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In a recent interview in Japan, Ripple's Senior Director of Global Operations revealed that XRP does not compete with CBDCs or stablecoins; it chases the same goal origin »
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The central bank of Japan has appointed a senior economist to lead the department overseeing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced on Friday that senior bank official Kazushige Kamiyama will now be heading the payments and settlement department and managing CBDC research, Reuters reported.
2020-7-31 12:02 | |
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Cryptocurrencies have always treaded the gray area of regulations, with any development on the matter satisfying none and riling up almost everyone. According to Craig DeWitt, Senior Director of PrThe post Ripple's DeWitt: Central banks can launch CBDCs within a day appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-6-12 23:30 | |
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IBM and Oracle are in the process of integrating blockchain networks built on Fabric according to an announcement during the Phoenix Hyperledger Global Forum. Oracle’s senior blockchain director, Mark Rakhmilevich, noted that this initiative began way back in 2018 with SAP onboard as well; “We have done full testing with IBM and SAP. The three […]
2020-3-10 16:48 | |
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New statements were made by a panel of senior banking officials on the subject of On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) at the Swell 2019 event held in Singapore. The panel was hosted by Ginger Baker, Senior Director of Product at Ripple along with panelists from goLance, Bitso, FlashFX, and Interbank Peru. The subject of blockchain and cryptocurrencies […]
2019-11-8 18:31 | |
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Bitcoin could be a “substitute for gold, silver and other precious metals” in wealth portfolios – David Andolfatto In an interview, St. Louis Federal Reserve Senior Vice President and director of research, David Andolfatto talked about how Bitcoin is not a very good monetary instrument because of its fixed money supply model. To be a […]
2019-9-20 18:27 | |
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Amir Zaidi, director of the CFTC's Division of Market Oversight, is to leave the regulator within weeks, according to Bloomberg Law.
2019-8-9 11:06 | |
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Mozilla has patched its Firefox browser for a second time in response to a spearphishing campaign targeting employees of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, ZDNet reports. According to ZDNet, hackers have been attempting to phish Coinbase staff with emails containing links to malicious websites.
2019-6-21 15:08 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook has just hired a senior UK bank lobbyist ahead of GlobalCoin launch to help the company cope with European regulations. According to the Financial Times, Facebook will employ Standard Chartered European Head of Corporate and Public Affairs Ed Bowles from September as its London-based director of public policy.
2019-6-14 15:14 | |
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Singapore-based blockchain services provider EVX Holdings, Pte. Ltd. , operating as Everex, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lao Development Bank (LDB) to develop and implement blockchain technology for cross-border payments and trade finance.
2019-6-13 00:55 | |
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As international guidelines surrounding crypto take shape, a senior economist at the Bank of England (BoE) has reiterated the institutions’ commitment to supporting the development of digital assets.
2019-6-10 17:51 | |
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In Monday’s Money20/20 Europe panel entitled, “How Do You Benchmark Innovation in 2019,” moderator Kristian Luoma, Head of OP Lab at OP Financial Group, kicked off the discussion with an open-ended question: What does innovation mean to you? Ripple Senior Director of Product Ginger Baker answered quickly, “Innovation is about delivering the future.
2019-6-20 01:38 | |
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It’s been a rollercoaster afternoon for Huawei news, even by the manic standards of this month. First, TechRadar managed to get a senior Huawei executive to confirm, on the record, that the company’s rumored Android replacement would be released next month.
2019-5-29 22:07 | |
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Senior Russian Official: Terrorist Groups Are Increasingly Using Cryptos Ever since cryptocurrencies started to become more mainstream, a lot of people have claimed that they would be used by terrorists, something that is currently not happening a lot, despite the fact that several groups have at least tried to receive crypto investments. Now, Alexandre Bortnikov, […]
2019-5-21 22:06 | |
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The director of Russia’s federal security service has warned that terror groups are increasingly being financed through cryptocurrencies
2019-5-21 16:48 | |
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By CCN: As military tensions escalate between the US and Iran, a senior Iranian official has lashed out at President Trump. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, director of foreign affairs, called Trump a “crazy president,” who is “unbalanced,” and “unstable.
