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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

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Yet, what’s amazing to me is that we are still, as an industry, talking about it — bitcoin, now crypto, blockchain — as if its potential to revolutionize our global financial system, and the way money moves between parties around the world, is just around the corner. But as the salvation of our global financial system, not even close.

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PayPal Deepens LATAM Reach With MercadoLibre Integration

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Digital payments firm PayPal is turning to Latin America to strengthen its position in the eCommerce payments and remittance arenas. “By working closely, we can jointly leverage our scale and platform capabilities to help drive inclusion and access to the global digital economy. Today (Dec. In March, MercadoLibre announced a $1.85

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Is It Time To Retire Passwords For Digital Authentication?

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On the other hand, passwords are the most common authentication method used by financial services, eCommerce and healthcare companies, so this is what is familiar to consumers. In addition to AI, banks and fraudsters are using neural networks and other behavior-based learning systems to protect or breach financial systems.

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PayPal Deepens LATAM Reach With Mercado Libre Integration

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Digital payments firm PayPal is turning to Latin America to strengthen its position in the eCommerce payments and remittance arenas. “By working closely, we can jointly leverage our scale and platform capabilities to help drive inclusion and access to the global digital economy. In March, Mercado Libre announced a $1.85

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What We’ve Learned From Libra

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Libra took the position that the financial system is broken and that the cross-border movement of money is too expensive and clunky. Except the global financial system isn’t broken – even though everyone agrees it could be better. Alipay leveraged existing bank and card rails to scale. So now what?

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Testing Monetary, Fiscal Policy As ‘This Time Is Different’

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Whenever a seismic event comes on the scene, and threatens to swamp the financial system and the U.S. That sentiment was echoed, at least in part, Wednesday (March 18) in an op-ed that ran in the Financial Times , penned by Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, former heads of the U.S. This time is different, as the saying goes.