626 Results from /crypto
Paul Okhrem Managing partner at Elogic Commerce
Fiat money is a means of the mutual financial settlement between the market players. Be it for physical products or services, consumers look for flexibility in payment methods. Digital currencies are no exception, especially in the e-commerce world where flexibility is a key to creating better user experiences and higher conversions. From the very...
26 April 2022 /crypto /markets Business
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
A recent round of fundraising for Voyager Innovations, the company behind Paymaya, the Philippines' most popular digital payments app, has resulted in the company being declared a unicorn and valued at more than $1 billion. It was stated Tuesday that Voyager Innovation's value had risen to $1.4 billion after receiving a $210 million injection of fi...
26 April 2022 /crypto
Jimmy Huang STRATEGY & SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING at DUCO
Digital assets bring some unique operational challenges. Even crypto-native firms find themselves needing to bridge the technology gap between fiat and crypto systems. How can financial institutions and crypto-native firms ensure the seamless flow of data across their organisations? Mike Walsh, Director of Institutional Operations at BlockFi and Da...
14 April 2022 /crypto /markets Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Retired Member
DeFi is still the Wild West of cryptocurrencies – it’s confusing and complicated. Even losing funds is seen as a kind of rite of passage for traders who face scams, rug pulls, and the risk of lost or mistyped private keys. Despite this, recent data has revealed that the number of DeFi users on Ethereum hit a new all-time high of over four million...
13 April 2022 /crypto
Emily Harris Head of Compliance at Fiat Republic
The Transfer of Funds Regulation is an EU proposal that aims to extend wire transfer requirements to the crypto industry and implement the 'travel rule' - a Financial Action Task Force requirement to collect and send customer data along with transactions. The last round of discussions took place on 31 March. There was much fanfare - the European P...
12 April 2022 /regulation /crypto
Chris Harmse VP at BVNK
Cryptocurrency-based financial service providers are rebuilding banking from the bottom up. Unsurprisingly, they’ve made a few improvements. It’s safe to say the traditional banking sector doesn’t get a lot of love from its customers. Consumers and business customers alike often view dealings with banks as a necessary evil. There are good reasons f...
07 April 2022 /wealth /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
In this new financial landscape, where fintech is reshaping the sector, blockchain development companies have a leg up. The adoption of the new economic model by users will have a major impact on the rate and scope of this transition. It's clear that the public is fed up with black boxes and wants control over how their data and money are transfer...
07 April 2022 /crypto
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
The war of Russia versus its neighbour Ukraine has triggered many countries from the West to impose severe sanctions, mainly aimed at hurting the oligarchs around president Putin. They are trying various ways to evade these sanctions as much as possible. Western countries led by the US now also have put crypto on the sanction list, as there are
06 April 2022 /crypto Blockchain Observations
David Ritter Director, Financial Services Strategy at CI&T
In just over a decade, cryptocurrencies have enjoyed remarkable growth. We’ve all heard the story of the crypto miner trading 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas back in May 2010. Today, those same bitcoins would be worth around $391.7 million—that’s some expensive mozzarella. But it’s these unpredictable peaks and troughs in value that make cryptocurr...
06 April 2022 /payments /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Suruchi Gupta Founder and CEO at GIANT Protocol
For as long as cryptocurrency has existed, innovators have attempted to launch decentralized replicas of fiat money and the broader centralized financial system. In the Bitcoin white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto described Bitcoin as a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system,” but extreme volatility means that store of value is now its primary utility. Sta...
29 March 2022 /startups /crypto Blockchain Observations
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