Visa is expanding the testing of its B2B payments technology, B2B Connect, into Thailand, according to reports. The Nation reported that B2B Connect is now being piloted by Thailand’s largest bank Kasikornbank. “Visa is proud that we have representation from a Thai financial institution in the pilot program,” said Visa Thailand Country Manager Suripong Tantiyanon in […]
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The US-based crypto exchange Coinbase has announced a new process for listing digital assets, opening the door for the listing of digital coins that are compliant with local laws of countries outside the US, but not necessarily the US itself. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world for […]
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Good news for traders across the world; global banks, along with international trading companies, have recently announced the first blockchain-based platform, called Komgo, that will allow financing for trading of commodities ranging from oil to wheat. The platform, which will be developed in partnership with blockchain technology company ConsenSys, will go live later in 2018, […]
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Maybe Isaac Newton — the hopelessly hopeful alchemist who came up with some solid rules of physics — was a genius of business and even B2B payments, too. After all, one of his main rules concerns the tendency for objects (by which he means everything in the universe) to remain in a state of inertia. […]
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Tech giant Dell says it aims to remain a leader in the Indian server market by introducing blockchain products. Tech giant Dell EMC Technologies plans to remain a leader in the Indian server market by introducing products that have blockchain capabilities, local news outlet Economic Times India reports September 26. Dell has identified blockchain, artificial […]
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The biggest Bitcoin block to date has been mined! But although it is the biggest block, it had about 1,400 fewer transactions than the average block on the Bitcoin Network. From soft and hard forks to protocol upgrades, to the implementation of Segwit and to the future outlook of the Lightning Network (LN), the Bitcoin network […]
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The chairman of the Kenyan DLT and AI task force has proposed that the government tokenize the economy in order to fight the “increasing” rate of corruption. Kenyan Distributed Ledgers and Artificial Intelligence task force chairman Bitange Ndemo has said that the government should tokenize the economy, local news outlet The Star reported September 25. […]
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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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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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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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