The old tobacco factory in Mullingar smoked Ireland and part of Europe for half a century. Owned by the Imperial Tobacco Group, a former British monopoly with Victorian airs, those ships were a hotbed of machines that made cigarettes and packaged them. Today the facilities are the headquarters of a…
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The majority of Airbnb offers in almost every city worldwide are entire houses or apartments, not rooms with a “host” According to a recent interview published in El País with the vice president of Public Policies of Airbnb, Chris Lehane, the platform is a sustainable tourist option because it allows…
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The Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions, better known as the Fintech Law, could inhibit the appetite in the ecosystem in response to the requirements it demands. Salvador Moreno Segura, CEO of AXA Investment Managers, said that this law, which was announced in March of last year, seemed to punish…
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The Dutch startup Zero wants to roll up the European market from Berlin and competes against well-financed US players like Lime and Bird, which has already started a scooter pilot project in Bamberg. Smaller providers such as Voi from Sweden, the two Berlin startups Tier Mobility and Flash and Hive,…
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In a session of the AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) on Reddit, the director and co-founder of Circle, Jeremy Allaire, declared that he expects Crypto to have a greater impact on humanity than the invention of the Internet. Circle is a famous Fintech startup supported by Goldman Sachs that became popular…
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) concluded the first purchase transaction of airline tickets through a new payment system: “IATA Pay”. The transaction was carried out in partnership with ipagoo, a fintech company based in the United Kingdom. IATA noted that this new payment method is an industry-backed initiative to…
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The Federal Communications Commission of the United States (FCC) has granted Google permission to use the Project Soli technology, which consists in controlling a mobile phone or any touch screen without having to touch it, thanks to the movement of gestures through the use of a radar. The radar system…
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Within the options available to us to operate cryptocurrency, in addition to the CFD platforms, we have different types of exchange and even exclusive trading platforms for tokens. What is an exchange? Fundamentally an exchange is an online platform that allows the exchange of fiat money (fiduciary, explained below) by…
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In eToro the so-called “social trading stars” act as a kind of investment guide for the rest of users. In this way, eToro allows less experienced users to allocate part of their funds to the most successful investors (Popular Investors) to “copy” the operations they perform in real time. The…
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Bakkt, a Bitcoin futures exchange operated by ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is close to receiving the green light from the US government. Bakkt has been working with the Commission for Trade in Goods and Futures (CFTC) to approve its business plan, which revolves…
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