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France's Financial Markets Authority (AMF) announced Thursday that it had approved an initial coin offering (ICO) for the first time.The successful recipient of the AMF "ICO visa" – a cryptocurrency fundraising platform called French-ICO – met the minimum guarantees required by law, including a white paper investors could understand, according
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Visa, one of the largest global payment solution providers, has come up with its own data management tool which is entirely based on blockchain. The new blockchain system, called LucidiTEE, is poised to replace the legacy fintech data management software.Visa’s Research and Development wing has published a paper based on
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Visa has been quietly developing a blockchain system that could upend how banks transfer data to consumer financial apps like Mint and Credit Karma. Source
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Coinbase has added support for five new crypto options to its Visa debit card, and also expanded availability to 10 more European nations. The U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange announced Thursday that holders of the card can now spend XRP, basic attention
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According to new data from marketing analysis firm SEMRush, Bitcoin (BTC) is the third-most preferred online payment method in Italy.Bitcoin comes in third placeOn Oct. 31, the Italian news outlet La Stampa reported that the Boston-based marketing analysis company, it was stated that in the list of the most
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Ethereum-based decentralized stablecoin DAI is now spendable where VISA cards are accepted and leading stablecoin Tether (USDT) is seeing increasing use by e-commerce organizations.DAI now usable in E.U. storesAccording to a press release shared with CryptoX Oct. 29, collaborative financial platform 2Gether added DAI support to its platform. A
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Head of Facebook's Calibra claimed that the recent withdrawal of the seven firms from the Libra Association has no impact on the project.Dropouts will still be able to work with LibraIn an interview with Yahoo Finance on Oct. 15, Calibra’s David Marcus argued that Facebook’s cryptocurrency project is “absolutely
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After PayPal, several Other members of the Libra Association including MasterCard, Visa, eBay, Stripe, and Mercado Pago, have also abandoned Facebook’s plans for creating the distributed, global cryptocurrency Libra.This serious blow from these payment processor giants came as the Libra crypto project attracted fierce criticism from global regulators and lawmakers,
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Visa, EBay, Stripe and Mastercard have all announced that they are dropping out of Facebook’s Libra Association and its associated stablecoin project.Four companies abandon shipOn Oct. 11, Bloomberg reported that Ebay, Stripe and Mastercard had decided to drop out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project. Within minutes, Visa said it
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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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