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March 06, 2013
BitPay Integrates Service With Fulfillment-by-Amazon

Bitcoin payment processor BitPay has announced that it has integrated its service with Amazon’s Fulfillment-by-Amazon (FBA) web service. Fulfillment-by-Amazon allows a seller with inventory in Amazon’s warehouses to sell the...

March 04, 2013
BitPay Successful In New Round Of Funding

BitPay has announced a new round of funding from a group of angel investors, including Trace Mayer, Ben Davenport, and A-Grade Investments, a venture capital firm. Businesses in the bitcoin...

March 03, 2013
Lloyds Boss To Get Bonus Despite Bank’s £570m Loss

Last Wednesday Bitcoin was trading at $32, a record high for the virtual currency. The rise was fuelled by the announcement that Mt. Gox – the largest bitcoin exchange –...

March 03, 2013
Bitcoin Prices Hit All-Time High

Last Wednesday Bitcoin was trading at $32, a record high for the virtual currency. The rise was fuelled by the announcement that Mt. Gox – the largest bitcoin exchange –...

February 28, 2013
Bitcoinstore Serves Electronic Goods To Virtual Currency Fans

Bitcoinstore is an online shop for electronic goods. The sole difference with traditional online retailers is that they only accept one payment method: bitoins. The store has just gone live...

February 22, 2013
Internet Archive Accepts Bitcoin Donations For Employee Pay

The Internet Archive has announced that it will begin accepting Bitcoin donations in order to help pay their employees. The company claims that some of its employees have asked to...

February 17, 2013
How Owning Bitcoin Is Owning An ETF On The Whole...

By Tony Gallippi, co-founder and CEO of BitPay, Inc. The Bitcoin economy is grassroots, techie, voluntarist, young, and fragmented. Investors looking to invest in the space are finding a lack...

February 17, 2013
Reddit Begins Accepting Bitcoins As Gold Payment Option

Reddit has begun accepting Bitcoin and credit card purchases for its Reddit Gold points, the company announced in a blog post. The company said it will use Coinbase to process...

February 10, 2013
Coinbase Sells $1 Million Bitcoins In Past Month

Coinbase, an online platform for buying and selling bitcoins, has announced that its users have bought and sold more than $1 million in worth of the currency in the past...

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AML/KYC
How Gemini Balances User Privacy With AML And KYC Compliance Cryptocurrencies’ anonymous nature makes them popular, but crypto exchange platforms are still required to collect buyers’ personal data for AML and KYC compliance. In the “AML/KYC Tracker,” a PYMNTS and Trulioo collaboration, Elena Hughes, chief compliance officer at Gemini, explains how platforms can selectively collect data to ensure user privacy and adhere to regulations.  
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The Corporate Treasury Shift: Asset Allocation And The New Cryptocurrency Option
More Banks Turn to Crypto, Blockchain to Help Corporates Drive Global Growth Fifty-eight percent of multinationals that do business in six or more countries use cryptocurrencies in their day-to-day operations. A new PYMNTS study of 250 multinational financial institutions (FIs), sponsored by Circle, examines how their corporate customers are using blockchain and crypto to manage liquidity, make payments and drive global growth — and the digital currency imperative it implies for FIs that wish to retain those corporate relationships.