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Cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin has selected merchant service provider Worldpay to aid in its expansion efforts, which includes bringing crypto-to-crypto payments to a global audience. OKCoin will leverage Worldpay’s foreign exchange services, allowing customers to purchase cryptocurrency with credit and debit cards. Jason Lau, OKCoin’s COO, said his firm selected Worldpay for
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Morningstar, a financial information services subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Group, will continue its XRP shareholder benefits program.According to an official announcement Friday, Morningstar has approved year-end shareholder benefits in the form of XRP.The new dividend payout option comes as part of the company’s year-end reward program to thank
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Ripple plans to invest in MoneyTap, the blockchain payments app birthed through a joint venture between the San Francisco-based firm and SBI Holdings. Source
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The move is part of the bitcoin mining machine producer's plan to build a digital asset financial service platform. Source
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The Japanese financial group is also mulling other business lines around tokenized securities. Source
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United States-based TradeStation, a subsidiary of Japanese firm Monex Group, is planning to launch a crypto lending service.The plan was announced in Monex’s earning report published on July 29. Called “Crypto Earn” the new lending service is “C2B2B” that lends institutions borrowed assets from clients. Last November, TradeStation launched a cryptocurrency
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Auditing firm CertiK and Hyundai subsidiary Hdac are teaming up to bring Internet of Things (IoT) devices onto a blockchain. Hdac’s blockchain platform attempts to combine secure authentication, seamless mapping and machine-to-machine transactions in a blockchain network with IoT devices. CertiK’s team of blockchain engineers worked closely with Hdac to audit
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China’s second-largest online retailer, JD.com, is teaming with blockchain privacy platform ARPA to protect the financial data of major clients. Specifically, the data platform for the firm’s subsidiary JD Digits (formerly JD Finance) will integrate with ARPA’s blockchain-based network, which uses technology known as secure multi-party computation (sMPC). JD Digits was
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Ant Financial — the Chinese fintech company formerly known as Alipay— has launched a new consortium blockchain platform called OpenChain.According to an announcement on April 16, the platform would allow developers and small and micro enterprises to utilize innovative blockchain tools. They can now explore the technology further and
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Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary Sonnen Group announced a partnership with the Energy Web Foundation (EWF) to use EWF’s blockchain to create a virtual power plant (VPP) in Germany on March 12.The virtual power plant will comprise a distributed network of residential energy storage systems intended to absorb excess wind
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