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JANUARY 7, 2021

Bitcoin hit more than $37,700, a new record high that helped drive the cryptocurrency market beyond $1 trillion, CNBC reported on Thursday (Jan. Since the start of 2021, the cryptocurrency market is up 29 percent, and in the past 12 months, it is more than 380 percent higher. 7), citing data from CoinDesk and CoinMarketCap.

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Global Finance

JUNE 5, 2025

GF : What is HSBC’s strategy for incorporating emerging payment technologies such as digital currencies—including central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)—andhow do you see these impacting your payment solutions? Our innovative analytics tools can detect when a payment is made in an alternative currency.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Despite security threats and political unrest, tiny Togo is attracting outsize interest from foreign investors. The picture is clouded by security challenges arising from attacks by bandits in the northern region and sea pirates’ raids on the coastal south. The rating agencies, too, paint a positive picture on balance.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

But more recently, the pandemic has spurred firms to address pain points in various markets through digital shifts. One firm, tZERO Group , is betting that blockchain can help disrupt capital markets themselves. The private markets are relatively opaque, and relatively less liquid than might be seen on public exchanges.

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CFO News

MAY 2, 2025

The currency markets are essentially hedging markets which are open for trading from 9 am till 3:30 pm with after-market hours trading permitted, effectively making them 24x5 (Monday-Friday) markets.

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Bramasol

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Key Drivers for Shifting to Cloud ERP Agility and Flexibility: Businesses are seeking ERP solutions that can quickly adapt to changing market conditions. Security and Compliance: As companies migrate to the cloud, they can rely on their cloud ERP provider to prioritize data security and regulatory compliance.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. This dance between companies and investors, playing out in expected and actual earnings, is a feature of every earnings season, especially so in the United States, and it has always fascinated me.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Strategic treasury management helps businesses stay financially stable, even when markets are unpredictable. This article explains what treasury management is, why market volatility matters, and how companies can adapt to changing conditions. Protects the business from risks like currency fluctuations and interest rate hikes.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

In many ways, the rise of crypto and digital currencies like Bitcoin aims to address some of these issues, empowering payers and payees with a way of bypassing the “middleman” of the inter-banking system for faster transaction speeds. .” Choice, he said, is key to guiding corporates toward a digital currency ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged John McAfee for allegedly touting investments in initial coin offerings (ICOs) to Twitter followers without saying that he received payment for doing so, according to a press release. The computer coder and businessperson’s bodyguard, Jimmy Watson Jr.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In terms of collaboration, as noted in this space, the Federal Reserve is working in collaboration with seven other central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to bring together a framework that would smooth the path to digital currency issuance. The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring a digital currency.

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Global Finance

JULY 24, 2024

The markets saw the choice as positive, given that Ebrard has a more moderate profile compared to Claudia Sheinbaum’s more left-wing stance. Since the new minister’s nomination, the Mexican peso has gained significant ground against most G7 currencies; Mexican stocks have also trended upward.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Her speech, entitled “Payment and the Pandemic,” included a section on digital currencies. Mester noted the central bank had been looking into digital currencies even before the pandemic, “building and testing a range of distributed ledger platforms to understand their potential benefits and trade-offs.”

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The bank has also turned to electronic secondary bond market operator Tradeweb to take advantage of the market’s expertise in fixed-income trading and liquidity. Société Générale Securities Services acted as the on-chain custodian, while Goldman Sachs was the account keeper.

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Global Finance

MARCH 6, 2025

Rail Baltica secured an additional 1.4 Vital Statistics Location: Northeastern Europe Neighbors: Estonia, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania Capital city: Riga Population (2024): 1.9 million Official languages: Latvian (56.3%), Russian (33.8%), other 0.6% GDP per capita (2024): $22,200 GDP growth (2024): 1.2% Inflation (2024): 1.4%

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Offshore investments become a hedge against currency volatility. High inflation, currency volatility, and foreign exchange scarcity have eroded wealth and significantly contributed to a decline in net worth for many people. Wealth preservation and growth in Africa are highly challenging.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Indonesia is a substantial and growing market for us. Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company, in their 2024 e-Conomy Southeast Asia report, named Indonesia the fastest-growing large internet market. Second, access the ASEAN and South Asian markets. GDP per capita (2024): $5,000 GDP growth (2024): 5% Inflation (2024): 2.5%

