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Mastercard pushes for rise in cashless payments
July 6th, 2018
Mastercard is pushing for a bigger uptake of cashless payments, but the company reassured consumers it has “massive contingency plans” for IT failures like those that blocked millions of transactions at rival Visa. Anne Cairns, the group’s vice chairman, ...
Hotmail founder: cryptocurrencies are fraudulent
June 11th, 2018
The founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, has issued a stark warning for cryptocurrency investors. Speaking to Arabian Business, the 49-year-old from Chandigarh in north-west India, who founded and then sold dotcom success story Hotmail in the late 1990s, said ...
Traders: What key events to watch this week; Euro and Asian stocks gain
June 4th, 2018
Asian stocks gained after U.S. jobs data bolstered optimism in the world’s largest economy, all but firming an interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve later this month. The dollar and the yen weakened as demand for haven assets ...
Bitcoin sees Wall Street warm to trading virtual currency
May 10th, 2018
Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are warming up to Bitcoin, a virtual currency that for nearly a decade has been consigned to the unregulated fringes of the financial world. The parent company of the New York ...
Currency exchange value dynamics
March 2nd, 2018
In a recent article I postulated that the dollar could lose all its purchasing power with a rapidity that will come as an unpleasant bombshell, even to those who already see inflation as society’s greatest problem in the ...
Lessons from the Cryptojacking Attack at Tesla
February 21st, 2018
A few months ago, the RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) team found hundreds of Kubernetes administration consoles accessible over the internet without any password protection. A couple of the instances belonged to Aviva, a British multinational insurance company, and ...
The stock market correction has arrived in Europe
February 7th, 2018
The stock market correction arrived in Europe on Tuesday. The punishing global stocks rout pushed key indexes in Germany, Spain and Sweden into correction territory, meaning they have dropped 10% or more from recent highs. All three benchmark indexes ...
Stocks In Asia Retreat; The Yen Advanced, Kiwi Dollar Jumped, Euro Traded Flat
November 9th, 2017
Stocks in Asia took a sudden turn lower, led by Japan, as some traders ascribed technically-driven trading after indexes hit historic highs earlier in the day. The yen and gold climbed as investors kept an eye on U.S. President ...
Fragmenting Countries, Part 1: Catalonia Is Just The Beginning
October 31st, 2017
Picture a life where you do most of your shopping through Amazon.com and the local farmers’ market, most of your communicating through Facebook and Instagram, much of your travel via Uber, and much of your saving and transacting with ...
Main moves in the markets and key events coming this week; Asian markets early review
September 6th, 2017
Stocks fell in most Asian markets as nations grapple with how to deal with escalating provocations from North Korea. The yen was near its strongest level for the year and U.S. Treasury yields were at their lowest since the ...
