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Bank of Russia Sets Up Taskforce to Explore Bitcoin and FinTech
February 29th, 2016
It may come as quite a surprise to some people, but the Bank of Russia will be exploring what Bitcoin technology has to offer to the financial world. The status of Bitcoin in Russia seems to be changing on ...
Visa Checkout Launching Across Europe and India
February 23rd, 2016
Merchants and Consumers in Six New Markets Can Take Advantage of Safe Easy Online Payments in Just a Few Clicks Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), announced that its leading online payment service, Visa Checkout, will be available to merchants and consumers ...
Burger King in the Netherlands Accepts Bitcoin
February 22nd, 2016
The Burger King Arnhem branch also announced that anyone that pays in bitcoin will receive a second burger (Whopper) for free and the restaurant will host bitcoin meetups for tourists and bitcoin enthusiasts. The Netherlands’ Arnhem city is known ...
PayPal Eyes Growth in New Alliances With Vodafone, America Movil
February 22nd, 2016
Mobile carriers are gateway to 740 million potential customers Payments business looks beyond e-commerce for revenue PayPal Holdings Inc. forged new mobile-wallet partnerships with telecommunications giants Vodafone Group Plc in Europe and America Movil SAB in Latin America, ...
The Schism Over Bitcoin Is How Bitcoin Is Supposed to Work
February 12th, 2016
THE BITCOIN COMMUNITY can’t even agree on whether it’s breaking up. Last month, Mike Hearn—an ex-Googler and one of the biggest names working on the software underpinning bitcoin—made more than a few headlines when he called the digital currency “a failed ...
PayPal Puts a Stop to Bitcoin-Inspired Ad Parody
February 11th, 2016
‘New Money’ campaign gets an imitator after the Super Bowl PayPal Holdings Inc. this week blocked a parody of its “New Money” Super Bowl ad that swapped in “bitcoin” as the future of money. PayPal, which lets users and ...
GAIN Capital to Launch International Money Transfer Business
February 10th, 2016
Pioneer in online foreign exchange trading set to launch service in the second quarter Will operate as ForeignExchange.com Offers alternative to high bank fees and will serve retail and business customers GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. a global provider of ...
Visa Puts Consumers in Charge of Security
February 9th, 2016
Visa Consumer Transaction Controls to Allow Consumers to Direct How, Where, and When Their Credit and Debit Accounts Can Be Used Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), a global leader in payments, is introducing a new service to help Visa issuers empower consumers ...
Bitcoin: A 21st Century Currency Explained By a Wall Street Veteran
February 8th, 2016
Jason Leibowitz is a former Wall Street professional who pivoted careers in 2014 to focus full-time on digital currency. In this paper, Leibowitz answers questions about how bitcoin was created, how it works and why it matters. It has been ...
Visa Opens its Global Network with Launch of Visa Developer
February 5th, 2016
Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) announced the launch of Visa Developer, a milestone that transforms the world’s largest retail payments network to an open platform that will drive innovation in payments and commerce. For the first time in the company’s nearly 60 ...
