Category: digital currencies

This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Kryptonio, a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto without private keys or passwords.) @iliashatzis wrote Real value in a virtual…

Are we headed for another Eurozone bond melt down ? Don’t say it too loudly but history looks like it is repeating itself. Yields on Italian bonds are climbing and the differential between Italian and German sovereign debt are widening. Heard it all before? Of course you have because the root causes have never been…

Monoova, a B2B payments solutions provider, and TrueLayer, a global open banking organisation, are partnering to harness financial and identity insights using Australia’s Consumer Data Right (CDR) for smarter, faster, data-enabled payments in the Australian market. The benefits of the combination of CDR data with payments start when onboarding customers and continue through the procure-to-pay…

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies present several challenges for investors and banks, including their use by criminals, according to Anne Boden, chief executive of Starling Bank Ltd. Anne Boden. Photo by Bloomberg Mercury “People are being scammed and the proceeds normally go into crypto wallets,” Boden said in a virtual interview with Bloomberg UK. The assets are…

Accounting for five per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, data centres and their polluting operations are now to come under increasing scrutiny from MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX) and Red Dot Analytics (RDA). MVGX is a digital green exchange licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), whilst RDA is an industrial artificial…

Checkout.com is acquiring online identity verification provider ubble. The move will enable Checkout.com to help its clients ensure compliance and stay ahead of changing regulations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Global payments solutions provider Checkout.com is boosting its digital identity expertise with the acquisition of online identity verification service provider ubble. ubble was…

Quantum computing has implications for high-value challenges in finance, according to an industry expert. Quantum computing can be used to measure credit decay as it relates to risk, to increase training speed for machine learning algorithms, including accelerating Monte Carlo calculations, and to optimize portfolios, explains Sam Mugel, who holds a Ph.D. in quantum computing,…

Fiserv is integrating buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Affirm into its Carat merchant platform as part of the core provider’s latest business banking push. Affirm is set to be the first BNPL to fully integrate into Fiserv’s Carat merchant platform, allowing Fiserv merchant clients to add Affirm payment options into their digital checkout. Fiserv…

BMO Financial Group (BMO) (NYSE, TSX: BMO) has expanded its electronic trading footprint in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), launching its electronic trading services for institutions and broker-dealers outside of North America for the first time. As part of its ongoing commitment to being digital first, BMO is focused on driving speed, innovation, and…