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Finance & Economics

Dropbox Lays Off 500 Employees

Cloud storage giant Dropbox has joined technology companies that are implementing a workforce reduction policy, announcing the layoff of 16% of staff, which is equivalent to about 500 people.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Amazon Posts $3.2 Billion Profit

Amazon starts the year with a quarterly profit.

Science & Technology

Microsoft Xbox Chief Seeks to Reassure Game Staff on Activision

Microsoft Corp. Executives They tried to assure employees of the Xbox gaming division of the possibility of approving the planned purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc. for $ 69 billion, noting that success in games depends not only on the deal.

Finance & Economics

SNB Chief Wants Tougher Regulations After Credit Suisse Crisis

Thomas Jordan, President of the Swiss National Bank, is convinced that the crisis at Credit Suisse Group AG is evidence of the need to change the rules of regulation to apply the norm on the obligation of financial institutions to have a sufficient amount of available assets at any time.

Finance & Economics

JPMorgan Creates AI Model to Analyze Fed Speeches

A week before the Federal Reserve meeting, JPMorgan Chase & Co. presented an artificial intelligence model based on ChatGPT, the purpose of which is to decipher an in-depth analysis of central bank messages and identify potential signals for the trading sector.

Society & Lifestyle

UK Takes Aim at Problem Gambling With Regulation Updates

At the time of the last revision of the regulations on gambling-related activities, by the British authorities, was not yet an iPhone, which in a certain sense became a symbol of a new technological era that introduced new attributes, opportunities, and realities into space of human life.

Blockchain & Crypto

EU Parliament Approves Transfer of Funds Crypto Regulation

The Transfer of Funds regulation presupposes applying the same tracing requirements to crypto asset transfers as EU regulators demand from traditional money transfer providers The EU Parliament has voted to approve a new set of rules that allows the tracing of crypto-asset transfers, including bitcoin and electronic money tokens. The Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR) means that […]

Fintech & Ecommerce

Pyypl Rolls Out Social Micro-Investment Platform for African SMEs

Pyypl micro-investment platform aims to build a social ecosystem for entrepreneurs across Africa and improve access to digital financial services for informal employment sectors UAE-based fintech Pyypl has introduced a new micro-financing platform catering to the needs of African self-employed people, micro, small and middle-sized businesses. Having raised $20m to expand financial inclusion in the […]

Fintech & Ecommerce

Mobile Money Grows Faster Than Expected: Report

The number of registered mobile money accounts globally rose by 13% in 2022, while total mobile money transaction values grew to $1.26 trillion

Fintech & Ecommerce

Armenian Ardshinbank Enables Merchants to Accept Payments on Android Devices

DigiPOS solution from Ardshinbank supports payments via contactless credit and debit cards as well as mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay

Fintech & Ecommerce

Amazon Pay Rolls Out Citi Flex Pay to Give Credit Card Users Instalment Option

Citi credit card holders have been able to make payments in installments using Amazon Pay when placing an order on thousands of online store sites.

Science & Technology

AI Startup Pinecone Raises $100 Million

The startup Pinecone Systems Inc., which specializes in supporting software for artificial intelligence, announced the attraction of investment funds for $ 100 million following the results of the financing round.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Korean Fintech Kakao Pay to Acquire Majority Stake in US Brokerage Firm Siebert

Kakao Pay, the online payment service of the South Korean messenger and Internet giant Kakao, announced the acquisition of a stake in Siebert Financial, a brokerage firm based in New York.

Society & Lifestyle

Amazon Closes Halo Health Division

Amazon has sent out notices to Halo Health customers that this division of the company is ceasing operations on July 31 of this year.

Finance & Economics

Citizens Financial CEO Says Regional Banks Can Compete

Bruce Van Son, CEO of Citizens Financial Group, speaking on the Bloomberg Baystate Business Hour podcast, said that regional banks have the potential to fully compete with larger representatives of industry.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Celerant and Sezzle Partner to Help Retailers Offer BNPL

Celerant Technology has partnered with Sezzle to enable retailers to offer customers Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services.