Tagged: financial transactions

January 17, 2022 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The term “gray market” might conjure up images of “nefarious” actors exchanging cash in “shadowy alleys,” the team at American Fintech Ripple writes in a blog post. In reality, however, gray markets have become an “unfortunate necessity” for those entities that may lack the financial… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ABN Amro (AMS:ABN), a Dutch bank with headquarters in Amsterdam, and Rabobank, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services group, are reportedly working with research platform TNO in order to test technology that allows banking institutions to share data that’s used for identifying financial crime… Read More

February 23, 2021 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated on Monday (February 22, 2021) that Bitcoin is an “extremely inefficient” way to settle financial transactions. Yellen commented on how the digital currency’s price fell sharply (as usual) during morning trading hours, but then stayed above the $53,000 mark… Read More

September 27, 2020 @ 1:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global banking sector has faced many challenges due to the socioeconomic problems resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak. Many banks or financial institutions have had to shut down physical branches while asking their employees to work remotely in order to prevent the further spread of… Read More