especially in the field of telecommunications. Sweden, Finland and Denmark are renowned for their highly...
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The head of research at R3 CEV announced that a development team in London is coding the fabric for an open-sourced, generic "shared ledger," which banks...
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Introduced in 2008, bitcoin won the hearts of innovators with no effort. The greatest gift from bitcoin to FinTech was blockchain technology that got the...
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'Tis the time of the year to make predictions. Aditya indulged in this last year too, but unfortunately none of his semi-light-hearted speculative predictions for...
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The prosperity of the FinTech industry has not seen limits yet. With the growing density of the “unicorns” club and speeding up of innovation adoption,...
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Goldman Sachs has filed a patent application with the US Patent & Trademark Office called “Cryptographic Currency For Securities Settlement” for a cryptocurrency called SETLcoin....
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The year 2015 was an exciting year for many FinTech startups globally. With some great funding rounds, acquisitions and investments, these startups saw the rising...
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[Updated] Blockchain has been one of the most awe-inspiring FinTech innovations since the Internet came into existence. Startups are coming up with amazing use cases...
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Fluent, a blockchain-based financial operating network and payment platform built for large companies and their global supply chains, recently announced $875,000 in seed round funding...
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Coinbase, one of the largest bitcoin wallet providers from Silicon Valley, has launched a Visa-branded bitcoin debit card called “Shift Card.” Even though the Shift...
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The leading cloud money platform continues to offer more ways to move, convert, hold and transact instantly, securely and for free San Francisco [includes Q&A...
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In September, we published an article (with an infographic) showing the announcements by different FIs and their partners (if any), along with the potential use...
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Bitcoin is a virtual monetary system which is a peer-to-peer currency with no central bank. It is based on digital tokens with no intrinsic value....
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While exposure to FinTech companies grows, concerns over regulatory and reticence by corporate/institutions to adopt new technologies appear to be key roadblocks for growth in...
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21 Inc.: Founded in May 2013, 21 Inc. is the first computer with native hardware and software support for the bitcoin protocol. Developers can use...
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USForex is part of the OzForex Group, a global provider of online international payment services for consumer and business clients. The OzForex Group has grown...
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Many VCs have poured money into bitcoin/blockchain startups realizing the potential of what could become the “IC engine” of FinTech, and rightly so. Some of...
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Visa Europe recently announced its collaboration with Epiphyte, a provider of blockchain-based software-as-a-solution (SaaS) for immediate financial transactions. Visa Europe Collab and Epiphyte, a recent...
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As bitcoin gained popularity in the FinTech industry, there have been two schools of thought regarding this virtual currency world. There are some users who...
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Banking is a flourishing industry, focused on technological innovations. The trends have been changing year over year with new innovations, increasing number of startups, merger...
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Blockchain technology is the new buzzword right now in the financial services industry. Startups are coming up with amazing use cases for blockchain technology and...
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American multinational technology company Microsoft entered the domain of bitcoin by partnering with ConsenSys, a blockchain venture. Both the companies will be working to develop...
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"The blockchain is one of the most important innovations in the history of finance. Removing the middleman will transform how we transact, finance projects, and distribute capital" said Brian Kelly, investor...
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United Services Automobile Association (USAA) has partnered with Coinbase, a bitcoin wallet provider, to trial a feature that allows a limited group of USAA members...
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There has been a lot of focus on blockchain’s application for the financial world. There are several segments of the FinTech Industry that are already...
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At the Money 20/20 conference held in Las Vegas, NASDAQ announced the initial roster of private company clients for NASDAQ Linq, a platform that allows...
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Every day, small businesses are inundated with yet another service or device to process payments, claiming to make “this one” better, faster and more secure...
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Safe Cash is a digital payment technology that is available to banks, merchants and consumers worldwide. The company is focusing on cash and providing solutions...
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Formation of a Justice League for Blockchain Technology Washington, DC-based trade association representing the digital asset industry, the Chamber of Digital Commerce, announced the formation...
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An outstanding innovation in 21st century payment, bitcoin is attracting increasingly more young customers, gamers and cutting-edge consumers across the globe. According to the latest...
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Remittance (Money Transfer Service) has always been dominated by companies like Western Union and MoneyGram. But new players and startups are trying to make the...
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The mode of payment for goods and services has been evolving since human beings started trading with each other during the early millennia. Over the...
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Blockchain technology company Coinprism has released Openchain, an open source distributed ledger, targeting financial institutions. Here is a quick summary of the features of Openchain...
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This is the LTP Weekly Podcast, where Amit and Aditya discuss the most significant trends in the world of FinTech. We specifically talk about how...
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SnapSwap International S.A. became the first company to receive a bitLicense in Europe, allowing it to offer digital payments, remittances, and currency exchange services in...
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Blockchain is a network approach to making digital currency completely open, decentralized and very difficult to hack, steal or counterfeit. There has been a lot...
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"The Internet of Things could be one of the largest and most exciting verticals for blockchain technology in the coming years." - Ryan Selkis, Director...
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Let’s Talk Payments is where the new global FinTech is. And yet again, we followed it at FinDEVr 2015 on day two in San Francisco...
