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Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High on Christmas Day; SEC Sues Ripple & Two Execs for Selling XRP in $1.3B Illegal Security Offering; MicroStrategy Buys Another 29,6K of Bitcoin

FIS & Global Payments $70B Merger Fell Apart; Goldman Sachs is Finalizing Robo-Advisor for The Masses; Brazilian FinTech Creditas Nets $255M

It's Been Two Massive Weeks for Bitcoin. What's Next?

Bitcoin Price Goes Through $20,000; Bitcoin Beat the Stock Market for 8 of the Past 10 Years; Coinbase Files for IPO; SBI Financial Acquires B2C2l

Australian Neobank Xinja Goes Bust; WhatsApp Officially Launches Payments Service in India; SEC Charges Robinhood with Misleading Customers about How it Makes Money

DBS Bank’s Digital Exchange to Start Trading Crypto Next Week; MicroStrategy Plans to Raise $400M to Buy More Bitcoin; Ray Dalio Softens Stance on Bitcoin

Robinhood in Talks with Goldman Sachs for Possible 2021 IPO; Revolut Broke Even Last Month and is on the Path to Profitability; Sweden’s Tink Raises $103M to Boost Open Banking

Square Did $1.63B in Bitcoin Sales via Cash App in Q3; Crypto Lender Cred Files for Bankruptcy; Citibank Analyst Says Bitcoin Could Pass $300K by December 2021

Ant, the Biggest IPO Ever, Gets Squashed Last-minute; Google Goes Against Venmo & the Likes, Turning Pay Into a Super Money App; Stripe Eyes Funding Round That Could Put Valuation At $100B

Bitcoin’s Price Breaks All-Time High; Bitcoin Exchange Backed by Pomp, Song & Woo Removes Trading Fees to Battle Coinbase & Gemini; BlockFi's New Credit Card Lets Users Earn Back BTC

S&P Global Acquires IHS Markit to Create Market Data Powerhouse; Stripe is Going After All Things FinTech; Affirm Expands Canadian Presence With $264M PayBright Buy

PayPal CEO Is Bullish on Bitcoin as a Currency; XRP Surges to 2-Year High; Facebook's Libra to Launch in January 2021

Stripe in Talks for Funding at $70-100B Valuation; JP Morgan to Launch Digital Bank in UK; Toast Soars to $8B Valuation 7 Months After Cutting Half its Staff

Bitcoin Could Pass $300K by December 2021 according to Citibank; Investors See Polkadot as the Next Ethereum; Limited Supply Is Driving Up the Price of Bitcoin

Google Goes Againts Venmo & the Likes, Turning Pay Into a Super Money App; African FinTech Chipper Cash Raises $30M Backed by Jeff Bezos; Starling Becomes the First Challenger Bank to Hit Profit

Square Adds 4,709 Bitcoin to its Balance Sheet; PayPal to Potentially Buy Crypto Custodian BitGo; DBS Bank to Launch a Digital Asset Exchange

PayPal to Allow Customers to Buy, Hold, & Sell Crypto; Stripe Acquires Nigeria's Paystack; Starling Bank On Track to Turn a Profit by the End of 2020

Family Offices May See Bitcoin as Alternative to Gold; World’s Second-Biggest Bank to Issue $3B in Bonds Tradable for BTC; Crypto Lender Cred Files for Bankruptcy 

Google App Lets Creditors Lock Financed Phones; Figure Technologies Applies for a National Bank Charter; Facebook’s Libra Eyes A New, Faster Payments System

SEC Makes It Easier for Crypto Startups to Raise Funds; October was a Massive Month for Bitcoin Options; Square Did $1.63B in Bitcoin Sales via Cash App in Q3

Ant, the Biggest IPO Ever, Gets Squashed Last-minute; HSBC to Launch Transferwise Rival; WhatsApp to Go Live with Payments Service in India

JPMorgan’s ‘JPM Coin’ Is Live; DBS Bank to Launch a Digital Asset Exchange; Swiss Central Bank & BIS Plan to Test Digital Currency by the End of 2020

Starling Bank On Track to Turn a Profit by the End of 2020; SoFi Wins Preliminary Approval for US Bank Charter & Launches Credit Card; Jiko Raises $40M to Build T-Bills-Based Retail Bank

