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The US Federal Reserve, the country’s central banking entity, recently called up the nation’s biggest banks to present their views regarding the launch of Facebook’s digital currency project Libra. Not surprisingly, most of them turned out to be negative and some even said that it could be a potential threat
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On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that MasterCard Inc. (NYSE:MA) and Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), among other financial partners, could be reconsidering their position in Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ:FB) cryptocurrency project Libra. Backers Not Ready for Criticism from Regulators The Journal report indicated that the financial backers of the cryptocurrency project are not ready
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In a recent CNBC interview, Ripple’s senior vice president of customer success Marcus Treacher has described Facebook’s Libra crypto project as a “walled garden,” meaning a closed system.He also added that in contrast with Facebook Libra, Ripple (XRP)trade is no walled garden; however, the social media giant’s entry into the
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Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Stripe are unsure whether they wish to become paid-up participants in Facebook’s Libra digital currency.As Bloomberg reported on Oct. 2 citing “people familiar with the matter,” the four payment giants have reservations about the plans. Sources: Facebook “oversold” regulator supportThe companies formed part of the cohort
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Newly leaked audio from Q&A sessions between Facebook’s CEO and employees revealed Facebook’s early strategy for Libra launch.One month after releasing Libra’s white paperOn Oct. 1, tech news agency The Verge published audio and text from recent internal meetings at Facebook where CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered employees’ questions about
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Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is in talks with the House Financial Services Committee to testify on Libra, Facebook’s stablecoin.Discussions on market power and LibraAccording to a Bloomberg article from Sept. 26, Facebook is currently trying to get its chief operating officer Sandberg in front of the House
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The chief economist of Dutch multinational banking and financial services giant ING says that Facebook’s plan to launch a digital currency has put pressure on central banks to launch their own.In an article and video interview published on ING’s THINK portal on Sept. 27, Mark Cliffe said that there
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Marcus Treacher, a senior executive at blockchain cross-border remittance giant Ripple is seemingly kicking-off a modern “cola war” with their emerging rival Libra, Facebook’s controversial cryptocurrency. Treacher, the head of Ripple’s strategic accounts globally, criticized the so-called Facebook cryptocurrency for being “a walled garden.” The executive stressed that
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Libra’s proposed 2020 launch date has been thrown into doubt after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg refused to put a definitive timeframe on the project. Contradicting Reports on Libra Launch Speaking to Nikkei, Zuckerberg was asked about the expected launch date of Libra, to which he replied: “Obviously we want to move forward at
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While addressing the committee on Digital Agenda of the Deutscher Bundestag, the chairman of the Committee on Payments and Markets Infrastructures (CPMI) and the European Central Bank (ECB) board member, Benoit Coeure, took the time to give an in-depth explanation on the challenges facing our age-long financial market, how digital
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