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R3’s Marco Polo Trade Blockchain Takes Another Step Toward Production
14.8.2019
The trade finance blockchain platform has passed another milestone in its development with a successful pilot of real-time payment triggers
India’s Reliance Jio Announces 10 Year Partnership with Microsoft Azure
14.8.2019
It is a well-known fact that cloud computing services now power some of the world’s biggest companies, and over the years, the importance of cloud service companies is only going to rise exponentially. In that regard, Microsoft has come up by leaps and bounds with its cloud service known...
Banking Giants JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs Caution against Chinese Stocks as Trade War Continues
13.8.2019
The continued trade war between the world’s two biggest economies, the United States and China, has proven to be the biggest economic issue in this decade. On top of that, there is still no sign that the trade war is going to be resolved any time soon, and that has made life extremely different...
Tumblr to be Sold to WordPress Owner Automattic Inc by Verizon
13.8.2019
As the internet has grown more and more influential, plenty of internet properties have been developed by a range of companies. It is important to note that beyond the big names like Facebook or Twitter, plenty of highly influential blogging websites have also been developed and one of the most...
New Zealand’s ASB Bank Takes Stake in Trade Finance Blockchain Startup
13.8.2019
ABS has invested a "significant" amount in TradeWindow, a startup working to put trade finance on a blockchain
Big Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Crimes
13.8.2019
Unlike the unfounded narrative that cryptocurrency enables crime, big banks are more than happy to serve unsavory clients if it is lucrative enough for them. The latest example of this is a report that Jeffrey Epstein was apparently using his bank accounts to fund sex trafficking and possibly other...
IoT Devices Had Been Used by Russian Hackers to Breach Networks, Claims Microsoft
13.8.2019
The internet may have been the most revolutionary thing to have been discovered over the course of the last 50 years due to the profound changes it has brought to the world. That being said, it has also given rise to hackers, who spend days and nights in an effort to come up with ingenious...
China Gets Ready to Launch Supply Chain Facing Information Sharing Platform
12.8.2019
Over the years, China has been well known for being particularly opaque with regards to data and information about its economy as well as companies. However, things are changing rapidly in the country as the Chinese leadership tries to position the country as the next great superpower. In a...
Travel Agency Thomas Cook in Advanced Talks Over £150 Million Capital Injection
12.8.2019
Thomas Cook used to be one of the biggest travel companies in the world, but over the past few years, the company has fallen on hard times. Over the past few quarters, the travel company has struggled with capital issues, and that had completely pummelled the stock as well. However, it seems that...
Traditional Financial Organizations Face Heat from Apple Following Credit Card Launch
12.8.2019
Over the year, some of the biggest tech companies in the world have made forays into businesses that are starkly different from their core business and managed to make it a complete success. For instance, Apple entered into the music industry by way of the iPod and iTunes and eventually changed...
PR: Remco – Powerful Distributed Token Generating Platform
12.8.2019
remittancetoken.io – Token-Generating Platform for Money Transfer currently trading on Digifinex has announced it's sponsoring blockchain Finance Lagos conference event in Africa's largest market, Nigeria. Offering free flight ticket and accommodation to the qualified speakers.
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Challenges the Global Financial System
11.8.2019
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
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Do you still think crypto is a scam? That smart contracts...
Researchers can Receive Great ‘Bounty’ from Apple for Finding Security Flaws in iPhones
11.8.2019
Cybersecurity researchers have a reason to rejoice. According to the latest reports, Apple Inc has decided to offer up to one million dollars as rewards to cybersecurity researchers for finding out faults in iPhones. Interestingly, it is the highest reward any company has ever offered to defend...
Amazon’s Land Based Scout Delivery Drones Launched in California
9.8.2019
When it comes to innovation, there are very few companies which can match e-commerce giant Amazon. Its innovative streak is also one of the reasons why the company has managed to grow into one of the world’s most valuable companies in just over two decades. As everyone knows, delivery is the most...
Apple Offers $1 Million to Cyber Security Researchers to Find Security Flaws in iPhone
9.8.2019
Over the past few years, fears about cybersecurity have increased manifold among most people in the world, and there are legitimate reasons behind such a development. The revelations from whistleblowers have proven beyond doubt that there are organizations who are engaged in trying to gather...
Operation Food Search Gets $30,000 Donation from Bank of America
9.8.2019
As everyone knows, homelessness and hunger are problems that affect not only the poorer nations of the world but also in highly developed countries like the United States. Over the past decades, plenty of nonprofit organizations have come into existence which is involved in fighting against hunger...
Big Banks, Big Troubles: HSBC, Deutsche, Societe, and Citi Lay Off Thousands Worldwide
9.8.2019
Banking giants are in trouble and it’s starting to show. Key players in the industry have already announced massive job cuts and executives with hefty salaries have been dismissed. HSBC, the largest bank in Europe, has revealed it plans to lay off over 4,000 employees and Citigroup...
FedEx Terminates Its Ground Delivery Business with Online Retail Giant Amazon
8.8.2019
When Amazon started more than two decades ago as an online bookseller, nobody quite thought that the company was going to become an e-commerce behemoth. Over the years, it has gone into a slew of new businesses and managed to make it a success. In the meantime, it has also been figuring out ways...
Owning Fiat Just Got More Expensive – NIRP Strikes Again
8.8.2019
With the recent Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) announcement that even more customers will be charged to hold money in their banks, people are scrambling to find ways to preserve their wealth, while USB and others scramble to dam the losses resulting from national negative interest rate policy...
Commerzbank Decides to Lift Loan Provisions due to ‘worsening’ Economic Conditions
8.8.2019
The German economy, which is the largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world, has been going through growing pains over the past few quarters. In such a situation, the country biggest banks have also had to go through their share of pain, and in this regard, banking giant Commerzbank...