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Ferhan Patel: Innovating the Future of Digital Marketing

In the dynamic world of digital marketing, Ferhan Patel emerges as a trailblazing entrepreneur and visionary leader, pioneering innovative strategies to drive business growth and brand engagement. As the CEO of Wizards of Social, a boutique Marketing Consultancy based in Canada, Ferhan is at the forefront of shaping the future of digital marketing with his unparalleled expertise and…

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Great Fintech Marketing Tips You Can Use Right Away

Great Fintech Marketing Tips You Can Use Right Away

Setting up your own business is a consistent and overwhelming task. Setting up a fintech organization from scratch, one intended to digitally disrupt the financial business can appear to be unimaginable but entrepreneurs like Ferhan Patel have made this thing possible. To develop your business, you’ll need a fintech marketing technique and an imaginative and inventive one at that. The following…

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Chinese police seized crypto assets worth $4.2B today from PlusToken Ponzi

Chinese police seized crypto assets worth $4.2B today from PlusToken Ponzi

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-police-seized-crypto-assets-worth-4-2b-today-from-plustoken-ponzi

PlusToken controversy, which has led to the arrest of 109 individuals so far, has also reportedly resulted in a titanic seizure of crypto assets by Chinese authorities worth $4.2 billion at today’s prices.

According to court filings released publicly on Nov. 19 and posted by The…

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#china #ponzi

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Binance Exiting The US - Gives 14 Days to Leave Exchange

Binance Exiting The US – Gives 14 Days to Leave Exchange

Source: https://decrypt.co/49317/binance-gives-us-users-14-days-to-leave-exchange

In brief

Some Binance users in the US have received emails giving them 14 days to transfer their holdings out of the exchange.

According to the email, if they fail to do so, their account will be locked.

This is an escalation of earlier efforts to keep US users off the exchange.

Binance is again clamping down on…

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Coinbase becomes a Visa principal member

Coinbase becomes a Visa principal member

Coinbase becomes the first pure-play cryptocurrency company to receive Visa membership.

From https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-becomes-a-visa-principal-member-c5b73b883787

Today we’re announcing that Coinbase has become the first pure-play crypto company to be approved as a Visa principal member. Visa membership will enable us to further improve the customer experience, making it easier to…

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Another day, another data breach

Another day, another data breach

U.S.-based food-delivery company says ‘unauthorized third party’ accessed user data May 4

CBC News · Posted: Sep 27, 2019 9:58 AM ET

Online food delivery service DoorDash says it’s the victim of a data breach in which the personal information of 4.9 million people was stolen, including names, email addresses, delivery addresses, phone numbers, and partial banking and credit card details.

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Thomas Cook - End of an Era

Thomas Cook – End of an Era

New York (CNN Business)British tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed on Sunday night, stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers and putting 21,000 jobs at risk.The 178-year-old company said in a statement that its board “concluded that it had no choice but to take steps to enter into compulsory liquidation with immediate effect” after talks on a financial rescue failed. All Thomas Cook bookings…

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Twilio Acquires SendGrid for $2 billion

Exciting news for all technology fans.  Anyone who has worked for a startup or Fintech has most definitely heard of Twilio and SendGrid.

Twilio is well known for being a platform as a service (PaaS) that simplifies building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for global scale. 

SendGrid is well known for being a platform as a service that simplifies delivering transactional and…

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How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

Travelling has its indignities as most people already know. The impertinence of travelers can, at times, be unbearable and difficult to stand. There are limitations however. Justine Sacco, the senior director of corporate communications at IAC experienced firsthand how simple tweets can push the boundaries between harmless intentions and full-blown controversy and virility.

Her journey begins on…

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New York sues OCC for allowing fintechs to become banks

This battle is brewing! The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) opened up the application process for the National Bank Charter for Fintech companies in July 2018.

“Providing a path for fintech companies to become national banks can make the federal banking system stronger by promoting economic growth and opportunity, modernization and innovation, and competition,” Comptroller Otting…

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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2017 from Ferhan Patel on Vimeo.

AI has become huge within the past year. See here how it is going to take off even more in 2017.

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The Top 7 Fintech Companies to Watch This Year from Ferhan Patel on Vimeo.

A list of some of the top Financial Technology companies to keep an eye on in 2016.

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3 Cryptocurrency Exchangers Could Be Breaking the Law

3 Cryptocurrency Exchangers Could Be Breaking the Law

When it comes to Money Transmission Regulations, don’t mess with the US.   Seriously!

The new Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative Report, cited 3 exchangers, Binance, Gate.io, and Kraken for “possibly operating unlawfully in New York”.  The New York Attorney General will now be referring these exchangers to the New York Department of Financial Services.

Last week, a Federal judge in Brooklyn said

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How Stripe built a Powerhouse Payment Platform Online and Now Going Offline

How Stripe built a Powerhouse Payment Platform Online and Now Going Offline

I remember many years ago talking with one of the early investors in Stripe.  He told me that Stripe was build a PSP/PF platform and their target market was Developers.  My initial reaction was, “another gateway”, as there were already so many on the market.  Companies were already building on top of Vantiv and Wells Fargo.  In retrospect, I was so wrong.

However, Stripe did something remarkably…

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#Developers #Payment Processing #Stripe

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7 Things to Consider Before Launching a Fintech Startup

7 Things to Consider Before Launching a Fintech Startup

Fintech is here to stay. Fintech is all about solving pain points we all experience. It’s making an impact in all avenues in our life.  Fintech is not reinventing the wheel, but in fact, improving the Customer Experience as a whole.  It’s improving our spending habits, providing choice, faster access to capital, access to better services.

For example, getting a loan is a standard process.  You go…

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#fintech #regulations #startup

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The Fintech Banks Are Coming: Why You Should Care

The Fintech Banks Are Coming: Why You Should Care

Reposted from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/donnafuscaldo/2018/09/13/the-fintech-banks-are-coming-why-you-should-care/

The fintech banks are coming. With regulators accepting applications from financial technology startups for national bank charters, traditional banks are going to see a lot more competition. Potentially bad news for them. But for consumers, it could be a win if it results in…

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Ferhan Patel is a product manager for finance technology solutions that help businesses better integrate technology into their finance operations.