Recently, the UK fintech startup Currencycloud ran a series E funding round. Among the participants were Sapphire Ventures, Notion Capital, Anthemis, Accomplice, and Google’s venture wing GV. All of them supported Currencycloud earlier. Besides, the startup boasted it had attracted new investors. Visa, World Bank arm International Finance Corporation, BNP Paribas, Siam Commercial Bank and former Softbank spinoff SBI Group joined the round and invested as much as $80 million.The round has...
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XRP, directly the third-biggest crypto with an ongoing market capitalization of $8.8 billion, has plunged about 2% of its price, trading at $0.2000 at the hour of writing. The crypto reversed from the price level at $0.2255 arrived earlier this week, after announcing that Binance had added the token to the list of cryptos accessible for futures trading, with leverage up to x75.Also, in an ongoing discharge, Alloy Networks reported a completely independent token electrical transfer board. The...
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Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) wants to develop a mobile application that runs on Ripple. The 112-year-old bank has around 16 million customers and they want to deliver “happiness and smiles” to their customers. Not really sure how a banking app can cause smiling and happiness, but SCB’s SVP of Commercial Banking, Arthit Sriumporn believes that it can be achieved by partnering with Ripple.Alright, putting jokes aside, let’s look at the results of a recent survey by PwC. They have found out that...
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