OneConnect Financial Technology which is the artificial intelligence and blockchain arm of Ping An Insurance that is easily one of the largest insurance firms in China has come forth with the terms for its IPO valued at $468 Million. Sources indicate that based on the F-1 Filing of its prospectus with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the firm intends to conduct the initial public offering which is aimed at raising between $432 million and $504 million via issuing...
Read More »BNY Mellon Joins Trade Finance Blockchain Marco Polo Aiming to Go Live Quickly
The latest reports have revealed that the Bank of New York Mellon has officially joined the Marco Polo trade finance consortium. This consortium is known to run on R3’s Corda and BNY Mellon has become the 28th bank to join. The bank has been constantly investing in the blockchain space since 2015. As we highlighted previously, the investments have significantly increased in recent months.The $373-billion asset bank is reportedly evaluating Marco Polo’s technology intending to onboard clients...
Read More »PayPals Ex CFO wird von der Bank of America verbannt ?
Die Bank of America hat beschlossen, das Bankkonto von Roelof Botha, einem der besten Risikokapitalgeber der Welt und ehemaligen CFO von PayPal, zu schließen. Roelof Botha gehört eigentlich zu den Personen, um die sich Banken streiten müssten. Für die Bank of America trifft dies scheinbar nicht zu. So wird man einen Kunden los und zukünftig eventuell noch weitere. After being a customer of...
Read More »Bank of America Shuts Down PayPal ex-Executive’s Account
An ex Paypal official complained that Bank of America has notified him of shutting down his account soon without any explanation given. Actually, the bank did say it “carefully reviewed his banking relationship”, whatever that supposed to mean. Former Paypal’s CFO Roleof Botha said he was utterly surprised when he saw the notification about closing down his account. And, not just that, Bank of America was so kind so it gave Botha 30 days to “take his money and run”.After being a customer of...
Read More »Won’t Happen With Bitcoin: Bank of America Shuts Down Ex-PayPal CFO’s Bank Account
One of the largest US banking institutions, the Bank of America, has recently decided to close the account of the former CFO of PayPal. The decision came without an explanation, despite the fact that he had been a client for over 20 years. Needless to say, Bitcoin’s censorship-resistant nature is one of the things that bring it up as a viable alternative in scenarios of the kind.Bank Of America Shuts Down An AccountThe former CFO of PayPal and current partner at Sequoia, Roelof Botha, shared...
Read More »Warren Buffet’s Profits Receive Enormous Rise despite Market Uncertainty
Warren Buffett and his company had their total capital rising to a record of $128 billion during Q3 2019, сovering all the losses and showing the company has some great risk management tools. The measure supposes to help the company’s under-performing stocks, while some market analysts claim it will make the stocks fall faster. Berkshire spent 1.7 billion in Q1, 442 million in Q2, and 700 million in Q3 on repurchasing stocks in 2019. They also have changed the rules by which the stocks...
Read More »Ripple Invests in Biometric Cyber Security Startup Keyless
Photo: PixabayBlockchain startup Ripple is once again in news for investing in a cybersecurity startup called Keyless in the latest $2.2 million seed funding round. Keyless specializes in creating security products that can unlock access to users’ biometric data and private keys.Based in London, Keyless claims itself to be the first global company combining biometrics with multi-party computation. With its unique product offering, Keyless has attracted major investors like venture fund...
Read More »Former Bank of America Executive Joins Ripple as Head of Regulatory Affairs
The blockchain startup Ripple is currently facing some major regulatory hurdles as investors have raised questions over the state of XRP being securities. To tackle this matter at hand, Ripple has brought some financial industry heavyweights to its board.In one such move, Ripple has recently appointed ex Bank of America executive – Benjamin Melnicki – as its head of Regulatory Affairs. Melnicki’s job at Ripple will be communicating and maintaining absolute transparency regarding Ripple’s...
Read More »Bitfinex Requests Subpoena to Access Seized Funds Worth $880 Million
Bitfinex, the cryptocurrency exchange which has been enmeshed in a legal tussle for a while now, has filed an application with the US Court in the Central District of Southern California, through its parent company, iFinex Inc. Filed on the 18th of October 2019, Bitfinex wants the Court, through a subpoena, to help recover more than $850 million that has been unreachable by the exchange because of supposed problems being faced by the company’s payment processor Global Trade Solutions AG,...
Read More »Bank of America Tests Ripple’s DLT but Has No Plans to Use XRP Yet
Bank of America, one of the most prominent banks in the United States, has taken a bold step by adopting Blockchain technology after testing out Ripple’s Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in its banking system and appears to be ready to go a bit further with the implementation of the technology.Bank of America’s commitment to Ripple might just stir the storm for other banks too. This development of the course has been in process for a long while and is by no means sudden. Last year in...
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