Wharton Fintech

AUGUST 15, 2024

Since joining Coinbase in 2018, Shan has played a crucial role in expanding Coinbase Ventures’ portfolio to over 450 companies, including notable names like Uniswap , Zora , and Consensys. Additionally, we discussed how stablecoins are revolutionising cross-border payments, providing efficient, low-cost solutions for global transactions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2019

In other news, Vaishali Mehta, who worked as a senior compliance manager at Coinbase, has left the company to become the head of compliance for TrustToken , which produces the TrueUSD stablecoin. And it is far from the only financial institution to find itself in trouble in 2018. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) handed out a 30.10

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Cointelegraph described the initiative as “a stablecoin backed by a network of banks.” As Karen Webster noted way back in 2018: “Money has been digital and moving around the world that way long before most people started talking bitcoin, crypto and distributed ledger tech.”. Initially, the network will be supporting U.S.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Global blockchain firm Binance and blockchain payment service provider BitPay are teaming to increase adoption of the BUSD Binance stablecoin, according to an announcement. It is reportedly financing the service with a mixture of borrowed capital and funds that it took in from a token sale in 2018. CoinDesk reported.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 11, 2024

. “The legacy payment industry is ripe to be disrupted using blockchain technology and stablecoins to provide more efficient and cheaper cross-border payment networks,” RD Technologies CEO Rita Liu said. Finovate participated in the city’s Fintech Week back in 2018 as part of FinovateAsia.

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Finovate

MAY 27, 2025

The company may use the proceeds to expand globally, strengthen compliance, and develop new tokenized financial products as it competes with Tether and other stablecoin issuers. Stablecoin issuer and infrastructure company Circle is bringing positive news to fintech this week.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Illicit share of all cryptocurrency transaction volume, 2018-2023, Source: Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Crime Report, Chainalysis, Jan 2024 Conversely, the data reveal an increase in ransomware attacks and darknet markets, indicating challenges in cybersecurity and a resurgence in these illicit activities.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 2, 2025

Dr Khaled Al-Dhaher, vice governor, supervision and technology, SAMA, Saudi Central Bank, Mo El Husseiny, founder and managing partner, Ventura Capital and moderator Sir Charles Bowman, advisor to PwC UK and FinTech Growth Fund who was Lord Mayor of London between 2017 and 2018.

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Clearly Payments

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services also surged, with a 400% increase in usage since 2018. Popular Examples : Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC (stablecoins). Cryptocurrency and BNPL : Cryptocurrency use in payments is projected to grow to $250 billion by 2030. Popular Examples : PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay, WeChat Pay.

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Finovate

APRIL 29, 2024

” Founded in 2018, DigiShares made its Finovate debut at our online fintech conference in the spring of 2021. The platform enables users to fractionalize assets, companies, and funds down to $107 (€100); allows investors to pay in both fiat and stablecoin; and facilitates P2P and wallet-to-wallet trading without counterparty risk.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Treasury Department is researching use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as well as drafting regulatory proposals for private stablecoins, U.K. The exchange has increased regulatory rules over the past two years, requiring customers to reveal their identities in 2018. 6), CoinDesk reported, citing regulatory concerns.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 16, 2024

XA Network XA Network, established in 2018 as part of the Google alumni network, is an investment network comprising senior executives from leading global and regional technology companies. Since 2018, the network has made more than 70 investments, according to its website, including 18 fintech startups.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Each of these companies raised funding since 2018 and has at least $40M in total funding. Tokens & cryptocurrencies: These companies provide digital tokens, currencies, and stablecoins powered by blockchain networks. This market map consists of private, active companies only and is not intended to be exhaustive of the space.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

The group, which has been releasing detailed central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and cryptocurrency reports as of 2018, is geared toward CBDCs and retail and wholesale payments. . The OMFIF seeks to create connections between the traditional banking and cryptocurrency spaces.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 4, 2024

As a result, in early 2018, Stripe announced it was no longer going to support crypto payments. It is back offering USDC stablecoin payments on Ethereum, Solana and Polygon. Stablecoins are pegged to a currency making them a lot less volatile than another crypto like Bitcoin.

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Fintech Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Avalon Labs is the worlds largest issuer of Bitcoin-backed stablecoins. Building the ultimate on-chain financial hub for Bitcoin, offering a seamless ecosystem that includes a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin, BTC-backed lending, yield-generating accounts, and a credit card. Avalon Token (AVL) functions as the governance token of Avalon Labs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Tether is a stablecoin (in turn backed by United States dollars), and Bitfinex allegedly raided reserves to make payouts to consumers looking for redemptions. That estimate comes from Chad Cascarilla, who helms Paxos, which offers its own stablecoin. As detailed in events that transpired in 2018, “The situation looks bad.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2019

David Marcus, CEO of Facebook’s wallet service Calibra , said that Libra could use national currency-pegged stablecoins like a dollar stablecoin, rather than the synthetic one it initially proposed, Reuters reported on Sunday (Oct. Marcus said he was not suggesting currency-pegged stablecoins were the group’s new preferred option.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2020

30 tweet by @cryptobuyer, a Panama-based crypto platform, there is one Burger King in the Sambil area of Caracas that accepts coin payments from bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Binance Coin, Dash and the stablecoin Tether. Petro launched in November 2018. Confirmed in a Dec.

