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In a recent interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, Anthony Pompliano, the co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital, has argued that the United States must tokenize the dollar to remain competitive in the shifting global financial landscape. Pompliano urged lawmakers to “tokenize the dollar immediately,” asserting that China is in the process of developing a digital yuan, with other countries aiming to soon follow suit. He argues that the status of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency is...

While Facebook is trying to do everything it possibly can to ensure proper regulatory approval before the Libra is launched next year, China’s own digital currency is much closer to its launch. The anticipation for the Chinese digital currency has now had some measurable effect on fintech companies in the country as their stocks seem to be swelling impressively.According to a Reuters report, the China Securities Index Co. (CSI) fintech theme index – an index that follows the major financial...

Libra Association Managing Director Bertrand Perez said on Friday that the Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra, that should be launched by a Geneva-based association next year, is not intended to replace existing currencies. He said:“We are not in the area of implementing any monetary policy with the (Libra) Reserve.”This confirms what Libra’s CEO David Marcus was speaking back in July at the hearings when he kept stressing that Libra is not an investment and it doesn’t want to conquer the...

A rather inspiring presentation from the head of Facebook’s Libra David Marcus seems to have inspired someone else as well and neither more nor less – Coinbase CEO himself. Yes, you’ve heard it right, Brian Armstrong came out as a real supporter of this, still developing stablecoin.The thing is that Libra is often represented as a project that carries labels such as “alienating”, “controversial” or even “poisonous”. Even though it still hasn’t come out at the light of the day, it has already...

Following a rousing presentation from David Marcus - the head of Facebook's Libra - Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has come out in support of the developing cryptocurrency.Libra is often depicted as a pretty divisive and maligned project. It's not shocking to think that a cryptocurrency with plans of financial domination - emanating from a company with a checkered past of privacy problems - has regulators and citizens up in arms. Nonetheless, Libra now has at least one supporter, Coinbase's CEO...

Everybody is aware of the scandals that undermined trust in the social networking giant Facebook. According to Mark Zuckerberg, the company didn’t pay proper attention to protecting privacy, that’s why the company had to deal with the consequences of data leak and the spread of fake news. To fix this, Facebook’s CEO is all set to make everything, including Libra, right.Speaking in an interview with Asia-based news outlet Nikkei, Mark Zuckerberg said:“In the last few years, there are a lot of...

Speaking to the German federal parliament Bundestag on Wednesday, Benoit Coeure, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) said that Facebook’s currency Libra could possibly fix some of the troubling issues that exist at the international payments market. However, he warned that, on the other hand, it might create other problems that will need regulators to act more liberal and creative. He said:“Libra has undoubtedly been a wakeup call for central banks and...

California based financial company SoFi announced it added crypto trading to its fast-growing SoFi Invest platform and that the live trading will begin on next Tuesday. Among the first cryptocurrencies that will be added for trade on SoFi Invest platform are Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC).As per the announcement, the idea came as a reaction to demand from its network that has more than 800,000 members. Beginning next week, SoFi Invest will become the first platform that...

Fidel, a fintech startup based in the United Kingdom – which provides developers with a functional application programming interface (API) for building new offers on networks belonging to major card companies – has just successfully pulled in $18 million in its recently concluded Series A funding round.The funding round was led by two venture capital firms based in the U.S., QED Investors and Nyca Partners. Other participants include 500 Startups, Horizons Ventures, Commerce VC, Citi...

Boston Dynamics announced that it is introducing its first major market to the world for sale. The company has been talking since June about a public release of its Spot robot dog that was previously known as SpotMini. On September 24, the company published some highlights of what is to be expected from their latest project.The robot is not going on sale immediately but companies with good ideas and deep pockets can get one. Thus, the odds of spotting a Spot in the wild...