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January 05, 2015
Bitcoin’s New Year Price Plunge

Bitcoin prices took a nosedive this weekend falling a whopping 17.2 percent, in just 72 hours, from 311.05 on Friday to $257.61 on Sunday. That completes a rocky year of...

January 05, 2015
Lizard Squad Launches Hacker Subscription Service

For just $6 a month, you, too, can be a hacker. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

January 02, 2015
Apple Pay’s Impact On Payments

Steve Jobs reportedly once told Apple’s Mac development team, “It’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.” When George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount...

January 02, 2015
Was 2014 The Death March For Bitcoin?

Bitcoin Tracker | Week 54           Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

January 02, 2015
Big Apple Looks At Apple Pay For Parking Tickets

New York City’s finance department is looking for better ways for residents to pay the up to 10 million parking tickets issued there every year — and that may include...

January 02, 2015
One Word For Bitcoin 2014: Unpredictable

Bitcoin’s plunge in value during 2014 may have been worse than the Russian ruble, and its detractors have branded it as the year’s worst investment, but only some of them...

December 31, 2014
PYMNTS Greatest Hits

I wrote about 260,000 words over the last year summarizing my take on the many developments taking place in payments and commerce. All of those words were intended to be...

December 31, 2014
Bitcoin Isn’t As Anonymous As You Thought

Security researchers may have broken Bitcoin’s ability to let users make anonymous transactions with the cryptocurrency, according to Bank Info Security. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

December 30, 2014
2014: The Tipping Point For Mobile Point-Of-Sale

2014 may have been the year that moved mobile point-of-sale from planning to action for businesses of all sizes across the globe. Deployments of mPOS began to take off and...

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AML/KYC - June 2021
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 - January 2022
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.