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Paribus. Trust Less.

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Time Stamp: May 3, 2023 4:36 AM - Modified On: May 3, 2023 - Published By:
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One month ago, Jerome Powell, head of the Federal Reserve in the US, announced that the banking system was sound and robust despite the collapse of several large banks. After raising rates a further 0.25%, he said, “We’re committed to learning the lessons from this episode and to work to prevent events like this from happening again.” As we prepare for another potential 0.25% rate hike on May 3rd, another major bank in the US, First Republic Bank, has collapsed. Its collapse is part of a larger trend of consolidation

Latest Cryptocurrency Price Forecast – BTC XRP XLM HBAR ADA

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Time Stamp: April 26, 2023 6:43 AM - Modified On: April 26, 2023 - Published By:
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2023-4-4 The past week has brought a relatively mixed bag to the market, with minor losses and gains witnessed across the top 100. However, some prevailed with significant gains, such as XRP and XLM, while others began to stagnate or shed value, including the likes of BTC. As of the 3rd of April, the cryptocurrency market cap stands at $1.17T, a one hundred million increase from the week prior, but a decrease of 1.38% across the past 24 hours. Bitcoin (BTC) Opening the week at $27.86k, Bitcoin was subject to

BREATHE! Convention Expands Event Experience with Date and Location Change to September 2023 at World Market Center Las Vegas

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Time Stamp: April 20, 2023 7:32 AM - Modified On: April 20, 2023 - Published By:
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For Immediate Release April 20, 2023 LAS VEGAS, NV - BREATHE! Convention, the premier event for emerging technology and digital transformation, has announced a date and location change for its upcoming convention. Originally scheduled for May 3-5, 2023, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the event now takes place from September 13-15, 2023 at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas. This change embodies the ongoing commitment of BREATHE! to connect ever-expanding possibilities and provide additional unique and custom sponsorship opportunities and empower attendees and participants to embrace the

Organized Chaos

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Time Stamp: November 5, 2022 11:01 AM - Modified On: November 5, 2022 - Published By:
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This week saw another round of interest rates hikes by central banks to try and control inflation. With all the talk of a potential pivot in monetary policy, interest rates continued their parabolic rise by 75 basis points in the UK, and the US. Initially the Federal Reserve’s announcement of a 0.75% interest rate increase caused markets to jump because this was the rise they’d been expecting and had already priced in. However, in the subsequent press conference the tone was more hawkish which caused the markets to drop a

Too Big to Fail?

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Time Stamp: October 7, 2022 2:22 AM - Modified On: October 7, 2022 - Published By:
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Several weeks ago we covered Credit Suisse in some of our articles about risk management and regulations. This week they’ve been in the news again for all the wrong reasons, which may have an impact on the crypto market. Once the darling of Wall Street, Credit Suisse is rapidly turning into its nemesis. Following several multi-million dollar fines, they’ve lurched from one scandal to another. In September 2021 the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority issued a statement saying, “The Financial Conduct Authority has fined Credit Suisse over £147 million for serious

A DeFi Drought Crisis

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Time Stamp: August 30, 2022 3:37 PM - Modified On: August 30, 2022 - Published By:
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Just when we thought it was safe to breathe a sigh of relief from all the crypto liquidity contagion, another one started to appear last week with BendDAO, an NFT borrowing, and lending platform. Due to structural faults in the way the protocol had been created there came a point when it was perched on the brink of insolvency. What we’ve witnessed over the past few months has been a clash between the overconfidence of some project founders and the realities of the emerging crypto market. It’s an unusual dynamic

Blockchain-Based App Wins UN Secretary-General’s Innovation & Sustainability Award

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Time Stamp: July 23, 2022 6:28 AM - Modified On: July 23, 2022 - Published By:
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July 23, 2022, New York - The UN Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) partnered with the UN International Computing Center (UNICC) to launch a Digital Certificate of Entitlement (DCE) app to modernize the tracking and eligibility of UN retirees. This app allows retirees to use their smartphone, tablet, or another personal device to submit an electronic certificate of eligibility instead of a paper-based submission. The DCE uses cutting-edge biometric/facial recognition, blockchain, and global positioning technologies to track the eligibility of retirees. The DCE project was piloted in 2020 with retirees

ING spins out Pyctor digital assets technology to GMEX Group

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Time Stamp: July 11, 2022 3:59 PM - Modified On: July 11, 2022 - Published By:
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Leading fintech provides regulatory compliant digital assets network & custody technologyStrengthens GMEX’s MultiHub platform, integrating traditional and decentralized finance London and Amsterdam, 11 July 2022 - ING announced today that it has spun out Pyctor to GMEX Group (‘GMEX’), a leader in digital business and technology solutions for exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure. Pyctor’s digital post-trade market infrastructure technology is designed for firms operating in regulated environments. It provides highly secure digital custody and transactional network services for a broad range of digital assets, as well as delivering interoperability between

Davos, Switzerland, 31st May 2022

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Time Stamp: June 1, 2022 9:59 AM - Modified On: June 1, 2022 - Published By:
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A week of powerful conversations, immersive activities, and headline performances featured The Summit At Lan Space as one of the most prominent events on the promenade, where some of the brightest minds around the globe were brought together during the annual Economic Meeting in Davos. Headline speakers like Deepak Chopra, Sian Proctor, Tessy De Nassau, Nik Gowing, Leonor Diaz Alcantara, and Helena Gualinga took center stage to advocate for audiences to keep collaboration, empathy, and empowerment at the forefront of their leadership in seismic times.Over five days, a platform was

Metaverse GigaSpace Forms Strategic Partnership with UCOLLEX

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Time Stamp: May 23, 2022 12:35 PM - Modified On: May 23, 2022 - Published By:
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The Animoca Brands backed NFT platform will join "Project Spaceport" to bring more brands & IPs to Web3 Metaverse HONG KONG, May 23, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Virtual space metaverse GigaSpace (https://www.gigaspace.io/), today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with UCOLLEX (https://ucollex.io/), an innovative NFT platform focused on art and pop culture collectibles. UCOLLEX will join "Project Spaceport", an initiative GigaSpace launched with MADworld (https://madworld.io/)previously, with the aim to bring in more intellectual properties and brands into the Web3 space. Project Spaceport Project Spaceport will be a cultural

Trends in Technology That Will Shape the Next Decade

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Time Stamp: May 10, 2022 1:35 PM - Modified On: May 10, 2022 - Published By:
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Technology, like money, is a driver of corporate growth, and companies are always redesigning and updating their processes to accommodate the latest advances. If you want to remain competitive, you must be infor med of what is coming next so that you can plan accordingly. In this piece, we'll take a look at some of the key issues that we anticipate will have a large impact on technology in the coming decade. From the Crypto world to IT Support, we’ll try to cover everything. Big Data and Augmented Analytics Big