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Let’s Talk Payments is where the New Global FinTech is. This time we found the New Global Fintech at FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco. FinDEVr...
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Today, Let’s Talk Payments (LTP) followed the first day of FinDEVr 2015 in San Francisco. FinDEVr 2015 features a unique, dual-track agenda over two days...
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Ripple, the cryptocurrency-based payments system, announced that Santander InnoVentures (Santander Group’s $100-million FinTech venture capital fund) is investing $4 million in its recent Series A...
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In some interesting news from the Bitcoin and blockchain world... Bitcoin Exchange Gemini Gets NYDFS Approval to Commence Trading: Gemini Trust Co., the bitcoin exchange...
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Let’s Talk Payments is where The New Global FinTech is and yesterday we followed #FinTech at Silicon Valley Forum’s (SVForum’s) fall conference, The FinTech Revolution:...
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The US Patent & Trademark Office website revealed that Bank of America had filed a patent on a 'System and Method for Wire Transfers Using...
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Disrupt 2015, one of the world’s biggest tech events is underway right now in San Francisco. With the tagline “Startups Start Here”, TechCrunch Disrupt 2015...
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In a major setback to the bitcoin commodity, banks in Australia are closing accounts of bitcoin companies. The decision made by major Australian Banks has...
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the main financial regulator in the US, has announced that virtual currency like bitcoin will now be recognized as...
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Banks have been exploring the multiple ways they can benefit from blockchain. And major IT service providers do not want to be left behind. They...
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Abra, a startup developing a peer-to-peer (P2P) remittance app powered by bitcoin, has recently raised $12 million in Series A financing. Investors in the round...
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Coinalytics has announced that it has raised $1.1M as part of a seed round. The funding was led by The Hive, a Palo Alto-based incubator....
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With funding from Newfund, Kima Ventures, Galitt and a group of business angels, Paymium closes a financing round to accelerate its European expansion. Paymium, Bitcoin...
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Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley based “global innovation platform” that started as an incubator in Mountain View, CA held their first east coast event...
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Visa, NASDAQ, Citi and other prominent payment companies have invested $30 million in Chain.com, a blockchain infrastructure provider for FIs and enterprises. In addition to these...
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It won't be wrong to say that APIs would power a lot of new FinTech innovation. Most FinTech companies now float their products on cloud...
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Similar to the industry’s first report on the various non-financial use cases of blockchain, our article on the timeline of various banks that have shown...
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When we published the industry’s first infographic/report on the various non-financial use cases of blockchain, the response for it was unprecedented with thousands of page...
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Bitcoin is a virtual monetary system which is a peer-to-peer currency with no central bank. It is based on digital tokens with no intrinsic value....
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E-coin, based out of the UK, offers a multisignature bitcoin wallet and bitcoin debit card branded under Visa. It also recently announced their lifelong affiliate...
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Among the various use cases of blockchain, Otonomos—a brainchild of FinTech entrepreneur Han Verstraete—is looking at building a “blockchain-chartered company”. With Otonomos, you can incorporate...
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Alex Batlin, the former engineer heading up UBS’ blockchain innovation lab, told CoinDesk that while financial technologies like peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding platforms are on...
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Interest in blockchain has been coming in from every corner of the world with major ones being banks and technology providers. Banks’ interest in bitcoin...
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There has been tremendous interest in blockchain, the technology on which Bitcoin functions. Nakamoto developed the blockchain as an acceptable solution to the game theory...
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Six months after Google’s wireless service, Project Fi, made the news and we opined on it from a payments and commerce perspective, there are now...
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Let’s Talk Payments had the opportunity to interview Managing Partner at Equibit, Chris Horlacher. Chris is an expert in business strategy, transformation and process improvement. Over the...
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Interview With PayStand CEO & Co-Founder, Jeremy Almond More and more businesses are adopting SaaS technology platforms to streamline outdated processes, but when it comes...
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Let’s Talk Payments has been bullish on the use of blockchain for non-payments purpose. Blockchain technology is exciting and has the potential to change the...
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The concept of blockchain has energized the financial services industry globally. The interest of financial institutions on blockchain is quite evident considering that Santander Bank has identified...
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Bitcoin mining is the practice of adding transaction records to the public ledger of past transactions. This ledger of past transactions is called the blockchain...
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About a year ago, our team at Regalii launched a mobile money solution for the Dominican Republic, allowing immigrants to remit to their families in...
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Blockchain has been one of the most awe-inspiring innovations since the Internet came into existence. Blockchain technology basically allows everyone to hold and make transactions...
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As startups become the buzzword for businesses worldwide, global banks—more than ever—are eager to run hand-in-hand with these new-age, technology-driven companies. Earlier, many large global...
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The online financial industry is experiencing a boom in the IT era. The convenience of using financial applications to manage one’s finances has made them...
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We have witnessed some prominent partnerships established among players in the payments industry. The number of nodes (and complexity) in the payments ecosystem makes it...
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Blockchain Capital has announced the first closing of its second venture capital fund and rebranding from Crypto Currency Partners. It has raised $7 million in...
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Santander Bank is one of the several financial services firm that is trying to figure out how to use the blockchain in traditional banking. UBS...
