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SA Fintech Enables Electricity, Airtime and Data Purchases Using BitcoinSV
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SA Fintech Enables Electricity, Airtime and Data Purchases Using BitcoinSV

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South African fintech, Centbee, launched a new feature in its BitcoinSV wallet today that allows you to purchase prepaid electricity, airtime and data. This is the realisation of a dream by co-founders Lorien Gamaroff and Angus Brown, finally making the vision for bitcoin as electronic cash a reality. Read More: Analyticom Introduces a Scientific Model......
Industry Leaders Launch PayID, the Universal ID for Payments
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Industry Leaders Launch PayID, the Universal ID for Payments

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Leading technology, finance and nonprofit companies join forces to announce the launch of PayID, a universal payment ID to simplify the process of sending and receiving money globally – across any payment network and any currency. GoPay, Ripple, Blockchain.com, BitPay, Brave, Flutterwave, Mercy Corps and others have collaborated on the......
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A Few Interesting Reads on Finance and FinTech

Tanika Mehrotra
In view of the current Covid-19 pandemic, FinTech firms are enhancing their traditional methods and trying to adapt to modern needs by innovating in different segments, be it payments, digital banking, machine learning, gamification, and more. The importance of saving money or investing money has never felt more important, not......
Incapital Adds Two Senior Sales & Trading Executives to Fixed Income Team
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Incapital Adds Two Senior Sales & Trading Executives to Fixed Income Team

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Firm expands best-in-class platform; thirteen professionals hired over past eight months Incapital LLC, a leading underwriter and distributor of fixed income securities and risk management investment solutions, announced that it has hired two industry veterans to expand its fixed income platform and continue the firm’s institutional growth strategy. Incapital’s newest......
InterWork Alliance Launches to Standardize Token-Powered Ecosystems Worldwide
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InterWork Alliance Launches to Standardize Token-Powered Ecosystems Worldwide

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Platform-Neutral Organization Empowers Businesses to Standardize the Interchange of Tokenized Value Across Use Cases and Networks The InterWork Alliance (IWA) formally launched operations as a platform-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the standards frameworks needed to increase innovation across token-enabled ecosystems. Distributed applications have the potential to disrupt global economics, but......
Spain's CaixaBank Teams with IBM Services to Accelerate Cloud Transformation and Innovation in the Financial Services Industry
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we.trade Digital Trade Finance Network Strengthens Collaboration With IBM

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IBM joins founding banks as a new shareholder we.trade, a  blockchain-based platform that makes international trade faster and more efficient, announced an enhanced collaboration with IBM which will enable network enhancements and accelerate the global commercialisation of the platform. IBM has also become a new shareholder along with the 12......
John Scuorzo Joins Evercore as Senior Managing Director in its Capital Markets Advisory Practice
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John Scuorzo Joins Evercore as Senior Managing Director in its Capital Markets Advisory Practice

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Evercore announced that John Scuorzo has joined the Firm’s Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director in its Capital Markets Advisory practice. He will be based in New York and Menlo Park and will focus on advising clients in the technology sector. Read More: Abrigo Adds Transparent Artificial Intelligence......
NEAR Protocol Project Raises $21.6M Round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Launches MainNet to Bring Open Web Business Models to Founders Everywhere
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NEAR Protocol Project Raises $21.6M Round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Launches MainNet to Bring Open Web Business Models to Founders Everywhere

The team behind the NEAR Protocol, a decentralized application platform, simultaneously announced the completion of a $21.6M funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund and the early launch of their production MainNet network so developers can begin deploying applications to the platform immediately. Read More: Finhabits Launches Microlearning Journeys to Help......
Instimatch to Leverage Algorand Across Multiple Use Cases to Advance Institutional Settlement and Payment Solutions
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Props Raises $2m in Funding Led by Union Square Ventures and Borderless Capital, Moves to Scale on Algorand Platform

Funding and infrastructure upgrade to support Props’ growth beyond its 3M users The team behind Props, a network built to reward application users with a financial stake in the network they contribute to, announced that it has raised approximately $2M in token-sale financing from a number of funds and strategic partners led......
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