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The Merge: Blockchain Sheds Its Toxic Reputation
Date: October 10, 2022
By Gilbert Verdian, CEO Quant Network Many businesses that would benefit from the blockchain have been avoiding it. Its carbon footprint, expense, and links to volatile cryptocurrencies contributed to blockchain harbouring a toxic reputation that it couldn’t shake, and businesses wouldn’t touch. That was until ‘the Merge’. This – now widely used – term references the restructure of the...
The Future of Finance: What Is Waiting for Us?
Date: October 10, 2022
By Lyle Solomon is a CalBar registered consumer finance attorney currently working as the principal attorney at Oak View Law Group. The need for CFOs and accounting teams to be more inventive and strategic is growing. Since there are now technologies that make it unnecessary to do financial chores manually, senior executives don’t want to waste...
Top Diamond Producer De Beers Names Equinor’s Cook as New CEO
Date: October 10, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) -Anglo American’s De Beers has appointed oil and energy industry executive Al Cook as its new chief to replace Bruce Cleaver, who steps down after eight years at the helm of the world’s top diamond producer. Cook joins at the start of 2023 from Norway’s Equinor, Europe’s top gas supplier, where he held...
Why Collaboration Is Crucial to Innovation Success Within Payments
Date: October 7, 2022
By Pascal Mauzé, Executive VP, Group Head of Communication, Marketing & Sales Performance at Worldline The payments industry continues to thrive amidst a rapidly changing economic landscape, driven by transformation that continues to experience enhanced levels of digitisation, the streamlining of contactless payments and the development of omnichannel capabilities. Whilst major payment solutions providers –...
Start-Up Etioca Eyes Nasdaq Listing Next Year as It Unveils Electric Taxi
Date: September 30, 2022
MILAN (Reuters) – Shared mobility start-up Etioca aims to list on the stock market in the United States in spring, its co-CEO said on Thursday as it unveiled a prototype of its fully-electric seven-seater plus driver taxi in Milan. Founded and led by Israeli engineer Mark Ishakov and headquartered in Gibraltar, Etioca will not sell...
APIs Are What Powers FinTech Not Blockchain
Date: September 26, 2022
By Stoyan Kenderov, COO, Plastiq Blockchain has been all the rage the last couple of years in the world of fintech. Proponents tout its superiority for myriad use cases—payments, lending, trade finance, foreign exchange transaction settlement, fractional real estate investment and more. But should one go all in on blockchain-based financial services as the new...