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Global: Paragraph Raises $1.7M Pre-Seed Funding
Paragraph, a Santa Clara, CA-based web3-native publishing platform, raised $1.7M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Lemniscap, with participation from Binance ...
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Global: German regulator tells 1&1 to stop MVNO sales by end of 2023
The German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has set a deadline for 1&1 to give up the mobile service business provided by its subsidiary ...
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Global: Japan’s International Payments System will test plastic cards for CBDC
Japan Credit Bureau (JCB), a Japanese analog to international payments systems like Visa or Mastercard, announced the start of its central bank digital currency ...
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Global: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says Decentralized Finance Should Be Protected From Regulatory Overreach
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is voicing his opinion on potential regulations involving crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi). Armstrong says he’s grateful that Michigan ...
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Global: El Salvador becomes third largest crypto ATM hub
After the United States and Canada, Spain is the official home of the third-largest network of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency ATMs, as reported by ...
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Global: Toymaker Mattel agrees to pay $3.5 million to settle SEC charges
California-based Toymaker Mattel Inc (MAT.O) has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges over financial misstatements in 2017, ...
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Global: Vipps and MobilePay get EC approval for merger
The European Commission has approved a merger between Nordic mobile payments players MobilePay and Vipps after a third partner, Pivo, pulled out. Last ...
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Global: Gatehouse Bank handed £1.5m fine by FCA over “poor” AML checks
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has slapped Gatehouse Bank with a £1.5 million fine citing “significant weakness” in its anti-money laundering (AML) ...
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Global: Eurosystem delays T2 wholesale payment system launch
The European Central Bank has delayed the launch of a new real-time gross settlement system and central liquidity management model, T2, by four ...
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Global: JPMorgan launches fundraising platform to lure startups
JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) is launching a platform that aims to connect startup founders with venture capital investors to simplify the fundraising ...