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BeaconStream is a proximity-based mobile marketing technology built upon Apple’s iBeacon Bluetooth low energy (BLE) capabilities. It is the newest digital marketing method to reach...
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Ryan Zagone, Head of Research for the business development team at digital currency startup Ripple Labs, has been elected to the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments...
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MovieTickets.com, one of the largest online movie ticketing portals in the US, is now enabling film-goers to purchase movie tickets with bitcoin at 985 theaters....
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Gyft, a First Data subsidiary which is an online platform for digital gift cards, has partnered with Chain, a bitcoin API developer, to bring gift...
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LTP has covered the blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure comprehensively since the very beginning. From specialty mining rigs to Goldman Sachs' investments in the space, we...
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Two major Australian banks have joined the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for trialling Ripple payments which has been developed by US-based company Ripple Labs. A...
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LifeLock has sent a notice to five Xapo executives—including Founder and CEO Wences Casares—for breach of contract. LifeLock claims that Xapo was developed at Lemon,...
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New York State issued extensive new rules for companies that operate in virtual currencies such as bitcoin. New York Superintendent of Financial Services Benjamin M....
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In recent news, blockchain financial startup Mirror raised $8.8 million in its Series A round which was led by Ripple Labs investor Route 66 Ventures....
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We have been tracking the evolving Indian money/payments ecosystem for many years and especially since 2013 at LTP. We thought it was time to summarize...
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Last year, Circle came out with native apps for both iOS and Android platforms with the perspective to provide multiple features on its online platform...
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is poised to adopt Ripple technology to enable money transfers among its subsidiaries. Ripple technology basically involves a peer-to-peer...
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Digital currency payments processing company Ripple Labs Inc. has raised $28 million in Series A funding. We had reported in February that the company was...
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The US-based stock exchange, NASDAQ, is apparently testing out the blockchain technology for the NASDAQ private market. This private market is basically NASDAQ’s very own...
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There are many problems with the money systems that have not been solved. There are certain issues that traditional systems suffer with and that include...
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Over the past few years, doing business in bitcoins was a risky affair. Countless centralized services such as Mt.Gox, Bitstamp and others have suffered serious...
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Global Payout, Inc. has filed for patent protection with the Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office for its newly developed agnostic exchange...
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There is a plethora of articles written about Bitcoin every week. I find it difficult to see all of its legs at once, whether it be...
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ShoCard: Startup battlefield contestant ShoCard has launched a digital identity card that stores the identity of its users in the bitcoin blockchain to make the...
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Bitcoin startup Circle has closed a new $50 million strategic investment round co-led by Goldman Sachs and IDG Capital Partners. Goldman Sachs and China-based IDG...
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With the mission to offer bank-level security to its customers and to better regulate operations, US Bitcoin exchange company “itBit” has filed for a banking...
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Listen to a discussion on mobile money, with some fascinating stats from m-Pesa in Kenya, and insights into SnapCash, wrapped up with Red Cross’ support...
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Yahoo, Apple and Bitcoin get discussed in this episode. Will Yahoo do something in mobile payments, with or without Alibaba/Alipay? Brian is spot on about...
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Bitstraat is now targeting the merchant space with its new handheld bitcoin payment terminal called “The Handheld”. Bitstraat already serves as a middleman and links...
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The entire industry is looking forward to the corporate split between eBay and PayPal. Everyone wants to know about the next big move that PayPal...
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NeuCoin (noo-koin), the newest contender to enter the cryptocurrency ring, is soon to arrive at a computer near you — but NeuCoin isn’t just looking...
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Technology powerhouse Samsung is watching bitcoin with a twinkle in its eye. The South Korean company’s American research division seems to have taken a liking...
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Bitwage has announced the release of its international bitcoin payroll debit card. With the release of this debit card, employees and contractors using the Bitwage...
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Orange, a global telecommunications giant, has recently entered the bitcoin space, starting with a campaign that is being spearheaded by its Silicon Valley Branch. Orange...
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OneBit, a Bitcoin startup, is developing an exclusive wallet app that will let users make contactless mobile payments. The best part about OneBit is that...
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Buttercoin is turning off its services on April 10th. Current users have been advised to move their bitcoins to another service and remove their dollar...
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CardinalCommerce, a leading player and pioneer in the remote payments industry, and Bitnet, one of the world's leading digital commerce platforms, have joined forces to...
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Bitcoin still has yet to gain mainstream adoption in the payments industry. A factor that may be slowing down Bitcoin’s mainstream adoption could be the...
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New York Based startup Noble Markets, with the help of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., is bringing a new era of technology to mainstream investing. Nasdaq...
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Here’s what you might have missed on LTP this past weekend, March 20th - March 22nd, 2015: US ATM Network Analytics; Rising Fees and Growing...
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A report was recently released by the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. research division titled The Future of Finance: Redefining the Way We Pay in the...
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Rakuten recently announced that it plans to enable customers to choose Bitcoin as a payment option by integrating Bitnet’s payment processing platform on a number...
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Here's what you missed on LTP this past week, March 16, 2015 - March 19, 2015: Alibaba Poised to Make Face Recognition a Key Biometric...
