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Joining the Libra Association, Tagomi will contribute at least $10 million to spend on the developing cryptocurrency. It will also support Libra, providing the necessary technical and policy assistance.Crypto prime brokerage Tagomi joins Facebook‘s Libra Association. The company will be the 22nd member of the Association and the second to join since the group’s formal foundation in October 2019. Tagomi President Marc Bhargava has already confirmed the news. But the formal announcement from...

The Dow Jones futures plummeted quite terribly yesterday. However, today, it has gained almost 300 points on its way to recovery.The coronavirus is still a major problem not just health-wise, but for financial markets as well. All of the uncertainty, fear and doubt stemming from the outbreak which started last year, has caused very visible effects on the world’s stock markets. Yesterday, stocks crashed badly, signifying the market’s worst plunge in 2 years. Now, a rise can be observed as the...

Ripple’s XRP price may be on the road to the next big move, as the company is actively expanding the scales of its activities and joined the Top 100 Remittance Companies list being the only crypto-related company there.Ripple network sent 54 million in one week from the U.S. to Mexico, according to the reports. Such a big volume level pushes XRP price greatly, even though the recent downfall. With the company reaching the top 100 cross-border payment corporations chart, new horizons are...

For the first time in history, a major credit card company is working hand-in-hand with one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges. Visa has granted full membership benefits to Coinbase – one of the largest and most popular crypto trading platforms in the United States – and is allowing the company to begin issuing cryptocurrency-based debit cards to its customers.Coinbase and Visa – Together At Last?The cards are being released starting this month, though the partnership was initially...

Visa payment processor adds Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, to its large list of friends. Can it be viewed as a good sign for law-abiding cryptocurrency business?This is a huge accomplishment for the cryptocurrency industry and a boost towards adoption. Per the official announcement by Coinbase, they have received a membership status from Visa. This is a step towards wider recognition of crypto businesses as the clean ones. At the same time, Coinbase customers will have...

The leading cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, Coinbase, has been approved as the very first “pure-play” crypto-related company to become a Visa principal member. Supposedly, this would allow the exchange to further improve its customer experience.Coinbase Becomes Visa Principal MemberAccording to an official release, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange has managed to get approval for becoming a Visa principal member.Supposedly, Coinbase is the first company in the...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) futures, as well as the Nasdaq futures and the S&P 500 futures, are moving higher thanks to a number of factors.On account of the United States celebrating President’s Day, the stock market trading remains closed. However, the after-hour trading sessions are still live as major indices surge to continue the market rally further.Today, following the Nasdaq futures and the S&P 500 futures, the Dow Jones futures also showed a modest rise....

Ripple-backed MoneyGram has announced that the new service called FastSend, that was created to allow customers to send money directly to the phone numbers of recipients, will be based on Visa and not on RippleNet or XRP.International remittance giant company MoneyGram has recently announced its new FastSend service in order to facilitate the transfer of money to the recipient’s phone numbers. The service will be powered by Visa and not by the pre-existing partnership with Ripple that offers...

CEO Lightning Labs Elizabeth Stark announced that the company has raised $10 million to further develop their project and scale the developer ecosystem. The tech company also launched its flagship product Beta Loop after a series of testing.Through a medium blog post, Lightning Labs CEO and Co-founder Elizabeth Stark announced that the tech company had raised a $10 million Series A capital. The raised capital will be used to further its lightning payment system project that is being...

Visa has announced some updates for merchants. Transactions on e-commerce sites will have higher rates, while retailers in certain services categories, such as real estate and education, will see fees decline.It got about the plan of financial corporation Visa to change the point-of-sale system for the U.S. merchants. According to the company, the move is the major system’s update through which Visa aims to persuade more people to give up using checks. Besides, the company is planning to...