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John Kiff

SIX Stock Exchange May Issue Its Own Token, Says Exec - 0 views

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    Swiss stock exchange SIX's digital exchange will go live with a native token and an "initial digital offering" (IDO) service in 2020. That would follow a trial expected to be completed late this summer. https://www.coindesk.com/six-stock-exchange-may-issue-its-own-token-says-exec
John Kiff

Fidelity to Roll Out Crypto Trading 'Within a Few Weeks' - 0 views

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    A Bloomberg report on Monday, citing "a person familiar with the matter," said that Fidelity will roll out the service for trading bitcoin "within a few weeks" and will focus on institutional, not retail, customers.
John Kiff

Bitcoin's Lightning Comes to Apple Smartwatches With New App - 0 views

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    Transactors can use the smartwatch app to generate a QR code - a square-shaped barcode - that someone else can then scan with their smartphone to send over a payment.
John Kiff

From lock-in to loyalty: Self-Sovereign Identity & Data Portability - 0 views

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    Combining a self-sovereign digital identity system with a system of consent receipts not only ensures that a company handles its customers' personal data correctly, but also that a company can now recognise its customers no matter what products they buy.
John Kiff

Bitfinex Plans To Exchange New Lamps For Old - 0 views

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    Bitfinex's parent company, iFinex, has come up with a brilliant scheme to plug the gaping hole in its balance sheet. Why not sell some new tokens? Rather a lot of tokens, in fact - a cool 1 billion of them.
John Kiff

Beware the Fake Bitfinex White Papers Appearing Online - CoinDesk - 0 views

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    As speculation and impatience arises over the upcoming Bitfinex token sale, opportunistic fakers are creating bogus white papers that purport to describe the details of the upcoming sale. Why? To scam potential buyers out of their cash.
John Kiff

Warren Buffett Calls Bitcoin a 'Gambling Device' - 0 views

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    "Buffett's characterization of Bitcoin as a fraud-filled arena is particularly rich given the plethora of indictments against Wells Fargo, a bank which Berkshire Hathaway owns almost 10 percent."
John Kiff

CB Insights Global Fintech Report Q1 2019 - 0 views

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    A data-driven look at global financial technology investment trends, top deals, active investors, and corporate activity in Q1 2019.
John Kiff

'Not a White Paper': Marketing Document Details $1 Billion Bitfinex Token Sale - 0 views

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    New details are emerging about a planned $1B token sale by iFinex, the parent company of Bitfinex and Tether, who are being sued by the state of New York for covering up a $850M loss in customer funds.
John Kiff

Blockchain Hype Missed the Mark, and Not by a Little - 0 views

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    Blockchains remain high-cost solutions, often beset by chaotic competition, and they exist in ecosystems beset with dishonesty, fraud and human error. Blockchains might have a chance to change the world someday, but there's also a chance they will prove useless.
John Kiff

Indictment reveals new clues in the Crypto Capital situation - 0 views

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    Crypto Capital founder Reggie Fowler is being charged by the SDNY with bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and of running an unlicensed money transmission business and conspiracy related to its operation. Crypto Capital were the money transmitters for Bitfinex and Tether.
John Kiff

Crypto Capital and Bitfinex's missing millions, and Reggie Fowler - 0 views

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    Crypto Capital were the money transmitters for Bitfinex and Tether. They operated in the US through Global Trading Solutions. The founder of GTS, Reggie Fowler, was indicted on Tuesday. The US Government has filed a motion to detain Fowler as a flight risk.
John Kiff

Young people and their phones are shaking up banking - 0 views

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    "The mobile phone allows financial products to be linked with other services in novel ways."
John Kiff

Binance, OKEx and KuCoin Are Using IEOs to Command the Spotlight - 0 views

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    Token sales haven't stopped since the 2017 boom. They've just changed names. Initial exchange offerings (IEOs) - where a cryptocurrency exchange offers a direct listing and launch campaign for a new startup token - are earning blockchain companies millions in 2019.
John Kiff

South Korea: Financial Regulator Authorizes 9 Fintech, Blockchain Firms for Trial Opera... - 1 views

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    The South Korean Financial Services Commission has authorized nine fintech companies to operate in the country as part of its regulatory sandbox. Over 100 companies have applied for the program since its January launch.
John Kiff

Korea kick-starts financial regulatory sandbox experiment (April 1, 2019) - 0 views

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    South Korea's financial regulatory sandbox policy went into effect Monday, with the Financial Services Commission selecting 19 innovative fintech services for "priority review."
John Kiff

Ripple Partners with Ria Money Transfer to Power Instant Global Payments - 0 views

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    Ria Money Transfer has joined the RippleNet blockchain-based global payments network. Ria is one of the largest payment service providers in the world, With customers in over 155 countries, and $40 billion in money transfer volume per year.
John Kiff

Singapore Central Bank Says It 'Does Not See Much' in Ripple's Cryptocurrency - 0 views

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    Sopnendu Mohanty, chief fintech officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore: "We don't see much in the Ripple bank digital currency, but definitely still a lot of hope that we can remove a lot of inefficiency […] when it comes to cross-border payments."
John Kiff

OCC official provides more detail on financial innovation pilot - 0 views

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    The OCC Innovation Pilot Program would be offered only to OCC-regulated banks that need regulatory guidance on offering an innovative product or service to the market. A bank can partner with a fintech firm in the pilot or the bank can join others in offering a consortium-backed idea. The program is distinctly different from the OCC's new special-purpose charter that is open to a nonbank fintechs.
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