PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

Bank had in place erroneously capped the number of alerts, which hindered law enforcement’s ability to spot suspicious activity. LaFontaine was warned by his subordinates and by regulators that capping the number of alerts was dangerous and ill-advised. The capped alerts were in place for at least five years.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 2018, companies from 31 countries and 19 categories — spanning payments, digital banking, insurance, and more — made it onto the CB Insights 2018 Fintech 250 list. Below, we dive into where the Fintech 250 Class of 2018 startups are now. Highlights from the fintech 250 Class of 2018. Phone number. Click to enlarge. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2019

Bitcoin, that marquee name in cryptocurrency, has seen its price swell by roughly that 60 percent number through the last few weeks, to about $8,000. Bitcoin got a huge jump on Monday (May 13), up 25 percent on the day, though there was no news specific to the cryptocurrency.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

New data shows a projected 14 percent increase in fraud attempts during the upcoming 2018 holiday season, with fraud likely to peak on Thanksgiving Day. At the same time that bitcoin’s market cap was falling, rival digital currencies Ripple XRP and Ether were battling it out for the second-place spot in terms of digital currencies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

The head of two cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea were detained by law enforcement for allegations they embezzled the assets of customers. The action on the part of South Korean prosecutors is the latest in a series of raids the country has been conducting on the largest cryptocurrency exchanges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

It has also been a weight on the price of bitcoin, which has seen its prices struggle in early 2018 after explosive growth capping off 2017. There is no intention to ban or suppress the cryptocurrency (markets),” Kim said, adding the government’s immediate task is to regulate exchanges. Illegal foreign currency trading of 472.3

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2018

Bitcoin fell below the $8,000 level on Tuesday (March 27), CCN reported – and the cryptocurrency market as a whole could fall below a market cap of $300 million. The technology would use cryptocurrency – in what has been dubbed a Cooperatively Managed Merge and Pass (CMMP) system – to allow communication between vehicles.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

This is just the latest dip bitcoin has experienced since the beginning of the year, which started due to reports that South Korea and China were thinking about banning the trade of cryptocurrencies, which led to fears of a wider regulatory crackdown. There is a lot of panic in the market.

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Fintech Review

AUGUST 29, 2024

The conference will take place on September 18-19, 2024, gathering key players from the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors worldwide. Celebrating the second anniversary of its native cryptocurrency, WBT , WhiteBIT has seen its price double to over $10 with a market cap of $1.4

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

And in 2018, just after bitcoin’s price seemingly peaked at the end of 2017 at just under $20,000, the famed investment firm said bitcoin could indeed be used as a form of currency. The nod to speculation caps a period where bitcoin , as volatile as ever, recently traded at roughly $9,300, off a recent low of around $8,700.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

To date, an estimated 130 deals have been inked in 2018, valuing about $400 million. Separate analysis from CoinMarketCap released this week found continuing adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies has led to a $457 billion market cap for the world’s cryptocurrency players.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In December 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon was looking at airports as a potential Amazon Go partner. In March 2018, Greenlight Financial announced crossing 100,000 customers, growing its customer base 300% since the investment. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B Amazon SMB Lending. in 2017 and 2.6%

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

Live briefing: BLOCKCHAIN TRENDS IN 2018. Join us for a deep dive into blockchain in 2018. Companies are arranged in descending order of market cap (as of 03/16/18). . “This market cap is not justified,” he said on CNBC’s Fast Money three days after the announcement. First Name. Longfin corp.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. As of 2018, the app had 3.7M Launched in 2015, Stash had 1.7M

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

Elsewhere, the promise and the premise of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is one where just about any unit of value becomes uniform and accessible to anyone across the globe. The offering is slated for summer of 2018. Conversely, there is always risk in those same investments, in terms of loss of capital. Here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

There are many ways to generate cryptocurrency — buying, selling, trading or mining tend to be the most popular ways to come by it. But if one could generate cryptocurrency by watching movies? Both rewards categories have a $2,500 quarterly spending cap. . Crypto Cash Back For Media Consumption.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

It is reported to result from a 3(R)-2(D) decision by commissioners after determining that the user data issues related to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica breach violated the 2012 consent decree Facebook entered into with the FTC. The 2018 update to our annual How We Will Pay study of 6,000 U.S. Trust, but Adjust.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

Mobile SMB loans: Big surge here, as a Kabbage survey found a 360 percent ramp-up in the number of SMB loans applied for over mobile conduits, as measured over a roughly four-year period ending in February 2018. Ripple has been hoping to make waves, of course, and the price has been hit hard in the overall decline in cryptocurrencies.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 22, 2024

Africa 2018 (Cape Town): Bambu (CLOSED): Raised $13M, for its robo-advisory services OUTvest (acquired by Alexforbes): Online investment advisor, strong growth through user-friendly platform and competitive fees. Asia 2018 (Hong Kong): Arival : Raised $10.8M, digital bank for freelancers and SMEs, receiving strong initial user feedback.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2019

The proposed credit card interest rate cap legislation , courtesy of Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is in serious need of an almost half-century-old refresher course in the unintended consequences of price caps on the American consumer. Here’s why.

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Clearly Payments

JANUARY 8, 2025

In the world of payments, two forces are shaping how we exchange money: credit cards and cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies, on the other hand, burst onto the scene in 2009 with the launch of Bitcoin and have seen explosive growth ever since. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, and several others remain the largest by market cap.

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Fintech News

MARCH 23, 2025

Acquired by Flipkart in 2016, PhonePe quickly gained market dominance and reached unicorn status in 2018 , just three years after its inception. The Indian company took nearly two decades to achieve unicorn status, joining the elite club in 2018 after a significant funding round. As of December 2024 , PhonePe processed USD $95.81

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