2019-5-21 15:28 | |
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eToro has quickly risen to the top of the crypto ecosystem. They have had a series of new hirings. Among tem is Iqbal Gandham, who is the Managing Director of their UK division. Iqbal manages eToro's business activities in the UK.
2019-5-18 21:13 | |
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Blockchain technology is continuing to make inroads into the business world, with established tech giants joining startups in seeking new applications for the distributed ledger. However, there several other ingredients are needed before this technological cocktail really starts to fizz.
2019-5-18 19:48 | |
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Samsung is planning to extend its crypto and blockchain support to its range of Galaxy phones, according to a local report. In an article from Business Korea, Chae Won-cheol, senior managing director of the Product Strategy Team at Samsung Electronics’ Wireless Business Division, said: “We will lower barriers to new experiences by gradually expanding the […] The post Samsung supporting Ethereum on additional Galaxy smartphone models appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-5-15 07:34 | |
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Despite the lackluster launch of the latest Samsung Galaxy S10’s cryptocurrency and blockchain features, the Korean tech giant is reportedly looking to trickle the technology down to its budget smartphones.
2019-5-14 16:30 | |
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Ripple’s Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Asheesh Birla recently participated in a live stream with Ripple’s Senior Director… The post Ripple SVP Hints at Further Expansion After Tapping on Mexico and Philippines appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-4-18 13:23 | |
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Asheesh Birla, the SVP of Product at Ripple while speaking with Ginger Baker, the senior director of product at Ripple recently talked about RippleNet, XRP among other things. Starting with what exactly Ripple is trying to solve, he explains how the initial idea was to move money like information. But today still sending money is […]
2019-4-16 18:05 | |
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The New York Times has revealed the steps it takes to protect its journalists’ privacy and online security. Speaking to Vice on the CYBER podcast, Runa Sandvik, the newly-instated senior director of information security at The New York Times shed light on the tools and practices employed by the media organization to maximize safety forRead MoreRead More.
2019-4-10 05:00 | |
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A recent Bitwise report threw the lid open on crypto’s chronic issue of wash trading. Now a senior OKEx executive has admitted to Crypto Briefing that the exchange has a problem with artificially inflated volumes.
2019-3-28 17:17 | |
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On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more than just Bitcoin voices from every corner of the industry.
2019-3-15 01:08 | |
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The conviction of two former, high-ranking Russian cybersecurity officials for undisclosed acts of treason last month underscores deteriorating cybercrime cooperation between Washington and Moscow, as U.
2019-3-14 00:17 | |
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The job of a top lawyer at Apple Inc. was to ensure that no employees violate the company’s insider-trading policies. It turned out that he was the one who was trading Apple Shares illegally, according to US regulators.
2019-2-16 11:50 | |
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An innovative take on the disruption of world order with blockchain technology rolled out with UCIM, the United Conference of Internet Money. The two-day blockchain and cryptocurrency event as held at Singapore on November 26 and 27, 2018, and started with an aim to revamp the adoption, investment, disruption and regulation of the global market.
2019-1-10 08:00 | |
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Phillip Shoemaker, Former Apple Exec, Becomes Identity.com’s Executive Director Phillip Shoemaker has been with Apple for years as an executive for the company. Serving as a Senior Director, his LinkedIn profile shows that he “designed and implemented App Store submissions volume predictions, achieving 95% accuracy on incoming volumes,” among many other roles. Building up multiple […]
2018-12-13 21:26 | |
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For nearly a decade, participants in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space have operated in a regulatory compliance gray zone. Recent developments — at both the federal and international levels — signal that the time for plausible deniability or unregulated freedom is coming to an end and more traditional regulations are moving to the forefront.
2018-12-3 19:20 | |
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Having met the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2018, officials of VanEck, SolidX and Cboe BZX Exchange have met with the Commission again, in the latest attempt to convince the regulator to approve the nation's first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an official presentation submitted to the SEC.
