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Visa’s deal to buy fintech startup Plaid faces antitrust scrutiny
Payment processor Visa Inc’s $5.3 billion deal to buy fintech startup Plaid Inc is facing antitrust scrutiny at the U.S. Justice Department, which ...
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PayPal Invests in Racial Equality
Amid the nationwide protests against systemic racism and police brutality that took place in America in June 2020, PayPal pledged $530 million to ...
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Barclays launches accelerator for black-founded tech firms
Barclays is launching a 12-week virtual accelerator programme designed to help early-stage tech businesses founded by black entrepreneurs. The bank is working with ...
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Alibaba’s Co-Founder Lucy Peng to Get $5 Billion Richer on Ant IPO
Peng, who helped set up Alibaba’s human-resources department, was Ant Group Co.’s chief executive officer and is now executive chairwoman of Lazada Group ...
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Cambodia Central Bank Launches Bakong Blockchain Payments System
Cambodia’s blockchain-based payments platform, the digital currency-like system Cambodian central bankers call Bakong went live on Wednesday, according to the country’s central bank. ...
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Bharti Airtel to exit Ghana telecom market
Airtel Ghana is set to exit the Ghanaian telecom market after its mother company, Bharti Airtel Limited in India approved the move at ...
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Telos launches new gig economy platform on the blockchain
Blockchain developers can’t be accused of failing to keep up with the times. The unprecedented shake-up in the world’s labor markets during the ...
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Major French Bank Taps ConsenSys to Develop Digital Currency
Forge, a subsidiary of European investment bank Societe Generale, has chosen Ethereum software incubator ConsenSys to provide it with “technology and expertise” related ...
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Swiss central bank & BIS to trial digital currency by year-end
A top official of the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) disclosed that the institution would be collaborating with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) ...
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Singapore’s largest bank reportedly launching crypto trading and custody
DBS, Singapore’s largest retail and commercial bank, seems to be entering the cryptocurrency space with three new offerings. According to information seen by ...