Tuesday afternoon Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced on Twitter an agreement to buy FTX.com, the non-U.S. section of FTX.
The Bitcoin Cash (BCC) blockchain has successfully split away from the legacy chain; the block was mined by the China-based mining pool Viabtc at 2:14 pm EDT; the first Bitcoin Cash block was 1.9 MB in size, holding 6,985 transactions - much larger than BTC's 1MB limit and approximately 3,000 transaction throughput. Source
The firm is calling it the Plaid Portal and not explicitly tying the launch with a privacy settlement the firm reached on Friday, but the timing is close enough to call.
Findings from AI-powered tax-filing product april’s 2023 customer impact study suggest customers are receptive to a self-guided, mobile-first process.
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Digital Identity is an aspect of CBDC design causing much debate. For some, it is the end of freedom, "unnecessarily alarmist" others respond.
[Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Dmytro Spilka. He is a tech and finance writer based in London....
Cognito CEO Alain Meier said the soaring demand for such checks results from more people moving more aspects of their financial lives online.
The company is called Majority and aims to support immigrants who lack credit history; they are planning to launch in...
Green Finance US investors brace for upcoming climate risk regulations US regulators are dialing down on climate change risks and their effects on the economy, aiming to improve financial disclosure requirements on how institutions manage their climate risk exposures internally.