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Australian 'buy now pay later' (BNPL) firm Zip is looking to enter the crypto market by offering trading services to users within the next 12 months. Zip co-founder Peter Gray told Reuters on July 22 that expanding support for crypto trading services and providing a digital wallet was one of
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Swiss-based bank and financial services provider UBS Group AG looks to be the next to enter the fold. Reports released to start the week state that the banking behemoth is considering several different alternatives to offer digital currency investments. UBS Joins The Club The news comes not long after major US-based firms,
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One of the core aims of UBS Chief Executive Officer Ralph Hamersб who replaced Sergio Ermotti, is to cut operational costs while digitizing bank’s operations and product offerings. Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG) is reportedly exploring multiple ways to bring
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Union Bank’s financial supply chain platform to be integrated with XLOG’s logistics platform. Union Bank of the Philippines and fintech firm XLOG have teamed up to offer the Philippines’ first blockchain-powered supply chain financing solution embedded in a logistics platform. “We are firm believers in how blockchain technology can bridge gaps in
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Prior to the Qtum FastLane hard fork activation, the developers had been testing it for the past four months.Qtum Network, a decentralized blockchain platform that runs smart contracts on multiple virtual machines with proof of stake consensus, announced that it has completed a hard fork to implement Qtum FastLane. Notably,
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Though the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry is at an early stage of development, it is a fast growing field that offers tremendous career opportunities for women, women leaders in blockchain say. “We have such an opportunity in a place like blockchain, where it’s new for everyone. It’s harder in industries where
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Brave has made significant progress in its active monthly users over the past few years with even higher numbers expected to be recorded with their latest acquisition. In a bid to provide a private alternative to Google Search and Google Chrome, Brave Software Inc has acquired the Tailcat search engine of Hubert
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Deutsche Bank has joined the growing ranks of large financial institutions exploring cryptocurrency custody, with aspirations to offer high-touch services to hedge funds that invest in the asset class.The Deutsche Bank Digital Asset Custody prototype aims to develop “a fully integrated custody platform for institutional clients and their digital assets
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Centralized payment companies such as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal will need to adapt if they are to survive the potential demand for blockchain-based stablecoin payments, according to research firm Gartner.In a Thursday blog post, Gartner notes that, while new bitcoin offerings from such firms are helping to prepare the transition
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Michael Saylor, the MicroStrategy CEO-turned-king of bitcoin treasuries, called upon fellow business executives Wednesday to avoid the path of financial “serfdom” at his virtual WORLD.NOW bitcoin-themed conference.In his solo address, Saylor detailed the cryptocurrency playbook that propelled his three-decade-old data firm to newfound relevance in less than a year.Largely eschewing
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