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US charges California man over Shopify data breach
A grand jury has indicted a California resident accused of stealing Shopify customer data on over a hundred merchants, TechCrunch has learned. The ...
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US retail trade groups ask to join $5.54bn Visa and Mastercard lawsuit
America’s two largest retail trade groups want to join a federal lawsuit filed more than 15 years ago against Mastercard and Visa. The ...
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OnePlus Pay plans to launch in India
The NFC-based OnePlus Pay mobile payments service has announced plans to launch in India. OnePlus followed the footsteps of Samsung and Google, and ...
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China Creates its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy
A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination ...
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JPMorgan sets $130K Bitcoin target as volatility drops while new regulations are brewing
Institutions have been entering the cryptocurrency space, as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are two of the latest large banks to join in ...
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SoftBank Mints New Unicorn in Indian Social Commerce App Meesho
Bangalore-based social commerce startup Meesho Inc. has raised $300 million in new funding led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund 2, valuing the ...
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Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M round for Brazilian fintech Cora
Cora, a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley ...
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Deutsche Bank sanctioned by South African Reserve Bank over compliance weaknesses
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has imposed administrative sanctions on Deutsche Bank in Johannesburg. The bank found weaknesses in the bank’s money ...
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ConductorOne raises $5M in seed round led by Accel to automate access requests
Over the course of their careers, Alex Bovee and Paul Querna realized that while the use of SaaS apps and cloud infrastructure was ...
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Japan’s central bank kicks off experiments on issuing digital currency
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) began experiments to study the feasibility of issuing its own digital currency, joining efforts by other central banks ...