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December, 2020

  • 1 December

    Unicorn Momentum—Like Much Else—Slows in 2020 for Payments Firms And Other Fintechs

    Most Americans will be glad to see the last of 2020 as they ring in 2021 in a few weeks, and that group will include private investors. In a year in which the coronavirus ran rampant, damaging many businesses and shuttering others, tech investors pegged significantly fewer privately held payments …

  • 1 December

    Libra Changes its Name to Diem and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/1/20

    The Libra Association, the organization behind the Libra cryptocurrency project, said it is renaming itself Diem, Latin for “day.” Acknowledging pressure from governments and regulators worldwide, the association this spring changed course on several key strategies, setting out new plans for single-currency stablecoins and a stronger compliance regime.Commerce platform Shopify Inc. said its merchants had …

November, 2020

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