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Well, not quite – but wouldn’t that be convenient? All too often I find myself plagued by the fragile pieces of paper we assign so...
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It's that time of the year again, when SXSW brings all the focus to our part of the world (the South). It’s one of the...
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LTP is proud to present yet another addition to the trove of resources on the world’s premier destination for payments and digital commerce insights. We...
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With the rising popularity of crypto-currencies, and increasing support for Bitcoin to become a mainstream form of payment, it may lie within the interest of...
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21 Inc., a Silicon Valley startup, now has the backing of some big time investors to take the company’s bitcoin technology to the masses. The...
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Security is a critical aspect of payments and commerce transactions. It is also important for any online business, financial and government agency. Meeting security compliance...
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Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform company, today announced the acquisition of Authy, a leading provider of authentication as-a-service for large-scale Web and mobile applications....
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We have summarized this news for you: Bitcoin Wallet developers, Airbitz, announced that their software now supports Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for Android. This feature...
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We have summarized this news for you: Stellar is inspired by the crypto-currency, Bitcoin, but is designed as an intermediary between conventional currencies or assets Targeted...
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Good news emerged in the Bitcoin space, when Stripe, a Silicon Valley e-payments service firm, officially launched its Bitcoin payments integration system after months of...
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American Express is discontinuing its merchant-acceptance and cobranded credit card agreements with Costco Wholesale Corp. The Costco Amex card accounted for around $82 billion worth...
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Finovate is an internationally recognized conference series that focuses exclusively on showcasing the best and most innovative new financial and banking technologies. Finovate conferences consistently attract...
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The NeuCoin Project has announced its new digital currency that aims to achieve mainstream adoption by being free to try, easy to use, and by...
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Ripple Labs is poised to raise $30 million in a funding round that would include investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, IDG Capital Partners and...
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Coinbase is all set to launch a bitcoin exchange in US today itself. Coinbase got the approval for the same from regulators across 24 different...
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Ingenico Group and Paymium have teamed up to integrate Bitcoin payments on the TELIUM TETRA next-generation terminals. Being an open-source technology, Bitcoin is both a...
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US Merchants who use Braintree’s payments software platform can now enable Bitcoin payments through Coinbase. Customers can now start making payments in Bitcoin provided they...
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Coinbase has raised $75 million in a funding round which involved investors such as DFJ, USAA Bank, NYSE, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and Ribbit...
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A growing number of developers in the digital currency space are looking to contactless technologies to simplify and speed up secure payments. A number of...
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The payments industry is witnessing numerous innovations being driven by startups. The new companies in the payments arena are working hard at disrupting the entire...
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Ongoing developments in the payments industry are not only attributed to technologies and new systems but are also directly linked to talent. The innovations coming...
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Bitcoin seems to have left us high and dry. The virtual currency has hardly grazed the surface. If you compare transactions of Bitcoin with US...
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New York City (NYC) collects more than $600 million in revenue annually from payment of parking tickets. The New York City Department of finance (DOF) recently...
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Stripe’s Bitcoin integration was currently in beta phase but it is all set to come out of that and go live in January 2015. The...
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Watch the Biggest Moments in Payments Industry that Defined 2014. It was a great year for all of us and next year is all set...
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BTXDeals recently announced its live launch and opened its doors to a unique form of online trading with Bitcoins being its sole currency. This exciting...
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Time Inc. has partnered with Coinbase, the popular bitcoin wallet, to become the first major magazine publisher to accept bitcoin payments. The initiative was launched...
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We recently reviewed the payment systems at 14 leading quick service restaurants (QSRs). Here is a summary of what we observed: 10 have their own online/app...
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ChangeTip is a popular social media tipping platform. The company recently announced that it has raised a $3.5 million Seed Round. Bitcoin investment firm Pantera...
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Braintree, the mobile payments platform, is rolling out the One Touch payment experience in countries like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and...
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Payment companies are trying to disrupt the $500+ billion a year money transfer industry used to send money home to families, especially in emerging markets....
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Bitcoin is one of the most talked about subjects in the payments industry today. Braintree’s Bill Ready said recently that it will impact mainstream payments...
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Circle recently released its first native apps for both iOS and Android. These apps will act as critical companion to the web service that was...
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Payment processing companies are trying their best to streamline payments at the checkout. The main objective currently has been to make payment process quicker and...
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently released new guidelines for bitcoin payment processors and trading exchanges. As per the U.S. law, such virtual currency...
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Kraken, a popular Bitcoin trade exchange, and Fidor Bank AG, Germany’s internet direct bank, are teaming up for an initiative to establish a specialized bank...
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Vogogo recently announced a new partnership with Knox Payments to enable its U.S. clients in the digital currency space to accept payment from any U.S....
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Bitcoin, the popular virtual currency, is gaining traction in global markets as a new form of currency. An array of merchants supports Bitcoin including retailers,...
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SnapCard, an online startup, provides a multi-currency, digital currency wallet to buy, store, send and receive digital currencies. It is offering bank-level security and a...
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Bitcoin, the popular virtual currency, is gaining traction in global markets as a new form of currency. An array of merchants supports Bitcoin including retailers,...
