It is always preferable to have a positive attitude about all things in life, but when it comes to investing, unfortunately, you must be aware of your potential downside in all situations. At those times, it is necessary to put the old “negative” hat on and decide what might make your world an inhabitable place…
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GMEX Technologies Ltd. has just launched the latest release of its GMEX Fusion Digital Capital Markets technology suite, built on IBM (NYSE: IBM) Blockchain Platform. This technical advancement empowers institutional investors with a hybrid solution and will support multiple digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, security tokens, and more. GMEX Fusion is designed to support multi-cryptocurrency transactions…
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According to Gartner, one of the world’s most respected consulting firms when it comes to divining new market trends, blockchain technologies will transform most, if not all, industries about the globe over the next decade. The firm just completed its latest annual survey on the topic and has determined that corporate CIOs are definitely on…
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The advent of blockchain technology created a level of hype and enthusiasm that the Fintech industry had not witnessed since, perhaps, the introduction to the masses of the Internet. A few intuitive futurists had actually discerned years back that the “Internet”, per se, was nothing more than an “enabler” of a wave of innovative thinking…
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The Greenwich Associates (GA), a global analytics and consulting firm based out of Stamford, Connecticut, has published a new report, which sounds an alarm bell that blockchain technology, i.e., Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), when applied to the cross-border payments space, could be overly disruptive and undo financial arrangements that have evolved over centuries. The report…
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LeapRate Exclusive… Stefan Deiss is the co-founder and CEO of BLOCKCHAIN PROPULSION, a global accelerator program designed to build start-ups and enterprises into successful blockchain-powered businesses. Stefan joins Leaprate today to talk about BLOCKCHAIN PROPULSION and the blockchain/cryptocurrency industry in Switzerland. LR: Hi, Stefan, happy to have you at Leaprate. As a start, could you…
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Blockchain is everywhere, disrupting it all. Islamic finance is also getting disrupted by the technology and some companies are quick to snap up the popular trend of deploying blockchain for business purposes and retaining customers. R3, a blockchain enterprise vendor is one such company. It has recently entered a partnership with a startup based in…
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In an ongoing reality play that has continued for nearly two years, the grandstanding performance of a one Craig Wright, who claims to be the real “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the inventor of Bitcoin and the blockchain, was brought to a semi-close, when a Federal judge, the Honorable Bruce E. Reinhart, ruled that he had “intentionally submitted…
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Bitcoin enthusiasts were shocked when Samsung’s newest models, the Galaxy S10 and the Note 10, hit the market in March, and Bitcoin apps were nowhere to be found on the devices. What happened? There was so much press that had hyped the inclusion of a Bitcoin wallet app and support on the Samsung phones and…
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Bank of America is one of the US banks that is clearly leading in the blockchain-patent game. BofA has filed for over 60 blockchain-related patents so far. This is a major breakthrough since Bank of America is actually the second largest bank by assets in the US. Considering the tight regulations and the inability of…
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