Experts and executives from crypto businesses in the U.S. met in Washington to inform regulators about the main regulatory obstacles facing the industry. More than 45 representatives from major Wall Street firms and crypto companies took part in a meeting to discuss Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and cryptocurrency regulations in Washington D.C. September 25. The […]
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Coinbase has launched a new token listing process that reportedly will help list digital assets faster. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced a new process that will allow it to list more digital assets faster, according to a statement published September 25. Per the announcement, the new process refers only to digital assets that are compliant […]
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Washington-based financial experts allege that North Korea hires people with access to E.U. cryptocurrency wallets to launder and exchange crypto into fiat money. North Korea is “increasingly” using cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions imposed by the U.S., according to two Washington-based experts cited by news site Asia Times on September 24. Lourdes Miranda and Ross Delston […]
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With a strong labor market and expectations for more growth in the economy, consumer confidence in the U.S. reached an 18-year high in September. According to a report in Reuters, citing the Conference Board, the consumer confidence index jumped to a reading of 138.4 in September, up from 134.7 in August, marking the best reading since […]
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National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September, to focus on the importance of registering to vote. That places it on September 25, 2018, and this could be the last year when people use traditional methods to register to vote. Is it possible? In 2016, voters on all sides accused one […]
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Ahead of Wednesday’s Senate hearing with top tech firms on the state of consumer data privacy, several pro-business groups have made their voices on the matter known. The latest is from the government itself. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on Tuesday added an “unpublished notice” to the Federal Registry asking for public comment on the […]
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Dairy Farmers of America has partnered with food fintech startup ripe.io to launch a blockchain-backed platform for its food supply chain. Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a U.S. national milk marketing cooperative, has teamed up with food fintech startup ripe.io to pilot a blockchain-powered project aimed at improving the food supply chain, according to an […]
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Thunder Experience Cloud and LiveRamp are announcing a new partnership that offers the first personalization and measurement ad platform for the entire LiveRamp identity graph. “We are the first people-based ad server,” Thunder CEO Victor Wong told me. His company provides a creative ad management platform and server. People-based profiles versus cookie-based. LiveRamp’s IdentityLink […]
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When it comes to using loyalty points as a currency, some might underestimate the difficulty of such an application: “People kind of shrug,” Modo CEO Bruce Parker told PYMNTS.com in an interview. They think that “deploying loyalty points and redeeming them for stuff seems like something that should be pretty easy.” Consumers may be used to […]
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Easy come, easy go? For XRP the maxim holds true into a new week. Bulls are no doubt looking wistfully at last week’s action, when the price rose more than 100 percent and headlines held promise over XRP’s adoption into (a bit) more mainstream, everyday financial life. As of this writing and into a hectic […]
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