Amid Bitcoin growth after quite a long-term downward trending, fintech startups livened up offering their solutions to the crypto industry. Here are the top 3 definitely worth monitoring in 2018.
Ant Financial will use this funding to expand its operations globally as well as towards developing emerging new technologies like blockchain.
Thanks to Basepay ambitious plans, cryptocurrency payments will soon become available to a great number of people all over the world.
Revolut allows its users to spend, store, send, and receive payments from both – cryptocurrency accounts and bank accounts.
Cryptocurrencies are no longer a passing fad – blockchain is changing the standards of the financial systems. Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple have initially stimulated the development of numerous start-ups, but today they experience the increasing interest on the part of traditional financial institutions.
The Payment Request API introduced in Apple is interconnected with Ripple’s Interledger Protocol that allows easy payments across multiple ledgers.
The PBoC also said that it will allow for a level playing field for the foreign players to compete with the local players in the highly saturated payments market of China.
CoinMetro, a decentralized financial service provider designed to facilitate compliance of Blockchain-based setups with country-specific regulatory requirements, raises over 11.5 Million EUR from its TGE.
Thanks to the obtained U.K. e-money license San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase now can operate in the EU countries.
Square, digital payments company, continues buying and selling Bitcoin. Experts believe that one day the firm could launch a cryptocurrency exchange.
The fund will also make indirect investments through Venture Capital funds whose priorities in technologies like the Blockchain.
Cryptocurrency trading platforms now have a serious competitor: Robinhood Crypto offers services to its users absolutely free of charge.
Having ambitious plans to replace PayPal, Lydia has already become a mobile payment leader in France and is not going to stop.
Singapore proves to be one of the most important Asia-based fintech hubs – and the role of the government in this success can hardly be overestimated.
Square’s Cash App will incorporate Bitcoin trading facility at zero commission charges.