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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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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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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

As stock and bond markets went through these gyrations, it should come as no surprise that the same forces were playing out in other markets as well. Currencies : A currency serves three functions. There are a range of items that fall into this grouping from fine art to sports memorabilia to precious metals.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Global Payments Survey Shows Fraud Concern and Security Investment Plans. Results show the top challenges and areas of planned investment among companies of all sizes, with fraud and security as consistent themes. The second highest challenge for all firms overall was security fraud management at 49%. Media Contacts.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A group of senators have introduced a bill that would classify Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra as a security under the law, according to a report by CNBC. The bill is called the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019” and was proposed by two members of the House Financial Services Committee, Reps.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A group of senators have introduced a bill that would classify Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra as a security under the law, according to a report by CNBC. The bill is called the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019” and was proposed by two members of the House Financial Services Committee, Reps.

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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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JULY 23, 2019

The fake communications reportedly feature Facebook’s logo, branding, photos of Mark Zuckerberg or Libra’s official marketing imagery. Facebook’s inability to detect the circulation of fraudsters could further discredit Libra and generate even more distrust as regulators investigate the proposed global currency.

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JULY 25, 2018

Banco Santander was able to offset emerging market currency volatility and a slowdown in U.K. With Brazil, the largest market for Santander has been relying on that for growth. during its second quarter, reporting net income that surpassed Wall Street views. We want to offer our clients what they expect from us.”.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

The People’s Bank of China said that China’s cryptocurrency, the digital yuan, will not need a currency basket to keep its value, according to a Monday (Dec. The [digital yuan] currency is not used for speculation. It isn’t known if there is another way to put a value on the currency without using the traditional renminbi.

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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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JANUARY 9, 2020

Lenders including Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Virgin Money had to stop foreign currency services after exchange provider Travelex was hit by a ransomware gang, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. Travelex, owned by the Abu Dhabi-based financial services group Finablr , serves over 70 markets.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Under the new regulation, cryptography will be organized into commercial crypto, as well as core and common, which will be governed by special authority and utilized to keep national secrets secure. . David Marcus , the executive in charge of Facebook’s proposed digital currency, said if Libra fails, the U.S.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Coverage includes the launch of Wirecard and Ctrip ’s multi-currency Visa cards for customers in China. Digital financial technology company Wirecard and online travel agency Ctrip are rolling out multi-currency Visa cards to Ctrip customers in China, Wirecard said in an announcement. In addition, U.K. ”

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AUGUST 29, 2018

The currency decline continues: The Swedish krona fell Wednesday (Aug. The decline comes amid political uncertainty in that Nordic country, the prospect of a widening trade war that could hurt it and increasing attention to the benefits of currency hedging among commerce and payments businesses. Such lows were last seen in 2009.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. Yao was the head of China’s central bank digital currency initiative. .

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In today’s top news, the stock market takes its biggest hit since 2015 due to mounting fears over the coronavirus, and an ex-Microsoft engineer is found guilty of stealing $10 million in digital currency. Coronavirus Decimates US Stock Market $1.7T stock market is taking a hit due to mounting fears over the coronavirus.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Digital money platform Uphold announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire New York Stock Exchange member JNK Securities Corp. Uphold is the creator of an open, transparent digital money platform that allows users to quickly and safely access traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies and other investments in one place.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

HSBC has added six foreign currencies supported by its commercial card products in Europe in support of corporates operating across borders in the region. We now offer a full range of commercial card products to clients across 26 countries in Europe and 43 countries globally, with the same core capabilities in each market.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fraud could cost the market more than $25 billion this year, and approximately 20 percent of attempted travel-related transactions are confirmed to be fraudulent. Dallas-based busing line Greyhound is all too familiar with such problems, prompting it to implement advanced learning technologies to secure ticketing.

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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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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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MARCH 20, 2017

The big price drop comes as rival factions in bitcoin land are waging a rather pitched battle over the digital currency’s future and the potential currency split. Since speed is among the features bitcoin uses to distinguish itself from fiat currency, a traffic jam like this is a major issue. market opening 1.26

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A forfeiture complaint for digital currency funds that were confiscated in the past outlined the purported thefts, target exchanges and marks of the two individuals. But they have grown in popularity in markets that are not stable. After that time, they purportedly stole ether, bitcoin and NEO to the tune of $20 million.

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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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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In today’s top payments news, Stripe and Lightspeed team up to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants, the Federal Reserve weighs the costs and benefits of a digital currency and the Reserve Bank of Australia considers stopping banks from automatically routing “tap and go” payments through Visa and Mastercard.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Designed to provide a seamless and secure link between stakeholders across the trade community using the electronic ledger system, Silsal is considered to be the first blockchain solution developed locally by an Abu Dhabi-based entity.

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JULY 29, 2020

The Philippines central bank is now considering creating its own central bank digital currency (CDBC), it said during a virtual meeting, having formed a committee to address the issue, Bloomberg reported. Benjamin Diokno , governor of the bank, said he doesn’t personally think the digital coins pose a threat to other types of currency.

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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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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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DECEMBER 9, 2023

Financial forecasts serve as a compass, guiding businesses through the uncertainties of markets, consumer behaviors, and economic shifts. Financial forecasting is the process of estimating a business’s future financial outcomes based on historical data, current market trends, and management insight. What is financial forecasting?

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Chief financial officers will need to consider the potential impact of China's debt situation on their companies’ credit ratings since a downgrade in the country’s sovereign credit rating could lead to downgrades for corporates as well, which could further increase borrowing costs and potentially limit access to capital markets.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

China is making privacy allowances for digital currency , which faces a new foe in the U.S. Former Fed Chair: Central Banks Have No Reason To Issue Digital Currencies. 12) that central banks have no reason to issue digital currency. 12) that central banks have no reason to issue digital currency. Former U.S.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

CipherTrace noted in a report that digital currency theft has nearly topped $1 billion over the first three quarters of the year at $927 million, Reuters reported. The organization noted that digital currencies are not an effective store of value, unit of account or payment means.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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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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