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Pngme raises $15M Serie A funding to bolster capacity for greater financial inclusion
Pngme has raised $15 million in a Serie A round led by Octopus Ventures (a London-based multi-stage European venture capital investor), alongside other players like Lateral Capital, Unshackled ...
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Binance Makes Regulatory Compliance Top Priority as the Crypto Exchange Pivots Into Financial Services Company
Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance has made regulatory compliance its top priority. The exchange is on a hiring spree to “significantly” add to its ...
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Thailand’s central bank outlines safeguards for a future retail CBDC
The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has published the results of a new study into how to manage the implications of issuing a retail central bank ...
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Global: Jamaica’s Central Bank Says Court Order Required to Track CBDC Transactions
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), the country’s central bank, has said customer protections prevent the ability to trace digital dollar transactions despite the ...
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AusPayNet releases 2020 payment card fraud data
New data released by the payments industry self-regulatory body, Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet), has shown a slight increase in online card fraud in 2020. AusPayNet’s ...
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OCR Labs gets TDIF accreditation from the Australian Government
OCR Labs has been recognized as the first Australian private company, accredited under the Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF) of the Australian government ...
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US Lawmakers Urge SEC and CFTC to Create Joint Working Group on Crypto Regulation
Two U.S. lawmakers have urged the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading ...
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Mastercard to end magnetic stripe on payment cards
The magnetic stripe on all Mastercard payments cards will be no more by 2033. Mastercard has announced it will be phasing out the ...
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EMVCo publishes EMV 3-D Secure UI/UX guidelines
The global technical body EMVCo has published EMV 3-D Secure UI/UX Design Guidelines to help card issuers, banks, merchants and solution providers optimise the ...
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Leading German asset manager takes Wirecard administrator to court
A former top Wirecard shareholder is seeking damages over the collapse of the payments group in a landmark lawsuit that threatens the compensation bondholders and ...
