CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

financial system, has been used mainly in the past against banks and other financial institutions and in most cases has forced the institution to close. This type of action, a rarely used so-called death-knell sanction that cuts off the entity from the U.S. Lisa Monaco. said Wednesday. Deputy Treasury Secretary. Wally Adeyemo.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In a move to strengthen its digital money platform with secure payment applications, Uphold has acquired Cortex MCP. Cortex’s mobile-centric, closed-loop payment and secure tokenization solutions provide industry-leading technologies and security to our platform,” Uphold COO William Dennings said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

With Visa and Mastercard each having made significant investments to capture more of the SMB segment through an array of payment rails, including card, ACH, and proprietary networks, SWIFT is joining a competitive landscape that aims to overhaul the payment rail status quo. Billhop Eases B2B Card Acceptance. and Sweden, it noted.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Hong Kong’s chief securities regulator is calling on the world regulators to get on the same page when it comes to Facebook’s Libra to avoid the “real risk of regulatory arbitrage.”. “If In 2018, the crypto world was seen to be of marginal importance to the global financial system.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Smith went on in his speech to say that the lessons learned from the Bitfinex hack have improved the digital currency environment. Perhaps, with a few more $60 million learning opportunities, bitcoin should be well on its way to an established, viable currency. Secure, scalabale integration … that old thing. Cabs With Crypto.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Earlier this week, blockchain arrived on Capitol Hill by way of the formation of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus focused on examining and educating lawmakers on the payments technology and issues associated with the digital currency. can continue to secure its stance as the global leader of ingenuity.”. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Rep.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If there was a transparent use for a company that had value to shareholders, they would be willing to effectively invest their money in order for that company to do what it does to grow whatever it’s growing. It’s because those billionaires are invested in markets that their wealth is propelling up so much.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

Minister of Finance Wopke Hoekstra and Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Minister of Justice and Security, sent a note to Parliament on Monday (July 1) explaining a three-part approach to limit the risks associated with cryptos — an effort to make the country a leader in the fight against money laundering.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Blockchain could have an impact on the economy — is Russia leading the way with its current investments? With eCommerce transactions moving at the speed of light, the ability to have transparency between parties is likely crucial to preventing security breaches.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Visa and Mastercard both benefit as paper currency or checks turn toward electronics,” said Moshe Orenbuch, an analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG, who has a buy recommendation on both stocks, in an interview with Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Yet, as scoutbee Founder and Managing Director Lee Galbraith explained in a recent interview with PYMNTS, product quality and prices are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to strategic vendor sourcing, and what it means for corporate security, digital transformation journeys and bottom lines. ”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

at the hands of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), bringing prices down below $1,000 for the first time in months, not all news has been bad news. As with other bitcoin payment processors, the POS system developed by bitFlyer will allow the store to accept the digital currency and immediately convert funds to yen.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Massachusetts securities regulators recently sued the company , alleging that it exposes investors to “unnecessary trading risks” and prompts inexperienced investors to trade frequently through the “gamification” of stock-market investing. Robinhood denied the charges, but recently agreed to pay $65 million to settle U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

It announced an investment in Digital Currency Group, a bitcoin/blockchain startup-focused investment firm, which includes former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is serving as an advisor and also put money up. That included security reviews and audits. Western Union just put its toe in the bitcoin/blockchain waters.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I am much more nervous about projects which develop in a dark corner in the financial system somewhere, spread themselves out through cyberspace and one day are too big to be stopped,” Mark Branson, CEO of Swiss financial supervisor FINMA , said at a Bloomberg event in Zurich. Most backers have also invested $10 million each.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Germany and other NATO countries have been told to impose trade and investment sanctions upon themselves that will outlast today’s proxy war in Ukraine. centered dollarized economy, or a multipolar, multi-currency world centered on the Eurasian heartland with mixed public/private economies. banking and financial system.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

What do you get when a group of esteemed observers and participants in the financial system — among them Nobel laureates and billionaires and not a few government officials — chime in, as one, about the lures and lunacy of unchecked speculation? You get cause for concern. Food for thought.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Consider the money being poured into it. trillion in 2021.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

After all, crime is committed not just with guns, but also with currency, with funding from far-flung sources. Adjaoute noted that banks invest billions around the world to comply with existing rules and regulations — and scramble when the playing field shifts. Regulation and technology must go hand in hand to combat the bad guys.

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Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Key features — The top features each platform is known for or has invested in. Since Workday acquired Adaptive Planning, they’ve invested a lot in making the two systems work well together. It also offers convenient multi-currency management. Customer success. Some clients have reported implementations of over a year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. There’s only so many things you can buy on the dark web though.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Some do — and below we talk about how to increase the odds that you, or the company you are investing in, are one of them.). It’s going to leapfrog those sleepy big giant payments networks. Is it one those amazing blockchain things?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It is the full history of financial speculation. His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. So you study history at Trinity College.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

He began investing in them long before he bought one. and isn’t favored only by one of the world’s richest men who happens to buy and invest in them. The network is valuable because it connects all the end points to which those payments must be made and complies with the regulations that assure the secure movement of those funds.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. He helps to oversee $2.5 RITHOLTZ: Really?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

It’s a storyline with some very strong parallels to the cryptocurrency stories being told and the investments that they now garner. These early advocates have stimulated a vast amount of investment into this vision; $1.7 billion has been invested into bitcoin/crypto-related ventures over the last eight years.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

When it comes to global investing, money comes with a price. But given a few signal and seismic events on the geopolitical stage these past several days, it’s a statement that has some, well, currency – and it’s current, see? His investments have included Apple, too, dating back to 1997. We’ll stop with the wordplay now.).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

The announcement today establishes Libra as the foundation for a new, low or no cost, global payments and financial services ecosystem, one built by Facebook, to give billions of people access to the “internet of money.” The ecosystem’s first application is a stand-alone digital wallet, Calibra. I explain how it all works below.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money. The end of this month, Oct.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Cars , today, have the capability to meter usage for insurance premium billing, and to order (and pay for) food and fuel from in-vehicle systems. It’s an experience that retailers are embracing and investing heavily in. In the payments and commerce world, that’s not much time at all. That’s not surprising.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

’cause there’s a lot you can do if you are willing to run the risk that like maybe the Securities and Exchange Commission will sue you or like maybe you’ll go to jail for a year, you know, but maybe you’re gonna make a lot of money first. The, it’s not even return on investment, here’s our $50 billion.

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