SWIFT announced that it would carry out a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) to integrate its gpi payment standard with Corda, the blockchain platform of R3. The announcement was made at the FinTech Forum in Paris this morning by Gottfired Leibbrandt, CEO of the company. In a subsequent announcement, SWIFT explained that this…
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As announced in November 2018, the German FinTech Deposit Solutions has launched the Savedo platform in Switzerland. After the last round of financing in the summer of 2018, the FinTech and the open-banking specialist Deposit Solutions shines with the proud valuation of about half a billion US dollars. The confidence…
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How fintechs can improve women’s lives IMF head Christine Lagarde discusses the future of fintechs at the industry meeting of financial technology – and emphasizes the importance of regulation. Every year, the world of the future gathers in the 200-year-old Paris stock exchange ‘Palais Brongniart’. With 220 participating company directors,…
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Samsung has bought camera specialist Corephotonics. The takeover had last indicated. Thus, in the future, Samsung could deal with patent lawsuits that had once brought Corephotonics against Apple on the way. What has the acquisition of Corephotonics, a camera specialist from Israel, through Samsung with Apple’s iPhone to do? At…
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In the industry, foreign currency transfers are part of daily business. So far, the high fees and exchange rate surcharges of the banks are hardly questioned. But now there are cost-effective and secure alternatives: Fintechs offer better conditions, transparent exchange rates and are – as BaFin-regulated – as safe as…
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Technology floods everything and there is not a single corner without the internet being present. In fact, the most valuable companies in the world are technological. Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple … are just some of the giants that move the “electronic threads” of the world. As an example, the latter…
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A MIT investigation destroys the myth that only young entrepreneurs are more successful On many occasions, youth and fame often go hand in hand. Even more so when it comes to giant technological companies that have become an icon of the new economy and whose founders created them when they…
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Facebook and Google control more than half (57.6 percent) of the digital advertising market worldwide. The Rate Google is a project of reform of the well-known Law of Intellectual Property that forces to pay to the providers of services and news aggregators to link and to show content of means…
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Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said in an AMA (ask-me-anything) that he believes the “core” of crypto values is undervalued. These statements followed after the Bitcoin price dropped to nearly $ 3,600. Allaire: The markets are oversold At a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ meeting on January 10, Allaire stressed that his…
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The Federal Reserve is reluctant to grant companies a license that would allow them, like banks, direct access to the Fed’s systems. Among the young technology companies that are active in, for example, payments or lending, consumer protection and risk management left much to be desired, is the criticism of…
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