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StoneX | January 20, 2022

StoneX Group Inc. announces to launch its new digital payments initiative from its Global Payments Division. The initiative aims to expand a broad range of payments solutions to global corporate and institutional clients. StoneX Payments solutions specialize in transferring funds to the developing world. It offers competitive and transparent pricing and guaranteed and secure delivery in approximately 140 currencies across 180 countries. StoneX is currently leading in global cross-...

JPMorgan | January 14, 2020

JPMorgan Chase's (NYSE:JPM) earnings blew past expectations in the final quarter of 2019, rising 30% from a year earlier to $2.57 a share, a full 10% above consensus forecasts. Revenue likewise far exceeded expectations, rising 9% on the year to $29.21 billion. Analysts polled by Investing.com had anticipated EPS of $2.35 on revenue of $27.87 billion. The results were helped by an 8% increase in consumer loans, reflecting the sustained strength of U.S. spending. “The U.S. consumer cont...

Fidelity | August 27, 2020

Fidelity Investments is launching its first Bitcoin fund, adding its establishment name and star power to the fledgling and often controversial asset class. The Boston-based money manager said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will begin to offer the Wise Origin Bitcoin Index Fund I through a new business unit called Fidelity Digital Funds. Peter Jubber, head of Fidelity Consulting, will run the new business unit, the filing shows. The passively-managed, Bitcoin-only ...

Reuters | January 21, 2020

Major central banks are looking at the case for issuing their own digital currencies, the Bank of England and European Central Bank said on Tuesday, amid a growing debate over the future of money and who controls it. The central banks of Britain, the euro zone, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland will share experiences in a new group headed by former European Central Bank official Benoit Coeure and assisted by the Bank of International Settlements, they said. “The group will assess ... economic,...