FinTech

Amazon (AMZN) is not the only stock that went down. Because of coronavirus, China will stop providing necessary physical and virtual services to the U.S. As a result, the market reacts with the overall drop in prices.At the beginning of 2020, e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been showing not a very impressive performance. Such an outcome results from the company’s stock underperforming significant benchmarks over the previous six months. Until mid-January 2020, Amazon could...

Ripple has been included in the list of the top 100 cross-border payment firms by FXC Intelligence. It is ranked with top giants in that field like PayPal and also UBS.The San-Francisco blockchain company Ripple Inc. has been recognized by FXC intelligence as one of the top 100 most important companies globally that are dealing with border payments in 2020. Ripple is the only crypto-related company that made it in the list of the cross-border whales.FXC Intelligence is a financial data...

Global markets across Europe and Asia have plunged severely on Monday as South Korea and Italy report several new affected cases of the coronavirus on Sunday. Analysts request investors to maintain caution at this stage.At press time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures lost over 400 points to 28,540 levels. At the Monday opening, the stock futures are having a massive bloodbath on Wall Street as the coronavirus cases outside China surge significantly.As the possibility of the global...

The noise around coronavirus is growing. Stocks in Asia are falling due to this situation and there are no signs of improvements.South Korea’s coronavirus alert level has been raised to its highest levels, it has led to a new drop of stocks in Asia. Sources report that this action occurred as 161 new cases have been reported. Seven deaths have been reported so far.Markets in Japan haven’t reported any data due to holiday closures on Monday. The Korean currency won fell to 1,219.22 per dollar....

Dow drops 280 points, stocks down thanks to coronavirus panic in the U.S. investors pour cash into treasuries and gold. Market analysts predict corporate and personal income fall in the next months. Favipiravir needs tests to cure coronavirus.Chinese people are fighting the virus in a closed source model and many people keep their concerns regarding the coronavirus spreading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls, and experts claim that stagnation is coming.COVID-19 is not as deadly as some...

Bank of America (BoA) is the second-largest bank in the U.S. It reportedly will join RippleNet for fast and cheap cross-border payments and exclusive infrastructure. But there is still no official confirmation.Bank of America has a long history of relationships with the Ripple company. In July 2019, the bank even filed a patent claim based on the new technology: Ripple’s DLT. The institution also has a Real-Time Settlement patent, also they already ran pilot projects with Ripple.Since 2015,...

BitGo and Bitso are two new additions to RippleNet. Ripple has released information about its current XRP holdings, as well as the list of large companies (like Microsoft) that help Ripple grow.Per the Ripple stats, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the leading company working on its blockchain and processing the transactions. XRP has entered a turbulence zone recently, with the token price rushing up to $0.29 two days ago. At the moment of writing, its price is $0.28.They are...

Apple is reportedly set to give iPhone users the opportunity to install third-party apps as default for mail and browser. AAPL stock loses 1%.The iPhone’s operating system is known to be quite closed. While it is not reduced in functionality, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) controls pretty much all of the default apps that are pre-installed on the iPhone. This decision by the tech giant has ensured a certain level of monopoly with its products but has angered many other projects that design applications...

As part of its portfolio reshuffling strategy for 2020, investment giant David Selected Advisors decided to dilute its stake in Microsoft (MSFT) while simultaneously seeing a strong potential and increasing its stake in the Intel (INTC) stock.Since the beginning of 2020, the markets have been soaring massively making fresh highs every week. Earlier this week on Wednesday, both S&P 500 and Nasdaq made their record highs. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) continued to soar a...

Brazil won’t adopt RippleNet or XRP as the Central Bank has announced its own payment network with low fees, fast transactions and huge liquidity. The PIX coin starts off in Q4 2020.The Brazilian government has decided to implement a new almost instant payment solution, presumably called the PIX coin. It will shine in Q4 2020 via mobile devices and POS terminals, and they have no plans on adding Ripple‘s XRP.The project was developed by the Central Bank of Brazil and received the name PIX. It...