Tag Archives: Finance

[ad_1] In this part of the most interesting APIs added to ProgammableWeb in the 2018 series, we cover the APIs in the financial sector. These include Banking, Shares, Insurances, Payments, Currency, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. The highlights of the FinTech sector include dozens of recently available Open Banking APIs, probably encouraged …

[ad_2][ad_1] Litecoin (LTC / USD) released a new annual minimum of $ 22.17 on December 14, 2018. At that point, the market was down more than 92% from last year's high of $ 304. While the market seems bearish, Litecoin could be in a point where the risk / return …

[ad_2][ad_1] The Indian government, for years considered anti-cryptic, is ready to give the go-ahead to embrace technology under strict regulation. Nearly one-fifth of global bitcoin transactions are believed to occur daily in India, with hundreds of thousands of users maintaining their investments undercover for fear of government repression. This time …

[ad_2][ad_1] Although you have many tools to protect your personal information, your data is probably as dangerous as it ever was. It is not that you do not take precautions (even if many Americans do not), it is that your personal information is stored in so many places – some …

[ad_2][ad_1] But can virtual currency recover in 2019 or dive into new lows? Several cryptocurrency specialists gave various forecasts of what they believe could happen at the price of BTC in 2019 and the broader impact it will have on cryptocurrency markets. Some experts remain optimistic in their perspective, while …

[ad_1] Source: iStock / asbe Cryptocurrency prices are falling, but most of the other Bitcoin business metrics and its main competitors suggest that cryptography is as alive as it has ever been. The active Bitcoin address is steadily increasing from a low of April, the number of verified cryptoasset users …

[ad_2][ad_1] Commercial finance should be the low-impact fruit, in which blockchain finds its easiest opportunity to prove itself a technology of transformation. A global and arcane system afflicted with paper, stamps and faxes is more difficult to disrupt than any other banking area. It is made to be shaken by …

[ad_1] The Dutch banking group ING is preparing for one year other blockchain-based initiatives in 2019 to expand commodity trading and finance programs in various sectors, including energy, crude oil, soybeans, metals and mines. ING, which since 2017 has been experimenting with digital ledger technology on its Easy Trading Connect …

[ad_2][ad_1] Since the blockchain hype went into overdrive at the start of this year, you might have thought you'd already heard about any cryptocurrency use. Well, you did not do it. Now AmbaCoin is used to finance the independence of a nation, the Republic of Ambazonia. Ambazonia? You could be …

[ad_2][ad_1] Asheesh Birla is senior vice president of Ripple's product. The following is an exclusive contribution for the 2018 year of CoinDesk under consideration. The full-fledged industries, from telecommunications companies to food stores, desperately try to preserve their most precious asset: the package. Conventional wisdom goes "if you control access …