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Crypto - The Digital Free Banking Revolution

25 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Virendar

In today's day and age we are surrounded by the monotony of national fiat currencies. Most often a nation has a national bank, or something that functions in a similar capacity, which prints the national currency. While exceptions exist such as the E...

Are Central Banks About To Join Ethereum?

21 Jan 2020 1 minute read 5 comments The0xFactor

A recent whitepaper was published by Consensys called "Central banks and the future of digital money" serving as a proposal to central banks around the globe. What was the key take away message in this whitepaper? That central banks looking into crea...

Ripple continues its expansion in Southeast Asia, the oldest Thai bank will use XRP for cross-border payments

9 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

The Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) is the oldest bank in all of Thailand, consequently the partnership that will tie it to ripple for the next few years is a decidedly relevant event; according to what reported yesterday with a post on the official rippl...

A new crypto-bank will be launched on the British market by the first quarter of 2020

3 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

At the head of the operation will be Mark Hipperson, Barclays group technology manager for over a decade, and the project involves the creation of a new bank, active in the English market, which will allow users to manage both cryptocurrencies and fi...

Banks are Developing Digital Currencies and Opening Themselves to Cyber Risk

31 Dec 2019 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

Cybersecurity will be hard pressed to take on the new challenges of bank managed digital currencies Banks are developing their own digital currencies.  The introduction of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) is the beginning of an interesting tre...

Hey Canadians!!! Have You Heard Of Koho’s Prepaid Cash-Back VISA???

19 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments d00k13

Loving their service so much that I was given first dibs on the new metal cards 💪 I earn cashback on everything, saving made simple with goals and roundups, detailed budgeting analytics, referral bonuses, in app customer support, financial coaching...

Bitcoin and negative rates downloaded to current account holders, the German case

21 Nov 2019 2 minute read 1 comment Roberto D.

As noted, Draghi's last move at the head of the ECB was to impose negative rates on bank deposits with the European central bank; the aim was to encourage the banks to invest the money and lend it since the money transmission chain is blocked and the...

Ripple Invested Half Billion Dollars To become Leader in Global Payment.

20 Nov 2019 1 minute read 3 comments alberdioni8406

Ripple XRP invested Half Billion Dollars in efforts to Conquer the market. Lately Ripple is doing an tremendous campaign in order to detain more financial Companies offering them softwares to link with the XRP token and let them adopt this way of pay...

The Sleeping Giant - When (Not If) Will XRP Come To Life?

15 Nov 2019 5 minute read 14 comments JLettermanMB

XRP is extremely undervalued. Take everything into consideration, and do your own due diligence. Consider the market, coin comparisons, the track record of Ripple, its usage, volume, history and more, and we have a sleeping giant right under our nose...

Jamie Dimon: J.P. Morgan to Rely on Blockchain Tech

10 Nov 2019 5 minute read 0 comments MintDice.com

J.P. Morgan, the biggest of the top four U.S. banks is gearing towards heavy applications of blockchain technology. This is at odds with its CEO, Jamie Dimon’s stand on Bitcoin, which he has referred to as a fraud in the past. In fact, at an investor...