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China’s Tencent Is Researching Potential Company Cryptocurrency

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Chinese technology company Tencent has announced it’s going to start researching cryptocurrency and its implications for an ongoing project in blockchain, according to reports. Tencent is also currently looking for a leader of the research group.

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Bangladeshi Heist Linked To 2014 Sony Hack

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The search for the Bangladesh cyberheist fraudsters has taken an interesting turn with new research indicating the involvement of the same hackers behind the 2014 hack on Sony Pictures. to develop the malware and similar spelling error patterns were other findings that led researchers to the conclusion, as ZDNet pointed out. .”

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RBR Research: Payment Cards Projected To Hit 17 Billion By 2021

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That’s according to new research from London-based RBR. In the newest global payment cards research released on Oct. That number is up 2 percent from 2014. The number of global payment cards will grow by 28 percent to 17 billion by 2021. The study mentioned that debit cards make up 70 percent of payment cards globally.

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Bitcoin Daily: US Marshals To Hold Bitcoin Auction; Researchers Claim New ‘Spider’ Tech Can Route Crypto Payments More Efficiently

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The bitcoin for the auction is from more than 50 administrative forfeitures and legal cases, according to the Marshals Service, which held its first bitcoin auction in the summer of 2014. Investor Tim Draper won nearly 30,000 bitcoin across 10 auction blocks. .

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FICO Research: Broader Mix of Consumers Obtaining New Mortgages

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Once the refinance boom ended in 2014 , the volume shifted back to purchase mortgages, which tend to be a lower scoring population than the mortgage-experienced refinance segment. Also, building off our millennial research, we quantified how mortgage 90+ day delinquency rates over 2 years vary by borrower’s age.

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Researchers Aim To Answer Big Questions In AltFin

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Researchers found that alternative lenders provided more than $36 billion in 2015 for both SME and consumer financing — a major leap from the $11.4 billion recorded in 2014. The researchers plan to release their latest report on alternative finance across the Americas later this year, reports said.

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New Research Highlights Online Fraud Spike Tied To EMV

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This week, PYMNTS, in collaboration with Socure , released the March edition of the PYMNTS.com Digital Identity Tracker TM , featuring all new research surrounding the increase in online fraud fueled by the increase in EMV card chip tech adoption. Other highlights from the survey include: Only 1.1%

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