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Marc is the most prolific VC investor, thinker, mentor in the tech space. Why do we say that? He has invested and has been associated...
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Bitcoin has been known to show irregularities in its value. This past Sunday, Bitcoin's price fell to a year-to-date low of $290.83. On December 4,...
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Contrary to what many people think, Cryptocurrencies offer many advantages over other mainstream payment mechanisms. They: Eliminate the need of a bank account Require very...
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I hope Google is listening.I hope Apple Pay will one day enable cross border P2P. I hope someone someday will solve my global remittance problem....
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“No more waiting. We're happy to announce that we've opened our doors to a global audience!”, tweeted Circle Inc. on September 29th. Circle is a...
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Ripple Lab wants to show that virtual currencies like Bitcoin are well tested and extremely secure and customers need to trust them in order to...
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Viacom18, a known movie studio based in India, is looking forward to making a movie on the virtual currency Bitcoin. The studio recently bought film...
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Yesterday marked Day 2 of the Money Event and the CTIA Super Mobility Week. It was a great first day with 27 speakers and 6...
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$15 Trillion dollars of retail transactions are the breeding ground for innovation today - from contactless payments to mobile wallets - so much has been...
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We have written a lot about how Bitcoin economy is shaking up the world. Here is a link to some articles we have written in the past. A total...
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Coinbase, a bitcoin-wallet provider, recently announced through an official blog on its website that its customers had had their bitcoins for almost over a year....
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On Aug. 15, 2014, the first e-commerce payment solution designed to handle both bitcoin as well as emerging alt-coins at checkout, GoCoin, released a Click-to-Bill...
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In recent times, we have witnessed the advent of virtual currencies like Bitcoin. But such virtual currencies increase the user's dependency on the specific currency...
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Recently a new Bitcoin vault and wallet, Xapo Bitcoin Wallet, was launched by Wences Casares, CEO and co-founder of Lemon Wallet (which was later sold...
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Thirty-two percent of people between the ages of 18 and 24 say they would consider using alternative currencies, such as Bitcoin, according to a recent...
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There has been a digital disruption causing a dramatic change in the function, purpose and design of payments channel in just over a decade. Wearable...
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Recently, we wrote about satellite TV provider Dish Network beginning to accept Bitcoin. It was big news. On 18th July 2014, another huge announcement was...
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The buzz in the Chinese payments industry has been increasing. Below are three important developments. China Post is looking to invest CNY100 million in mobile-...
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On 2nd July 2014, reators of the fastest and easiest way to buy and sell both Bitcoin and other altcoins – Expresscoin – announced the...
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Denis Kiselev is the founder of SnapSwap that offers services in the virtual currencies space. SnapSwap was established in May, 2012. In January 2013, the...
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The market leader in Prepaid Bitcoin cards www.prepaidbitco.in and the pioneer behind the world’s first Bitcoin Rewards Program www.bitcoinrewards.co, Prepaid Bitcoin, has spent the last several...
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I will admit the title of this post comes off – www.freebitcoins.me – but it is very apt, and since they are the first website...
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We chatted up with Jeremy Almond (CEO, PayStand) recently and wanted to share the discussion with you. He will also be speaking at The Money...
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On 16th June 2014, leading global provider Commerce-as-a-Service solutions – Digital River Inc. - announced it has added bitcoin as a payment option for merchants...
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For a very long time now, VISA and MasterCard have dominated the fintech world, enabling the rails for card acceptance. When an issuer bank has...
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On 14th June 2014, social gifting company – eGifter – announced that it is the first app in the world to be officially approved to...
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Launched in Fall of 2013, 501verify is a crowd based fund raising platform with over 6000 users currently. The company states that many of these users...
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A year back, you would have been hard pressed to buy anything with Bitcoins as there were very few people that accepted the virtual currency...
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The total Social TV market is expected to reach $256.44 Bn by 2017 with a CAGR of 11.2%, according to a new research by MarketsandMarkets....
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UK’s National Crime Agency is giving the public a two week window to gear up against major fraudulent malwares. The malwares in question are known...
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We all know how Bitcoin has taken off in the last year – with the extensive publicity and meteoric rise (and fall) in value; big...
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On 27th May 2014, Bitcoin merchant processor and wallet provider BIPS, announced its partnership with Fidor Bank in order to extend the offer of free...
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On 26th May 2014, former COO of Skype – Michael Jackson – wrote a very intriguing article on Coindesk that explored how Bitcoin companies could...
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Back in November 2013, famous investor and gold proponent – Peter Schiff – had stated that Bitcoin was merely a bubble resembling the “modern day tulip...
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It was announced recently that the San Jose Earthquakes have become the first pro soccer team to accept Bitcoin as a method of payment at...
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Global payment technology provider, Adyen, announced on 22nd May 2014, that it was chosen by OffGamers, one of the world's leading online distributors of gaming...
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Prepaid cards are becoming popular with those who either don't have a bank account or have suffered some financial setbacks and are looking to get...
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Today (21st May, 2014), innovative investment company and Think Tank focused on Bitcoin and Crypto related assets – Cryptor Latam Inc. – announced the formal...