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

18) that the government says would make convertible digital currencies like bitcoin less attractive to criminals engaging in crimes such as ransomware attacks. CVC" stands for "convertible virtual currency" – a category of digital products that can serve as currency. Bitcoin is a popular example.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

The blockchain for the Marshallese sovereign (SOV) digital currency will be developed with Algorand technology, according to an announcement. Algorand was selected after extensive market research among the leading protocol options,” SFB Technologies Co-Founder and CTO Jim Wagner said in the announcement.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As the payments landscape in the Philippines undergoes significant evolution, the country is set to see a more seamless, secure, and interconnected setting in 2025, according to Visa. This upward trajectory highlights a shift in consumer behavior with Filipinos exploring global markets with increasing ease and enthusiasm.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Weeks before cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy , dozens of young Nigerians in skintight dresses and brightly colored suits shimmied under limbo bars, posed for photos in front of the company’s logo and sipped expensive liquor at a swanky beachfront venue.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

7) that it is supporting SWIFT ’s latest service to speed effortless global cross-border payments for small- and medium-sized business (SMBs) and consumer markets. “We Oracle Banking Payments announced Wednesday (Oct. The subsidiary of Oracle Corp. is an IT solution provider to the financial services industry. The subsidiary of Oracle Corp.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Its vendor management module integrates directly into educational institutions' enterprise resource planning (ERP) and AP systems to streamline supplier payment workflows, but also has a strong focus on supplier needs, including payment type and currency. NexusPayments Tackles Real Estate Supplier Adoption.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 10, 2025

But let’s set aside markets and investing strategies entirely. Can you elaborate on how people misunderstand the very purpose of currency? The strangest thing I came to realize was that the market crashes and bear markets that should have mattered the least to me were most terrifying. One fell off a boat and sank.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As much as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have attracted scrutiny from the Department of Justice and still lack mainstream acceptance, Voyager’s portfolio of so-called “stablecoins” (which are linked to an underlying currency such as the U.S. With the treasury market for S&P 500 companies valued at $2.3 The Pandemic Pop.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

The Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) has reported an increase in the volume of investment scam reports by investors and consumers in Australia amid the pandemic, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

at online trading platform eToro , said in the report there are "storm clouds" on the horizon for the form of currency. Warnings of money-printing by global central banks, some of which began to show their own interest in digital currency, gave way to fears of inflation. billion unregistered securities offering.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Chatterjee says these services are particularly valuable in Asian markets such as India, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia, as cross-border virtual CFO services provide structured solutions to drive growth, optimise financial operations, and ensure compliance with global standards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Conversely, American Express and Mastercard ’s commercial card market dropped. One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“Most things take 10 to 15 years to drive through the ecosystem,” McCarthy told Webster — especially when a range of stakeholders are involved, spanning two-sided markets, consumers, merchants and governments. Blockchain remains a key driver of cryptos’ future, both as unit of currency and store of value. Back in May, i2c Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Central bank leaders from six countries and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have planned an April meeting to discuss digital currencies and the parameters involved for launching their own, the Nikkei Asian Review reported on Thursday (Feb. The global mobile payment market is currently estimated at $816.50

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

News came this week that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against Ripple over its XRP cryptocurrency. billion unregistered securities offering, and named CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Co-Founder Chris Larsen in the suit. XRP is a currency, as the DOJ and FinCEN determined in 2015.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Ripple for trading the cryptocurrency without registering it as a security. Bittrex will remove the currency on Jan. Ripple maintains “XRP is a currency, as the DOJ and FinCEN determined in 2015.”. In other news, bitcoin hit a new high on Wednesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Digital banks, alt credit providers and digital wallet providers may not be thinking about cards as of late 2019, but they are thinking about how to scale their solutions beyond their domestic markets — how to make them interoperable on a global stage. So today (Sept. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

The partnership aims to create a secondary credit market that is transparent and efficient and makes it easy to manage credit and digitally store documents, loan history and due diligence activities, preventing “information asymmetry risks,” the release stated. “The

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Already 70-80% of its 670 million population are active internet users, and there is tremendous opportunity to capture – Asia Pacific’s ecommerce market value is projected to grow to over US$28.9 trillion by 2026, according to the International Trade Administration. Real-world applications of this approach are already in motion.

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