FinTech

According to Ripple CTO, the new exciting features are coming from the Ripple developers. They will allow third-party tokens to work on top of the system. Also, XRP Ledger will soon have the ability to eliminate accounts of possible network spammers.Ripple’s XRP price falls together with other markets. But David Schwartz doesn’t care as the Ripple Ledger, XRP and the longtime holders will soon receive a significant boost. A company presents a new type of transactions for externally created...

With AMZN stock down 4%, the e-commerce is facing competition from Walmart that is working on a new service Walmart+ to surpass Amazon Prime. As coronavirus reaches for more countries outside China, tech companies are suffering stock collapse. This week, Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) plunged 6% each. AMN Healthcare Services Inc (NYSE: AMN) and Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) dropped 7.3% and 5.6% respectively. Further,...

MKM partners prepared a list of stocks that may have the greatest chance of doing well during the times of the coronavirus. The list includes AAPL, FB, NFLX and others.Some all-weather stocks could lift investment portfolios even amid coronavirus. This comes at a time when markets are plunging. While this isn’t investment advice, these stocks could help mitigate the risk associated with sideways markets. Here’s the kicker: most of them have something to do with serving home-based services....

Tech stocks are negatively influenced by the coronavirus and are falling seriously. The most significant drops were demonstrated by AAPL and MSFT yesterday.Most of the tech stocks fell yesterday notably.First, it was Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) that said it will not meet its guidance.Microsoft (MSFT) and CoronavirusPrecisely, it wrote, quite worrying letter to investors in which it says:“Because of closely monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 health emergency, for the third quarter...

Ripple’s partner, SBI Remit will closely work with Fukushima Bank, which is one of the major Japanese financial institutions, to enable the fast transfer of money.SBI Remit, a partner of Ripple which uses its RippleNet, announced that it will partner with one of the largest banks in Japan Fukushima Bank. The partnership will see Fukushima Bank responsible for handling all SBI international remittance services.The representative director of SBI Remit Nobou Ando stated:“With the steady rise of...

The global markets have been bleeding for the fourth straight day in a row after the U.S. Health officials warned against a possible coronavirus outbreak. In just four days the S&P 500 has crashed over 10% registering its fastest crash to date. Dow has lost 1000 points.Things are clearly not looking good for the global markets as threats of a global coronavirus outbreak intensifies. On Thursday, the Dow Jones dropped 4.5% over 1000 points dragging down several bluechip stocks as well!On...

Within its new partnership with Ripple, Azimo will use Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity service for fast payments into the Philippines.Ripple through its official web page has announced a groundbreaking partnership with one of the largest European remittance companies Azimo. The new partnership will provide Azimo with Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) to provide fast and cheap remittance capabilities into the Philippines. However, plans are underway to see the services expanded to other...

Though Ripple hoped that it would manage to stop its class-action lawsuit, the legal battle seems to continue.A federal judge from California has ruled against the request from Ripple to stop a class-action lawsuit that claims the company sold XRP to its customers as an unregistered security. This means the case will go ahead as planned initially, a big blow to the XRP and Ripple community at large.Ripple had requested to stop the lawsuit back in December 2019, where Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton...

Microsoft (MSFT) stock fell 1.76% in pre-market trading on Thursday, a day after the company said it doesn’t expect to meet the quarterly revenue guidance it previously provided for the segment that includes Windows.Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) said on Wednesday it probably will not meet the quarterly revenue guidance due to the coronavirus it previously said it will. In the official statement, the company said that on January 29, as part of its second quarter of the fiscal year 2020...

Some companies had their stocks in the news recently as prices changed for different reasons. And one of them is the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.At pretty much any point in time, the movement of the individual stocks in the equities markets all over the world easily makes news. Analysts are always with their ears to the ground, trying to figure out why certain stocks are performing the way they are. If they soar, most times, it’s a direct effect of certain market factors or decisions the...