Tag: Cryptocurrency

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What Did the IMF Call a “Significant Disruption” to the Financial Landscape?

by PaymentsJournal

July 15, 2019

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Facebook’s Libra Makes China Jumpy. Maybe Because It Competes With China’s Own Crypto?

by Tim Sloane

July 9, 2019

Facebook’s announcement of Libra was similar in scope to Elon Musk’s announcement he would put men on Mars by 2024. ...

Facebook Pay now available to 120 million Brazilians

Banks Shouldn’t Let Apple Pay Experience Impact Decision on Libra

by Tim Sloane

June 25, 2019

This article in Bloomberg suggests that banks are deciding to stay on the sidelines because they over committed to Apple ...

Vodafone Dumps Libra, Libra Touts Governance Is Sustainable

Bank of England Bucks the Trend – Offers Accounts to Non-Banks and Welcomes Libra (With Regulatory Caveats)

by Tim Sloane

June 21, 2019

The BBC reports that Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England and Chair of the Monetary Policy Committee, ...

Is Facebook a Help or Hindrance to Libra?

by Tim Sloane

June 18, 2019

There is a place for cryptocurrencies and they will start to edge into mainstream payments, but if this statement in ...

The Big Facebook Crypto Reveal

by Tim Sloane

June 14, 2019

The WSJ started the ball rolling this morning and then Techcrunch and Digital Transactions articles added more. Digital Transactions was ...

Crate and Barrel, Nordstrom, Whole Foods (maybe Starbucks) Now Accepting Crypto

Crate and Barrel, Nordstrom, Whole Foods Now Accepting Crypto

by Tim Sloane

May 14, 2019

Any startup that can have so many large merchants agree to accept a new payment mechanism at launch certainly deserves ...

Your Debt Collector Wants to Friend You on Facebook

Facebook Reportedly Plans to Launch Private Cryptocurrency Platform – But Why?

by Aaron McPherson

May 3, 2019

On May 2, 2019, the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled “Facebook Building Cryptocurrency-Based Payments System; Social-media giant is ...