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The leading edge provider of cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions – BizCloud – announced it will begin accepting Bitcoin payments with BitPay beginning May 2014....
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The Google Glass is yet to reach the mainstream market, but it has already created a certain buzz. Developers are rushing to create various apps...
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Circle Internet Financial was launched last year with the aim of increasing the adoption of digital currencies such as Bitcoin by enabling consumers and merchants with...
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What is a currency? Currency is a form of money regulated by a given government in your country. It is considered to be centralized and secure....
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On May 1st 2014, Blackhawk Network, a leading prepaid payment network and a subsidiary of Safeway, which supports the distribution of gift cards, prepaid telecom...
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Back in September last year, Patrick Griffin, EVP of Business Development at Ripple Labs gave Lets Talk Payments, some insights into Ripple. On 5th May 2014,...
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The way digital goods sell is in many ways different from physical world. Bank-led and older fintech solutions were not enough for developers and gaming...
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Over $879 trillion dollars of transactions passed the financial switches: Number of transactions processed by Fedwire, which handles large-scale wholesale transfers: processed 132 million transactions for...
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The Winkelvoss twins are set to make an appearance at beLAUNCH – Asia’s prevalent tech startup conference – on May 14th 2014, in Seoul, South...
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The total value of payments processed through alternative means (i.e. bank transfer, debit cards, wallets, mobile, cash on delivery and others) went up by 21%...
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Last month, we saw the launch of a new Bitcoin vault and wallet called Xapo Bitcoin Wallet by Wences Casares, CEO and Co-Founder of Lemon...
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David Marcus, President at Paypal, shared his thoughts recently on the next wave of mobile innovation. In his article, he states that “These are very,...
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Last year we saw the fall of Silkroad – an online marketplace that operated as a TOR hidden service, and enabled people from anywhere in...
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On 11th February 2014, The Currency Cloud announced a major revamp of its payments service – new streamlined payment integration, new look and other features....
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What's happening to Banks: Bank foot traffic is on the decline. In fact, from 1992 to 2012, branch transactions decreased by nearly 50%. The all-in-cost...
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In November 2013, I had discussed the Coin Card – a new hardware that enables users to store all their cards on a single card...
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I have discussed many a time how Bitcoins could change the face of gambling and gaming Industries completely. Another colossal move that supports this statement...
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On 2nd April 2014, PayStand launched out of private beta to enable US based websites with the option of accepting payments via credit cards, eChecks...
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A few days back i wrote about Stripe beginning to test payments for Bitcoins among certain users. In another major development, payments giant Square announced...
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Bitcoin has dealt with many ups and downs over the last year. The last couple of months however have been on the positive side with...
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When Shopify, Zynga, Overstock.com, TigerDirect and slew of other major retailers began to accept Bitcoin as a method of payment, the writing was already on...
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We have written a lot about how Bitcoin economy is shaking up the world. Here is a link to all such articles we have written in the past. But from...
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With the creation of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakomoto essentially opened up a new stream of innovation. We have seen a number of alternate crypto-currencies or Alt-Coins...
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Vungle, the premier app monetization technology company and in-app mobile video advertising platform, has added bitcoin as a payment option to app developers. Vungle allows...
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On 13th March 2014, Singapore's Central Bank announced its plans to begin regulating virtual currency intermediaries such as bitcoin exchanges and vending machines. This move...
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Remember Wences Casares, CEO and co-founder of Lemon Wallet (which was later sold to LifeLock for $42.6 Mn). Wences has seen a lot in the Wallets...
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A couple of months back, I had written an article about Zynga.com beginning to accept payments for in-game items, bonuses, etc., via Bitcoin and how it...
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We all know how Bitcoin has taken off in the last year - the extensive publicity and meteoric rise of value above $1200; big names...
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Payment Industry News for today from our News Aggregation wing 1. Hothardware - MasterCard Tests Location-Based Mobile Payment Approval System When it comes to mobile...
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With the creation of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakomoto essentially opened up a new stream of innovation. We have seen a number of alternate crypto-currencies or Alt-Coins...
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Payment Industry News for today from our News Aggregation wing 1. Banktech - How MasterCard Is Pushing Mobile Payments Ahead As every player in payments...
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The history of MMORPGs or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games spans nearly three decades. Games such as Lineage and Kingdom of Winds dominated the...
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Balanced is white-labeled web-based dashboard & payments API. It is a payment system designed for marketplaces from the scratch. The company offers two products –...
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Payment Industry News for today from our News Aggregation wing 1. Smartcompany - PayPal’s challenge in the mobile digital wallet wars Increasingly, consumers are opting...
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One of the companies that has been quite busy in the payments industry over the last year or so is Fortumo. And there is a...
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On 29th October 2013, we witnessed the debut of the world’s first Bitcoin ATM. Robocoin first unveiled the ATM at a conference in San Jose,...
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Payment Industry News for today from our News Aggregation wing: 1. Rfidjournal - BANKS PILOTING NFC PAYMENT WITH CREDENSE 2.10 MICROSD Mobile contactless technology company...
