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New Year, New Blockchain Use Cases?

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For instance, the Review noted, Venezuela has introduced a crypto backed by oil production. However, it is in smart contracts where a practical use of blockchain may have some torque. At least some cryptocurrencies are becoming national in scope, which may spur blockchain adoption.

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FutureBank and Paymentology Forge Strategic Partnership to Deliver Instant Issuance and Advance Modernisation Benefits

Fintech Finance

The company operates in over 50 countries bringing a deep, local market knowledge across 14 time zones. FutureBank , is an open banking platform and fintech marketplace that helps banks, brands and fintechs integrate new banking and financial service products into their core systems and deploy them at scale with minimal cost and effort.

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Mastercard: COVID-19 Is Prompting Treasury Banks To Prioritize Digital Payments

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She said Mastercard is aiming to optimize payment strategy with the objective of bringing customers an easier experience through the use of things like intelligent routing and a new push-payments partnership, which Mastercard recently announced with Ingo Money.

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Airwallex CEO and Co-Founder Jack Zhang?—?empowering businesses to grow beyond borders

Wharton Fintech

We provide products from payments and collection, FX and payout all the way to embedded finance to allow or empower any businesses to operate the whole financial and payments stack on top of our platform. Companies such as TripAction and Niven utilize our infrastructure to power reimbursement products worldwide via our core API.

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The Edge Computing Ecosystem: From Sensors to the Centralized Cloud

CB Insights

For example, Telsa cars have powerful onboard computers which allow for low-latency data processing (in near real-time) collected by the vehicle’s dozens of peripheral sensors. This provides the vehicle with the ability to make timely, autonomous driving decisions. Get the full 59-page report.

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FIS: Blockchain Transformation Must Be Deliberate

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Esther Pigg, SVP Product Strategy of FIS , says blockchain’s potential benefits will instead be discovered gradually, and will change the industry even more gradually. In other words, she said, it’s like a big, shared Excel spreadsheet that’s everywhere, updated all the time in real time and verified as new cells (or blocks) are added.

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Infosys Spearheads Blockchain Network In India, UAE

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Together, Emirates NBD and ICICI Bank will use their blockchain framework to transact between each other for trade finance and remittance purposes. They’ll use the EdgeVerve Blockchain Framework for Financial Services product, reports added.