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JP Morgan | May 14, 2020

JP Morgan is reportedly serving bitcoin exchanges – Coinbase and Gemini – as banking clients, according to Wall Street Journal sources. It’s the first time the US banking giant has taken on crypto clients. The exchanges were approved in April as customers under the bank’s corporate and investment division, and are now starting to process transactions through the bank, per the report. Traditionally fenced out by banks as clients too risky to take on – B...

FINTECH

iBanFirst | July 01, 2021

In order to become the European leader in B2B cross-border payments, iBanFirst is expanding its services with the implementation of additional open-banking features. The iBanFirst Open Banking Barometer assesses open banking coverage for SMEs across Europe. This tool will give a country-by-country effective measurement of account aggregation and payment initiation availability. “While the historical banks' lack of enthusiasm made it difficult to develop effective open-ba...

Watchdog Capital | July 23, 2020

Watchdog Capital announces a new securities offering platform. Watchdog Capital is focused on the intersection of digital securities and traditional assets. The firm recognizes the potential of distributed ledger technologies, Bitcoin, and related blockchain applications to modernize and improve the global securities market. Watchdog Capital is a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission registered broker-dealer and a member of FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc). The aim o...

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Bookkeeper360, Intuit QuickBooks | May 31, 2021

The ability to handle a company's accounting and back-office in a straightforward, headache-free manner can free up a lot of time and energy for a small and medium-sized business. Bookeeper360, which has had five-star ratings for over a decade, certainly fits the description. The firm recently announced that the Bookkeeper360 App now connects with QuickBooks Online (QBO), increasing its possibilities to millions of small companies who use QBO to handle their accounts. Bookkeep...