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Payment Industry News for today from our News Aggregation wing: 1. Chinadailyasia - Mobile - Enabling Technologies transactions surge 200% Mobile payments accounted for about...
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Payment Industry News for today from our News Aggregation wing: 1. Mobile Payments Today - Magtek offers free queries to fraud prevention database Magtek, a...
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Over the last week, two major Bitcoin exchanges – Mt. Gox and Bitstamp – announced that they would be halting all Bitcoin withdrawals indefinitely. This...
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Payment Industry News for today from our News Aggregation wing: 1. Businessinsider - China Is Developing A Nationwide Mobile Payments Infrastructure THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES A...
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Payment Industry News for today from our News Aggregation wing: 1. Online.WSJ - JETCO selects Gemalto TSM for mobile NFC rollout in Hong Kong and...
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On 10th February 2014, the worlds largest Bitcoin exchange – Mt. Gox – announced that it would be halting all withdrawals indefinitely. On Tuesday, a...
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On 24th December 2013, RBI issued a notice outlining the risks involved for people utilizing Bitcoins. Two days later, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) undertook the first...
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Yesterday there were posts all over the internet reporting the shutdown of services (temporarily) by one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges – Mt. Gox. This...
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What is it that is making the incumbents worried about the dynamic global payment industry? True, everyone has been talking about the reservoir of potential...
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Bitcoin has dealt with many ups and downs over the last year. The last couple of months however have been on the positive side with...
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Payment News for today from our News Aggregation wing: 1. Theguardian - Smartphone swipe payment scheme unveiled Tapping a smartphone on a card reader to...
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In 2013 there were numerous reports of people living off Bitcoin, and charities & donations based on the virtual currency. A couple of months back,...
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Bitcoin has been gaining steadily in terms of acceptance over the last few months. Online giants such as Overstock.com, Zynga, TigerDirect.com and eBay, have started accepting the virtual...
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Payment News for today from our News Aggregation wing: 1. Colombogazette - Airtel, HNB commercially launch Lanka’s first NFC system Bharti Airtel Lanka along with...
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On 28th January 2014, Vera&John became the first licensed and regulated online casino to support deposits and withdrawals in Bitcoin. Although it seems like there...
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A year back, you would have been hard pressed to find a single reliable source to buy Bitcoins from, leave aside selling stuff against bitcoin....
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Payment News for today: 1. Digiday - Why Qualcomm’s Betting Big on Beacons Retail brands and brick-and-mortar stores are abuzz about in-store beacons, the Bluetooth-powered devices that...
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Payment News for today: 1. Reuters - EBay dismisses Icahn proposal to spin off Paypal Carl Icahn has taken a stake in eBay Inc and...
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Payment News for today: 1. LetsTalkPayments - What’s the POS Penetration in US, Canada, UK; and Mobile & Contactless POS? A recently published report, by...
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Since early 2013, Andreessen-Horowitz partners have expressed their interest and ethusiasm in Bitcoin. They have invested nearly $50 M in Bitcoin related startups till date....
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Over the past year, a number of big names have started showing great interest in Bitcoin - Andreessen Horowitz, Richard Branson, Zynga and even Overstock.com. This...
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Let’s take a long-term macro view: Has business model innovation always trumped technology innovation? Not necessarily. Does technology innovation usually enable business model innovation? Absolutely....
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News roundup for today: 1. Thedrum - Coca-Cola explores iBeacons as marketing tool for World Cup sponsorship Coca Cola is testing the viability of using Apple's...
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News roundup for today: 1. News.idg - FinTech Innovation Lab finalists announced. Seven finalists for this year's FinTech Innovation Lab have been announced, showcasing a...
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Overstock had announced a few weeks back that they were considering accepting Bitcoin as a method of payment, but it was touted to take place...
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The Taiwanese Central Bank & Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) have jointly declared that Bitcoin cannot be recognized as a valid form of currency. FSC Chairman...
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The first Bitcoin ATM was installed in Vancouver, Canada on 29th October 2013. Robocoin first unveiled the ATM at a conference in San Jose, California...
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It has only been a couple of weeks since Bitcoin value plummetted to as low as $451 after China’s crackdown on the currency. Today, 6th...
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At Let’s Talk Payments we want you to get all the important Payment News and Analysis, right in your inbox. So we are adding another...
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Virtual currencies are leaving behind every other buzzword in the FinTech industry today, in terms of hype. And virtual currencies are moving beyond hype becoming...
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At Let’s Talk Payments we want you to get all the important Payment News and Analysis, right in your inbox. So we are adding another...
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At Let’s Talk Payments we want you to get all the important Payment News and Analysis, right in your inbox. So we are adding another...
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A year back, you would have been hard pressed to buy anything with Bitcoins as there were very few people that accepted the virtual currency...
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In what could be upsetting news for Bitcoin growth in India, on 26th December 2013 (2 days after issuance of RBI notice), the Enforcement Directorate...
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2013 was easily the best year so far in terms of Angel/VC funding in the Bitcoin segment. The virtual currency Bitcoin garnered a great deal of...
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Watch the Biggest Moments in Payments Industry that Defined 2013. It was a great year for all of us and next year is all set...
