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Dukascopy presents Dukascopy Payments SIA
July 31st, 2015
Dukascopy Bank SA presents a new group member – Dukascopy Payments SIA, EU licensed subsidiary specialized in mobile instant payments. Dukascopy Payments SIA is 100% owned by Dukascopy Bank SA. The company’s services are based on Dukascopy Connect mobile ...
PayPal Celebrates Listing on Nasdaq and Completes Separation from eBay Inc.
July 21st, 2015
PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal”) (Nasdaq : PYPL) announced that it has completed its separation from eBay Inc. (“eBay”) and is now an independent public company trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “PYPL.” The company’s leadership ...
Westpac VC invests in Bitcoin player Coinbase
July 8th, 2015
In a deal that will put Westpac Banking Corp in the box seat as cryptocurrencies develop, the bank’s venture capital fund, Reinventure Group, has invested in Coinbase, one of the world’s pre-eminent Bitcoin companies. In the first deal involving ...
Bitcoin: What you didn’t know but always wanted to ask
July 7th, 2015
A new technology for the banking world: “The internet of money” In 2008, an individual or group writing under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper that described a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that “would allow online ...
Codename Citicoin: Banking giant built three internal blockchains to test Bitcoin technology
July 3rd, 2015
Citigroup, the global advisor of multi-nationals and governments, has been using its scale and reach in some surprising ways, such as conducting transactions on mobiles without bank accounts in Kenya, and developing blockchains within the bank and test-coins to ...
SafeCharge: Strategic partnership and investment
June 3rd, 2015
SafeCharge (AIM: SCH), the global provider of payments services, technologies and risk management solutions for online and mobile businesses, announces that it has agreed to enter into a strategic partnership with German based FinTech Group AG (“FinTech”) which is ...
The Challenges Facing Bitcoin Payments Adoption
May 8th, 2015
While several online retailers have made the move to integrate bitcoin payments on their platforms, it seems that gaining mainstream acceptance is still a huge challenge. During the first Virtual Currency Today Summit held by Networld Media Group, bitcoin ...
Hogan Lovells Advises Optimal Payments Plc on €1.1 Billion Transformational Skrill Acquisition
March 24th, 2015
Hogan Lovells has advised Optimal Payments Plc on the €1.1 billion acquisition of Sentinel Topco Limited and its subsidiaries (Skrill Group) from Sentinel Group Holdings S.A, which is ultimately majority owned by funds managed and advised by CVC Capital ...
Oil-Product Prices Fall as Supplies Climb
January 8th, 2015
U.S. Inventory Data Confirm the Market Is Still Oversupplied Prices at the gas pump are heading even lower. Gasoline futures fell to nearly a six-year low on Wednesday after U.S. government data showed oil and fuel supplies rising to ...
Bitcoin ATM Goes Live at Google’s London Co-Working Space
November 6th, 2014
Visitors to Google’s ‘Campus London’ co-working space will now be able to buy bitcoin and spend the cryptocurrency on a coffee or muffin thanks to its new bitcoin ATM. Conveniently, the UK’s first BitAccess-made machine is located in the ...
