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Forex News

  • Dollar Steadies Above Lows as Focus Shifts From Payroll Shock to CPI
  • Sterling today: Pound firms as soft U.S. jobs data weighs on dollar
  • Bunds consolidate as traders weigh sinking U.S. payrolls against oil rise
  • How coordinated currency buying interventions work
  • Strategist explains why U.S. yen support is built to fail

Federal Reserve News

  • Federal Reserve Board announces approval of the application by Coastal Bend Bancshares, Inc.
  • Federal Reserve Board announces approval of the application by FS Bancorp, Inc.
  • Federal Reserve Board announces approval of the application by Banco Santander, S.A. and Santander Holdings USA, Inc.
  • Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize its rule governing the extension of credit to bank "insiders"—bank executives, board members and major shareholders who could potentially influence a bank's lending decisions
  • Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize rules for mutual banking organizations

WSJ Markets News

27 January 2025

  • Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China's DeepSeek
  • Comex Gold, Silver Settle Lower
  • DeepSeek Won't Sink U.S. AI Titans
  • Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
  • Arabica Coffee Prices Hit Record on U.S., Colombia Tariff Spat
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Mobile Phones Promise to Bring Banking to the World’s Poorest

Written by: HBR
Category: Mobile Banking

Roughly 2.5 billion people around the globe living on less than $2 per day are about to benefit from the power of banking brought to them on mobile phones.

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Why Bitcoin Will Beat Mobile Payment To Its Game In Africa

Written by: Coin Telegraph
Category: Digital Currency

Indications are rife that Bitcoin use will grow in parts of Africa in the coming years in the mobile payment market which Statistics says is expected to grow to 101.34 million users in 2016.

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Millenials are Embracing the Idea of Branchless Banking

Written by: Matthew S Daye
Category: Banking

When it comes to new ideas in currency, banking and ATMs, the concept of branchless banking seems to be growing in popularity. According to a survey performed by Accenture, consumers in the U.S. and Canada are now more likely to consider branchless banking or non-traditional providers. What's more, millenials, are more likely to consider branchless banking than other segments of the population. What does this mean for the future of banking, and what can financial institutions do to survive the trend?

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What Does a Little Blue Box Have to do With ATM Channel Management?

Written by: Matthew S Daye
Category: ATM

Do you remember the 1960's infamous little blue box? That plaything of the technically inclined from long ago was a pre-cursor to some of the security challenges faced by the ATM industry today.

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Keeping Mobile Banking Safe and Secure

Written by: Matthew S Daye
Category: Mobile Banking

Remember when stopping at the bank was something we had to do every once in a while. Neither do we. But apparently at one time people chose their bank if it was located on the right-hand side of the street on the drive home from work. Today a customer is likely to choose their bank if it has a hot new app in the "app store."

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Introducing Monero's Ethereum-Killer: Tari - Coinjournal

Written by: Coin Journal
Category: Digital Currency

Riccardo “Fluffy Pony” Spagni and a team of industry experts have announced a brand new protocol built on top of the Monero network. Designed with never before seen features, Tari is positioned to become more than another “me-too” protocol that enables token creation.

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What Happens To Your Bitcoin After You Die?

Written by: Investopedia
Category: Digital Currency

Bequeathing assets in the form of inheritance is a long standing wish for many individuals, whether it is to their children or grandchildren, to a university, or to a charity. When it comes to bank accounts, investments, or property, there are established rules, laws and protocols that are followed such as the use of wills, life insurance, trusts, and probate. How does one, then, transfer ownership of Bitcoin to their heirs?

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Bitcoin News

  • Bitcoin Notches Its Best Q3 Since 2021: Can It Hold?
  • ERCOT Hits Pause on Texas Data Center Queue. How Worried Should AI Infrastructure Investors Be?
  • Bitcoin ETFs Post Best Week Since April With $854 Million Inflow
  • Ethereum Devs Want ETH Staking Rewards to Hit 0% at 50% Staked
  • Airplane Mode Speeds up Phone Charging by 4 to 11 Minutes, CNET Finds

Coin Telegraph News

  • UK regulators to prepare tokenized gold framework: Report
  • Here’s what happened in crypto today
  • Bitcoin Red Team founder turns to Chinese AI: ‘It absolutely guts me’
  • Australia orders Cryptolink Bitcoin ATMs offline over ‘basic reporting’ failures
  • Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like unexplained breach: Quantus founder

Coin Journal News

  • World Chain to launch streamed EIP-7928 block access lists
  • Pi Network tests triangle breakout as RoboPay partnership boosts adoption
  • Ethereum price stalls as retail selling offsets whale accumulation
  • Dogecoin holds $0.070 as bullish divergence signals easing selling pressure
  • AAVE holds above $90 as protocol deposits rise, but retail demand weakens
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