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The Bitcoin price has dropped yet again, and fluctuating around $451 on 18th December 2013. It had a rollercoaster ride over the past 3 months...
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This weekend turned out to be more exciting than I had imagined. It could be attributed to the Global Bitcoin Conference that was held in...
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A hot new startup? Not quite. It is Barry Silbert’s new Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT). The trust is open only to accredited investors, and the minimum...
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Marc Andreessen recently revealed that the firm (Andreessen Horowitz) had been meeting with lawyers to discuss the possibilities of investments in the Bitcoin area. Earlier...
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Bitcoin reminds me of the old poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge called The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where he says "Water water everywhere, and...
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Higher the tower, more fingers are raised. After Bitcoin value grew 10-15 times this year itself, Bitcoin has been under the scanner. We even had...
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The rise in popularity of the Bitcoin has accounted for a number of startups and companies providing a Bitcoin payment processing service for merchants and...
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With Bitcoin being the talk of the town, virtual currencies certainly have everybody's attention. Through all the pitfalls, regulations and debates, the fact remains that...
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Yep There’s Gold In Them There Algorithms Over the last year I have had countless people in the tech world ask about the mining of...
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Yesterday, December 4th 2013, Alan Greenspan (ex-Fed Reserve Chairman) told media that “I guess Bitcoin is a bubble. The question is I do not understand...
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Did You Miss The Bitcoin Boat? There Is A New Litecoin Train. One cannot avoid the news of the explosive growth of Bitcoin. Just mention...
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LTP has written extensively about how the Bitcoin economy is shaking up the world. This link will connect readers to 29 such articles. . With this piece, we...
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Of late, there has been a phenomenon that has caught the attention of every trader, broker, or anyone involved in currency market and even the...
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In the last week, Chinese state run TV news programs have been producing short segments about the rise of Bitcoins in the country. Many have...
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Bitcoin has recently started entering the mainstream, and this has necessitated a full featured, professional platform for trading Bitcoin. The beta version of Kraken was...
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One of the most talked about payment startups that is getting everybody's attention is Clinkle. Everybody wants to know what is this Stealth mode startup...
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It looks like there is no stopping the Bitcoin buzz. Shopify, the popular e-commerce company announced on November 9th that it would add the virtual...
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BTCjam is an amazing business model on top of an amazing alternative currency, Bitcoin. It was founded in 2012 by Celso Pitta (CEO) to solve...
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Bitcoin is a digital alternative currency. It's strengths, which also can be seen as it's weaknesses are that it's not regulated by Governments or central...
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There are numerous solutions in the mobile payments market today. In the last two months itself there have been so many more launches from Square...
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Only yesterday we had written about Circle Internet Financial which was launched with the aim of increasing the adoption of digital currencies such as Bitcoin...
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At a recent get together with my friends, the hottest topic turned out to be Bitcoin. Rather than the usual Football wars or Android/iPhone or...
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What are some of the banking trends that will continue to grow in the coming years? Mobility is one area which banks are using as...
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Post one of the recent conferences we got an opportunity to know more about Ripple and how they plan to disrupt the remittance market. Ripple protocol is...
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In Vancouver (Canada), today we will witness the debut of world’s first Bitcoin ATM. Bitconiacs, a Vancouver based broker and local operator has ordered 5...
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I think the world is coming to terms with the concept of Bitcoins. Amidst all the risks and rewards, early enthusiasts are happy it crossed...
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Through one of its blog posts and select media channels, Coinbase announced that they have launched an iOS app yesterday. We checked and found the...
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Bitcoin enthusiasts would love the fact that their Bitcoins can now let them pay for groceries at Walmart stores. Thanks to eGifter, this is now...
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In what could be one of the biggest impetus to the Bitcoin movement lately, Jiasule, an anti-DDoS (distributed denial of service) and firewall security unit...
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The international remittance market is growing at a very fast pace. Remittance market has been always profitable lucrative business & surely has positive futuristic growth....
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The Bitcoin story has just begun and presents an interesting opportunity for the creation of a variety of new businesses. Its edgy, its unclear how...
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The concept of Bitcoin was introduced in 2008 by an anonymous developer under the name of ‘Sakoshi Nakamoto’. The virtual currency debuted with a value...
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Daniel Webster said “a disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils”. The question is whether the current currencies or the currencies like Bitcoin...
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There are multiple ways of mining Bitcoins. The most popular being the traditional way - In this way of mining Bitcoins, a person has to...
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There are speculations over Bitcoins future considering the decision taken by the Senate last week to scrutinize Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. Buttercoin found in...
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While watching payment related videos on Youtube, I came across this amazing video from Paul Kemp-Robertson. I was impressed with how he ties up trust,...
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US Government has started making its move on curbing the flow of Bitcoins. First of such moves by the US Government is to seize $2.9...
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Bitcoin as you know is a virtual currency which is getting quite popular and is causing some serious concerns to the Government(s) and most importantly...
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For a while now, we have been using real money centralized by the banks and backed by our respective Governments. Outside of real money based...
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If you still haven’t figured out where to use Bitcoins, we have figured out the top 10 merchant sites where you could trade your Bitcoins....
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