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 8, 2024

.” Founded in 2018, Hex Trust provides institutional-grade financial solutions to over 270 institutional clients, including banks, funds, exchanges, financial institutions, protocols, dApps, and foundations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Centre also says that USDC has expanded quickly as of its 2018 rollout, and is now the biggest in addition to quickest expanding “fully-reserved and regulated digital dollar stablecoin in the world.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Centre Consortium was co-founded in 2018 by Circle and Coinbase and governs the USDC. The growth of USDC over the course of 2020 is indicative of what I expect will be the path for Centre business activities and that of future Centre-supported stablecoins.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

The group, which has been releasing detailed central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and cryptocurrency reports as of 2018, is geared toward CBDCs and retail and wholesale payments. . The OMFIF seeks to create connections between the traditional banking and cryptocurrency spaces.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

When Libra launches in 2020 or in the future, it will be a currency that’s tied to real money, called a stablecoin. A top court in India signed off on the Reserve Bank’s 2018 crypto ban after operators on the country’s exchange protested. However, Facebook hasn’t asked for India’s permission specifically.

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The Paypers

JANUARY 11, 2019

(The Paypers) Since 2018, UNICEF has been promoting the use of blockchain technology for donations acceptance, currently admitting DAI platform to its system.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

The synthetic offering would be created as a stablecoin for public use, which in turn is backed by central bank reserves. Back in 2018, the BIS’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures detailed that, beyond the general-purpose use cases – i.e., widely accessible – lies a wholesale payment variant.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Juno’s flagship product will allow users to hold the dollar-pegged stablecoin and earn a 5.5 What Juno will be able to add is a very simple user experience which is required for retail adoption,” Varun Deshpande, who launched Nuo with Ratnesh Ray and Siddharth Verma in 2018, told CoinDesk. “If percent annual interest rate.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Libra is being designed as a stablecoin, which means that it’s backed by currency and companies like Visa, PayPal and Uber, as opposed to bitcoin, which is more volatile and speculative. Bitcoin hasn’t been as high as $9,000 since May of 2018, and the cryptocurrency is now up 14 percent since January.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2019

In fact, bitcoin has more than tripled in value from its low at the end of 2018, giving investors hope that the worst is over for the world’s most popular crypto. The cryptocurrency hit the milestone late Friday (June 21) and by the next morning, it had climbed above $11,000.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In 2018, the crypto world was seen to be of marginal importance to the global financial system. Hong Kong’s chief securities regulator is calling on the world regulators to get on the same page when it comes to Facebook’s Libra to avoid the “real risk of regulatory arbitrage.”. “If

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Managed stablecoins, such as the proposed Libra, are clearly securities under existing law,” Garcia said in a statement last week. We recognize that stablecoins are an emerging technology, and that policymakers must carefully consider how this fits into their financial system policies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

He said that BitPay’s B2B payments grew by 250 percent in 2018, despite the fact that bitcoin, at the same time, plunged 80 percent. Recent announcements of initiatives such as the JPMorgan stablecoin and Facebook’s Libra have helped validate the move to bring cryptocurrencies more broadly into international payments.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 28, 2024

Since 2018, Antler has helped create and invested in more than 1,000+ startups across a wide range of industries and technologies, with the goal of backing more than 6,000 by 2030. Antler operates in 27 cities across 6 continents, including Austin, New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, and Sydney.

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Fintech News

JUNE 10, 2024

Prior to joining Team Ignite Ventures, Ahmed co-founded Wind.App, a cross-border remittance platform that uses blockchain technology and stablecoins to offer faster and cheaper transactions. He joined the firm back in 2018 as an analyst, where he honed his expertise for two years. Founded in 2022, the startup secured US$3.8

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CB Insights

JUNE 12, 2018

In April 2018, 129 ICOs closed for about $600M, down from 215 and $1.2B Basis is building a “stablecoin” that is intended to be less volatile than other cryptocurrencies. These include some private rounds and pre-sales. with more pre-sale capital, blockchain companies rely less on icos. in December 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. billion in 2018 — twice as much as last year. The end of this month, Oct. At the same time, investments in blockchain tech are positively puny.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

As noted in The Financial Review , the Reserve Bank of Australia has said that there are risks tied to the stablecoin, and that global efforts for any digital coins (Libra included) must address those risks before launch. Moving beyond U.S.

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