Early stage investor and incubator supports new digital approach to business insurance and protection against digital threats June 2017: Earlymarket LLP, an incubator and investor in early stage companies, has announced its investment in Digital Risks, a new digital-first insurance provider for technology and media businesses. The family office was impressed …
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Whether or not you think that the future lies in financial technologies, it is hard not to be impressed by the sector’s astronomic growth. Rarely have we seen an industry expanding at the rate ‘FinTech’ did in 2016 when it attracted over $17.4 billion in investment. For the first time …
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Billon Financial, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) based payment provider is a FCA registered small e-money firm. Underlying technology from Billon Group provides solutions for everyday currencies, eliminating the costly mining and 3rd party exchanges associated with cryptocurrenciesInitial use case replaces incentives paid with anonymous pre-paid cards with an instant, …
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Bitcoin has flexed some strength and perseverance over the last couple of years. But in 2017 it’s hitting highs that not very many people would have anticipated. When the cryptocurrency hit a record high back in May, one investor predicted it could reach a $4,000 value in a year or …
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Huge Thing is Warsaw-based acceleration program, focused on seed stage projects with international ambitions. Program was inaugurated in 2012 by SpeedUp Venture Capital Group. To date, 41 teams altogether have attended editions of the program. Their participants have worked under the supervision of mentors from companies and organizations such as …
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Leading experts from over 20 countries will gather in Odessa (Ukraine) over July 5-6th An international conference for professionals working with Blockchain and Crypto – rejoicing in the name of the Blockchain Incredible Party (BIP 001) – returns to Ukraine this year for a fifth time. The main aim of …
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Exscudo has raised over 2300 BTC during the ICO. 3500 people have participated in the crowdsale. The ICO took place from April 25th to May 31st. Most of the funds were raised during the first and last days of the ICO, with 1000 investors and over 400 BTC coming into …
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The world is in serious need of solutions to create sustainable growth and jobs. The World Circular Economy Forum 2017 is bringing 1,500 specialists from around the world to Finland to show how this can be done. The groundbreaking event will focus on the world’s best circular economy solutions in …
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Imagine a map showing you how to get from 10 Finsbury Square, Moorgate, London, to a particular road, somewhere in the middle of China, in order for you to deliver £100 to a particular branch of a Chinese bank. That would be a pretty complicated map, involving multiple regions, languages, …
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Recently there has been a lot column space devoted to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requirements and the potential penalties of non compliance. GDPR is the biggest change to EU privacy law for over 20 years and all member states and affected entities must be ready by the 25th …
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