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July 26, 2021 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin is once again surging after tumbling below $30,000 last week. Today, Bitcoin is bouncing around $40,000 – a pretty dramatic shift in price. At the beginning of 2021, Bitcoin traded at just shy of $30,000 so last week BTC retraced all of the years’… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 7:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon Payment Services, a payment processing service for the MENA region, has introduced the Amazon Fintech Lab in the DIFC Innovation Hub. The project is reportedly the latest in Amazon Payment Services’ efforts to provide support to the Fintech ecosystem in the MENA region. The… Read More

February 13, 2021 @ 7:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The World Wide Public Sector (at Amazon) team is reportedly looking to recruit an experienced Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) – Digital Currency to serve as the technology “enabler” for “innovating” their customer solutions in support of their goal of promoting economic development and inclusion,… Read More

September 30, 2020 @ 7:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has introduced special technology that allows customers to pay for products at physical store locations by simply scanning the palm of their hands. Amazon has been quite active when it comes to offering certain services at brick-and-mortar stores. The e-commerce… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

American Express (NYSE:AXP) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) have partnered on a new card that is designed for small businesses. The card is said to “offer rich rewards and access to flexible payment terms to help them better manage their finances.” The two cards available are the… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 11:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has launched a new “Alexa, Pay For Gas” feature, which allows Amazon customers to purchase gas by using the Alexa app on their smartphones or Alexa-enable device in their car. The service is now available at Exxon and Mobil stations nationwide. “No need… Read More

August 17, 2020 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance reveals that if you had invested $1,000 on Jan 1,  2020, in both Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock and Bitcoin (BTC), you would have earned significantly more from your Amazon holdings, when compared to the price appreciation of the leading digital currency. However,… Read More

June 11, 2020 @ 11:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Marcus, the digital-only bank created by Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), is extending its reach further in a new partnership with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). According to CNBC, Amazon merchants, independent sellers using the Amazon marketplace, will be invited to access credit provided by Marcus with rates ranging from… Read More

April 17, 2020 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

This is interesting because it is indicative of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally approved Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) investment in Deliveroo. Before the Coronavirus, the investment was not a given as the CMA was “concerned that… Read More

February 28, 2020 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon Web Services’ Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) teamed up with Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP), in order to allow users to integrate smart contracts on its platform. BTP’s developers introduced general availability for its DAML incorporation, which may be  accessed via its Sextant for DAML platform…. Read More

January 15, 2020 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon Pay in India has received a capital injection of INR 13.5 billion (appr. $19.3 million) from its Singapore and Mauritius-headquartered parent entities, according to a filing with the registrar of companies (RoC). As noted in the financial documents available on business intelligence and information… Read More

January 13, 2020 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA, a major Spanish multinational banking group, is considering the possibility of providing various banking-related products via Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). The financial industry has seen a large number of new solutions being introduced during the past few years and there has been a sharp increase in… Read More

December 8, 2019 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a private US-based corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization, has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) (NASDAQ:AMZN) as its cloud service provider for market surveillance data. AWS’s cloud services will be used by FINRA’s consolidated audit trading (CAT) subsidiary…. Read More

June 11, 2019 @ 2:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly teamed up with Synchrony Financial to launch its new credit card. According to CNBC, the program, Amazon Credit Builder, lends to shoppers with no credit history or bad credit, who would otherwise be exempt from Amazon’s loyalty cards. Tom Quindlen,… Read More

June 8, 2017 @ 9:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today that it had originated over $3 billion in loans to more than 20,000 small businesses since 2011. One billion of those loans came in the past 12 months. Peyush Nahar, VP for Amazon Marketplace, released a statement on the milestone; “We… Read More