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Coinbase Launches Crypto Debit Card In The UK

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Coinbase , the cryptocurrency exchange operator, announced Wednesday (April 10) the launch of the Coinbase Card in the U.K., which is a Visa debit card that lets customers in the U.K. In a blog post , Zeeshan Feroz, chief executive of Coinbase U.K., In a blog post , Zeeshan Feroz, chief executive of Coinbase U.K.,

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Deep Dive: How CUs Are Rethinking Their Credit Solutions During The Pandemic

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Credit unions of various sizes were eager to roll out credit card innovation plans before the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset. These expectations also drove CU executives’ innovation agendas, with 91 percent voicing serious interest in developing card product innovations. percent planned to unveil mobile wallet-enabled cards.

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Bitcoin Payments Go NFC

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Instead, its latest product rollout is all about making bitcoin and digital currency payments easier to make. ” the company wrote in a recent blog post. Shake offers both plastic cards, where tap-and-pay tech isn’t available (including plastic EMV cards), along with virtual cards.

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In Cash (And BillMo?) We Trust: Serving Mexico’s Wary Unbanked

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There is a sense of confidence and trust that cash can offer that, at least in their experiences, digital and formalized banking cannot. Therefore, according to BillMo CEO Steve LaBella , a digital wallet cannot hope to appeal to these populations on the grounds of convenience, simplicity or lower cost.

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RBC, Vouchr Collaborate To Launch North America’s First Social, Personalized Cash Gifting Service

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That’s why so many gift-givers go the route of cash, checks and gift cards. Enter FinTech startup Vouchr , which aims to make the cash-giving experience a little more personal with a digital version of the Chinese “red envelope” tradition — a means of tailoring the package, at least, to say something more than just, “Happy birthday.

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Bitcoin Soars In Japan, But What’s ‘Synthetic Currency?’

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Russia’s love-hate relationship with digital currency continues. Now, Russia has overcome its fears and has opened the first digital currency exchange. This could encourage the patronage of traditional consumers who are used to financial exchange through a bank or other service provider by easing the transition to digital transactions.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. So, we all know this – chip cards were not going to fix the problem of fraud at the POS. But those wallets and the exchanges? . Depends on who you ask. Unencrypted POS Data.