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Global: Innovative solution for seniors wins JCT orthodox women’s hackathon
The 45-hour hackathon brought 140 religious women together to develop potentially lifesaving technologies, which included a flying defibrillator and technology to detect babies ...
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Global: Shopify Enters B2B eCommerce Market to Compete with Amazon
Shopify will be focusing on business-to-business (B2B) commerce, introducing tools to compete with Amazon, a Financial Times (FT) report said Wednesday (June 22). ...
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Global: Russia To Replace the Swift System With Its Own Blockchain Platform
Russia’s government organization has developed its own international payment blockchain platform to replace the Swift system. The Rostec Group is a cult of ...
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Global: Starling Bank reaches three million current account milestone
Starling Bank has passed the three million current account milestone, which includes more than 460,000 small business accounts. The figures come five years ...
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Global: FCA calls for input on the use of synthetic data to support financial services innovation
The Financial Conduct Authority has launched a study into the use of algorithmically generated synthetic data and its potential for safely opening data ...
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Global: Amazon Announces New CEO for its Worldwide Stores
Amazon, a giant technology company announced Doug Herrington as the new CEO of its worldwide retail stores. Herrington will be replacing Dave Clark ...
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Global: eBay acquires KnownOrigin, expanding its foray into NFTs and blockchain
The company enables artists and collectors to create, purchase and resell NFTs via blockchain-enabled transactions. eBay, an e-commerce giant, has announced the acquisition ...
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Global: Qatar Central Bank in ‘foundation stage‘ of launching digital currency
The bank is exploring technological solutions and platforms for its own digital currency. The 2.8-million nation of Qatar is going to join a ...
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Global: Singapore regulator vows to be ‘relentless hard’ on crypto
Singapore will be “relentlessly brutal and violent” on bad behavior in the crypto industry, according to its fintech policy chief, marking a major ...
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Global: The U.K makes a turnaround on KYC rule
The new rule only requires crypto insitution facilitating the transaction to collect personal data on transactions to unhosted or private wallets. The U.K. ...