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TBCASoft, IBM and SoftBank Corp. have announced their collaboration in an effort to transform the industry of telecommunications. The companies will work on developing cross-carrier blockchain solutions, offering new services to telecom carriers and their clients, and promoting advanced business models.TBCASoft is a US-based startup company that focuses on developing technologies especially for the sector of telecommunications. Founded in 2016, the company received funding from SoftBank, and...

Facebook‘s head of the Libra project – David Marcus – has recently given an indirect warning to the U.S. lawmakers of losing the digital currency war to China, if the company’s Libra Project fails.Since its Libra cryptocurrency announcement in June 2019, Facebook has been in odds with the regulators over the Libra launch. The regulators have repeatedly questioned Facebook’s ability to execute this project at a global level.However, David Marcus has warned Washington that if Libra is derailed,...

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday that Paris, Rome, and Berlin will join together in the effort of blocking Facebook’s new digital currency Libra in Europe.This is not the first time Le Maire is showing his hate towards cryptocurrencies. Last month, when he spoke about Libra, he said that this kind of technology, developed by the social media giant “causes serious concerns and therefore its operation cannot be authorized for use on European soil.”He added that the Libra...

Photo: Galileo Financial Technologies / YouTubeA gentleman named Clay Wilkes had already decided to retire and enjoy his late years when he changed his mind – he’d rather not to. In 2000 this amazing entrepreneur launched Galileo Financial Services and already then realized the growing demand for better integration between and financial institutions and secondary services.19 years later, what his company does exactly that is the back-office connections with financial institutions and, boy,...

Charles Schwab, a San Francisco-based bank and stock brokerage company, has announced they will allow their clients to buy and sell fractions of stocks. The initiative aims at attracting the interest of young investors to Charles Schwab and makes it the first online brokerage that offers its customers such an opportunity.The announcement follows the company’s decision to eliminate trading commissions for U.S. stocks, ETFs and options trades earlier this month, which led to other brokerage...

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...

On Wednesday, October 16, a top official from the Federal Reserve confirmed that the Central Bank of the United States is actively evaluating the possibility of issuing a digital currency. This report comes amidst the growing fear that the U.S. Dollar will lose its prestige and value of being the world’s reserve currency.Rob Kaplan, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, was speaking at a local business event in Austin, Texas. Addressing the audience, Kaplan said:“We have not at...

Warren Buffett is causing yet another market buzz with his next line of action, and this time, his investor-compass is pointing again at the Bank of America. The seasoned investor wants to up his stake in the bank past 10%, and this planned move is already raising eyebrows.Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s company, made it clear in a Fed filing that its intentions do not include any merger, selling of Bank of America assets or the introduction of a new business strategy, rather all it is after is...

A local news report in South Korea has recently confirmed that the Korean government is planning to move trade finance completely on a blockchain network in the next two years by 2021.The announcement was made by the South Korean Trade Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki who introduced the developmental plan for digital trade on Monday, October 14. According to Nam-Ki, the South Korean government will apply the next-generation technologies like Big data, AI and blockchain. The government has plans...

Ripple Labs Inc has taken one more step in consolidating its global remittances and payments network with a new partnership with London-based Fintech firm Finastra. The company announced this yesterday in a statement indicating the partnership will offer Finastra’s customers access to Ripple’s Mainnet blockchain. Being one of the most successful banking software solutions firms in the world, Finastra offers software solutions to all across the financial value chain and the global linkages it...