MoneyGram Partners Up With Ripple Ripple made waves in the equity markets this month when it committed $50 million in capital for equity in the money transfer company, MoneyGram, briefly sending the stock (MGI) up more than 100% in after-hours trading. Per FinTech Futures: With the aim of cutting the costs and timescales associated with…
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Bitcoin Comes to Whole Foods and Other Major Retailers Flexa recently announced the launch of its new mobile payment app, SPEDN, that will allow users to spend ETH, BTC, BCH, and the Gemini Dollar as easily as it is to use Apple Pay. Flexa revealed that SPEDN was created in partnership with Gemini exchange and…
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Mastercard Backs Out of Earthport Deal, Acquires Transfast Mastercard’s bidding war with Visa for payment-technology firm Earthport intensified in February, capped off by a $320m offer by Visa that forced Mastercard to drop out. One month later, Mastercard announced that it had agreed to acquire a different cross-border payment startup, Transfast. Transfast does not have…
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Signature Bank and JP Morgan Launch the First US Bank-Backed Crypto Tokens When JP Morgan announced its rollout of the “JPM Coin”, the dollar-backed token was hailed as the first of its kind. However, it seems that Signature Bank was the first US Bank to back a crypto token with its January 2019 launch of…
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Acorns lands $105M Funding Round On January 28, Acorns Grow Inc. completed a $105M funding round led by NBCUniversal and the Venture Capital arm of Comcast. Their investments were a surprise to many, but it appears CNBC will help produce personal finance videos for the Acorns app, which challenges the notion that millennials don’t save…
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Robinhood announces Checking & Savings Accounts Cash Management Platform Earlier this month, Robinhood made one of its biggest announcements to date: Robinhood Checking & Savings, a new banking service built into the app that would pay users 3% annual interest, with no fees or minimum deposits, and it would all be protected by the SIPC (Securities Investor Protection Coorporation).…
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Coinbase Lists Basic Attention Token (BAT) Basic Attention Token is the latest coin to be integrated by Coinbase as they make a push to offer users more assets. Coinbase also allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, ZRX, and USDC So why did they pick BAT? Basic Attention Token…
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