Square, Twitter, and Substack are big first movers in Bitcoin payment solutions
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Businesses expect instant payments: Fed research
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Blockchain networks will transform cross-border payments, crush banking’s ‘hopscotch’
In the digital age, disintermediating the “hopscotch” between banks as payments make their way across the globe can have positive ripple effects.
Justin Rice, head...
The future of fintech: PayPal vs. Square
PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Square (NYSE: SQ) are often compared as investments because they're both fintech companies with payment processing platforms. As the world shifts more and more toward using...
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The NFT Gold Rush Continues
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Why is Facebook getting into cryptocurrency?
Facebook is on the cusp of launching an ambitious new cryptocurrency-based payment system that it says will boost financial inclusion and slash transaction fees....
How fintech can bridge the credit gap for first-time borrowers
Fintech firms are offering tailored credit services quickly with high client interaction, using novel ways to analyse data and assess borrowers needs and repayment...
Research: Overall time spent on investment and trading apps increased Y-o-Y more than 50%...
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According to a latest comprehensive study by Fact.MR, over the next decade, transaction value of personal finance apps is presumed to grow 3X...
Embedded finance expected to net €720bn for European brands by 2026, but barriers exist
OpenPayd, a leading global payments and banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, today revealed insights from the largest ever independent study of brand attitudes towards embedded finance....
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The risks of overbuilding Crypto infrastructure
Unlike previous eras of the internet, Web3 infrastructure has far outpaced applications development. Jesus Rodriguez explains why that could be a problem.
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The concept behind tokenization is simple.
Tokenization is a tech-enabled way to safeguard sensitive information by replacing it with non-sensitive, scrambled strings of information.
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APIs: The silent fintech security concern
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A quarterly report published by integrated app and security platform Wallarm gives granular attention to a little-discussed but critical security concern for fintechs –...