Welcome to the Google Bank - Your Everyday Banking from Google, NOT a Bank

PayPal Jumps on Crypto Bandwagon; Japanese Giant Line Developing CBDC Platform; JPMorgan Turns Bullish on Bitcoin

PayPal to Allow Customers to Buy, Hold, & Sell Crypto; JPMorgan Takes On Square & PayPal at the mPOS Arena; Possible Finance Raises $11M Over Zoom Calls

DCG Acquires Luno; MicroStrategy Makes Bitcoin Its Primary Reserve Currency; African Crypto Adoption is Booming Like Crazy

PayPal Wants to Catch Klarna - Launches Pay in 4; Chime Adds $485M at a $14.5B Valuation; Amazon Debuts Hand-Scan Payments

Bitcoin Volatility is Worth the Risk, According to Fidelity; Russia Further Explores Digital Ruble; IBM & Maersk Add 2 Heavyweights to TradeLens

Stripe Acquires Paystack; India's Razorpay Nets $100M & Joins Unicorn Club; Yandex Drops $5.5B Tinkoff Takeover

Thai Central Bank Issues $1.6B in Government Bonds on IBM Blockchain; Square Added 4,709 Bitcoin to its Balance Sheet; Google Cloud Joins EOS Blockchain Community

Venmo Launches its First Credit Card with Up to 3% Cash Back and Personalized Rewards; Macy's Invests in Klarna; Mastercard Invests in Marqeta

Swipe Launches VISA DeFi Lending Card; Institutional Crypto Platform Wootrade Raises $10M; Diginex Goes Public on Nasdaq Following Special-purpose Acquisition

Thiel Leads $52M Round in BitPanda; Amazon Debuts Hand-Scan Payments; Square Launches QR Codes

PayPal Covers Fiat-Crypto Gap for bitFlyer Europe Users; Canada’s First Regulated Crypto Exchange Goes Live; Booming African Crypto Adoption Drives Concerns Over Regulation

Chime Adds $485M at a $14.5B Valuation, Claims EBITDA Profitability; Russia's Yandex Agrees $5.5B Tinkoff Acquisition; Greenlight Raises $215M for Kids' Debit Card

Apple to Turn iPhones into Payment Terminals; Google Goes Further into Banking; Facebook Forms a Financial Unit

Apple Forces Coinbase to Change its Crypto Products; Binance is Sued for Lax KYC; Wirex Launches Multi-currency Crypto Card

Monedo Files For for Bankruptcy; Klarna Hits $10.65B Valuation; Affirm Raises $500M; Razer, Gaming Hardware Maker, Aims to Build a Bank

3 Nations to Replace their Currency with CBDC by 2030; Digital Currency Group Acquires Luno; Ziglu Launches P2P Payments in UK

Klarna Eyes $10B Valuation on $500M Fresh Fundraise; Melio Raises $144M; Thunes Nets $60M

Sygnum Gets Approval for Digital Asset Trading; ‘Crypto Valley’ Now Accepts Taxes in Bitcoin; Bank of England Governor Dismissed Bitcoin as a Means of Payment

PayPal Introduces Interest-Free Buy-Now-Pay-Later Product; Monzo Adds New Fees in Attempt to Cut Costs; Brazil's Neon Pagmentos Nets $300M

Starbucks is Bringing their Beans on a Blockchain; FTX Acquires Blockfolio for $150M; Radix to Bring DeFi Into Mainstream

Tandem Acquires Allium; Standard Bank Buys 35% Stake in TradeSafe; JPMorgan Chase to Enter UK Digital Banking Space

IOTA’s Upgrades Network Speeds by 50X; Morgan Creek Leads $50M Investment in BlockFi; UK Grants Licenses to Archax & Gemini

Robinhood Nets $200M at $11.2B Valuation; AmEx Buys Kabbage; Ant Group Plans Consumer Finance Firm

Bitcoin Hits $12K Followed by World’s Biggest Business Intelligence Firm Buying $250M worth of BTC; Ripple Aims to Become the Amazon of Crypto 

Facebook Forms a New Financial Unit; Revolut Losses Triple Despite Rising Revenues; AmEx in Talks to Acquire Kabbage

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