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Silvergate Bank CEO Alan Lane, former HSBC executive Stuart Levey and experts at Anchorage Bank are helping Facebook make its digital currency more palatable to regulators and potential bank partners.

Pine Labs has raised $285 million in its latest funding round, including participation from Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek, to continue its geographic and product expansion.

The most sophisticated cyberattacks can begin with something as simple as a text message.

ISO 20022 prioritizes speed and security, creating a runway for major new innovations like machine learning, says NICE Actimize's John Buzzard.

Government digital currency projects have the potential to displace banks and fintechs from the payment process. But three major participants — Accenture, Ant Group and Swift — argue that incumbents have a role to play.

The fintech already sells loans on its distributed-ledger-based trading platform but needed the Securities and Exchange Commission's blessing to bundle its mortgage and student loans into securities and sell them to investors.

The San Francisco-based technology provider raised $70 million in a Series C round this week, bringing its total funding to $114 million.

The risk is growing that criminals or hostile nations could use quantum computing to hack into the ledger systems that control bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Both vendors use remote hosting and web delivery to support e-commerce, APIs and other technologies that go beyond their traditional focus on the ATM and point of sale.

The visibility of automated transactions provides a clear view of the flow of transactions, says Hummingbird's Joe Robinson.