2018-12-1 01:17 | |
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Blockchain startup Bloq has announced the appointment of former Fidelity Investments executive Hadley Stern as its first chief operating officer — the latest in a string of hires poached from a legacy financial firm by blockchain startups.
2018-10-23 19:05 | |
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WhatsApp has appointed a ‘grievance officer’ to address complaints concerning the spread of fake news and misinformation on its platform in India, reports the Press Trust of India on NDTV. This comes in response to the government’s demands from earlier in the year, following a nationwide string of lynchings believed to be incited by false information shared on WhatsApp.
2018-9-24 10:36 | |
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Kin Ecosystem Foundation, the nonprofit governance organization for the Kin cryptocurrency, has announced the appointment of Matthew DiPietro as its chief marketing officer (CMO) today, September 18, 2018.
2018-9-18 19:38 | |
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Citing the importance of hackathon culture at Coinbase, the prominent US exchange recapped the recently held Vision Hack 2018 — its biggest hackathon event to date. Talking about experimentation and creative ideas, Senior Director of Engineering Namrata Ganatra focused on creative solutions to critical business issues.
2018-9-8 17:29 | |
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Twitter has deprecated three of its legacy developer APIs. As of today, the Site Streams, User Streams, and its REST Direct Message Endpoints are officially retired. Shakeups are seldom welcome, and bracing itself for an angry developer backlash, Twitter has published a blog post explaining its reasioning behind the cull of its APIs.
2018-8-16 19:05 | |
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This month, we celebrate Ethereum’s third birthday and reflect upon the many milestones that have occured in the industry since the dawn of the original smart contract blockchain.
2018-8-15 21:53 | |
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Samsung officially revealed its latest wearable, the Galaxy Watch, today at its Unpacked event. Samsung accidentally spilled the beans on the Watch late last month with a store listing. But we learned a bit more about the Watch at this event.
2018-8-9 19:24 | |
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During an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance, Dan Roberts [Senior Writer at Yahoo finance ] revealed facts regarding the Tether Bitcoin market manipulation scam investigation conducted by Former FBI Director, Louis Freeh.
2018-8-5 19:45 | |
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Fintech businesses struggling to stay inbounds of government rules may soon receive a dose of much-needed guidance via the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
2018-8-3 18:23 | |
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It is a proven fact that the blockchain has an impressive 99. 64 percent reliability. However, the same can’t be said of cryptocurrency exchanges. Amidst that backdrop, Sameer Dixit, the Senior Director of Security Consulting at Spirent Communications, has identified some characteristic flaws of crypto exchanges which must be tackled to shield the over $350 billion cryptocurrency industry from more heists.
2018-7-20 07:00 | |
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IBM are showing no signs of slowing its rampage across the blockchain sector: now teaming up with prestigious Columbia University to solidify its role in the industry. Inventively named the Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Data Transparency, the partnership is looking to leverage Columbia’s academic and scientific networks to further develop blockchain technology.
2018-7-17 18:13 | |
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Ripple employs former Facebook’s Global Director of Financial Services Payment Partnerships to develop global payment systems
2018-7-12 02:36 | |
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Facebook appears to be getting more serious about blockchain, having recently named an engineering director dedicated to the technology. The social media giant has appointed one of its senior engineers, Evan Cheng, as its first “director of engineering, blockchain.
2018-7-6 20:25 | |
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A senior executive from the provider of China’s top photo-retouching app, Meitu, will now lead HBUS – the new U. S. strategic partner of cryptocurrency exchange Huobi. According to an announcement on Monday, Frank Fu, former managing director of Meitu’s global business, will join the fledgling U.
2018-6-25 19:07 | |
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In our first employee spotlight, Ripple interviews Raghu Battula the Senior Director of Engineering. We ask what brings him to Ripple and what he's looking forward to in his role. The post Ripple Employee Spotlight: Raghu Battula, Sr. Director of Engineering appeared first on Ripple.
2018-6-17 12:50 | |
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