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Cryptoverse: Buying the dip? Bitcoin’s a rates rookie
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5 Trends Currently Booming in Fintech Space
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Six ways to ensure you aren’t paying too much tax
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The Big Issue fast-tracks financial inclusion as 1,000 sellers now accept cashless payments
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Privacy Issues In Decentralized Finance and How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Can Help
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BoE’s Saunders worries inflation will be higher than forecasts
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Swiss press freedom dealt blow in bid for overhaul of bank secrecy rules
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Stocks tumble on inflation fears, Treasury yields jump
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BoE flags risk of recession and 10% inflation as it raises rates again
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UTP, Faster Processing, and phos become industry pioneers by being the first to introduce same day processing for payments accepted on a smartphone
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Fintech Cheq announces $2 million raise to bring crypto payments to the masses and launches from stealth
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SeedLegals hits £1bn in startup funding
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Dollar slips before expected Fed rate hike
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Just Eat Takeaway faces shareholder backlash over dealmaking
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This year’s Footprint Fund judging panel welcomes insight and expertise from the 2021 Grand Prix winners.
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European Payments Initiative Size-Down: Reasons Behind Half Member Banks’ Opt-Out and New Strategic Goals
Initially backed by 31 major Eurozone banks, the EPI has abandoned its agenda of creating a pan-European payments scheme, rivaling glo..
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Symmetrical.ai raises $18.5M Series A investment to change the future of global payroll
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Penfold’s workplace pension launches to 100 UK businesses
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Dollar on track for best month since 2015
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Nordiska extends partnership with Mambu
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Analysis-Banks lag bond yield surge as recession worries trump cheap valuations
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Dollar hits 20-yr high as yen tumbles on dovish Bank of Japan
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Closer U.S. ties would ‘reboot’ UK finance after Brexit, says report
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Analysis-Euro peers over the cliff at dollar parity as recession looms
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BoE set to walk the line between inflation and recession
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Economic growth risks jolt inflation-obsessed markets
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Volume raises $2.4M to drive online payment fees to zero
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Britain says EU will struggle to shift euro clearing from London
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Be simple in bank capital, Bank of England tells global regulators
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ICON Corporate Finance hires Mobility specialist Sumeet Pillai
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What’s next for Open Banking? Laser focus on Local Initiatives Fuels New Solutions and Wider Adoption
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Stocks, commodities prices tumble on hawkish Fed, China worries
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U.S. dollar climbs to two-year peak as risk appetite tumbles; yuan drops
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U.S. dollar rallies to more than 2-year hike on steep Fed rate hike outlook
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