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Forex News

  • Japanese yen weakens a day after reports of currency intervention, dollar rises
  • Canadian dollar slips but posts fourth straight weekly gain
  • USD/JPY: What are the chances of a second round of government intervention?
  • Citigroup exits yen trade after Japan intervention, cites oil risks
  • Japan suspected of $34.5 billion currency intervention to support yen

Federal Reserve News

  • Agencies issue host state loan-to-deposit ratios
  • Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
  • Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by OceanFirst Financial Corp.
  • Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Banco de Credito del Peru
  • Agencies finalize changes to enhance community bank leverage ratio

WSJ Markets News

27 January 2025

  • Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China's DeepSeek
  • Comex Gold, Silver Settle Lower
  • DeepSeek Won't Sink U.S. AI Titans
  • Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
  • Arabica Coffee Prices Hit Record on U.S., Colombia Tariff Spat
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How Your Smartwatch Reveals Your ATM PIN Codes

Written by: INC
Category: ATM

Hackers who gain control of a smartwatch can record hand motion down to the millimeter and steal PIN numbers when they are entered at ATMs with 80 percent accuracy on the first try, and over 90 percent accuracy after three tries, according to researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and Binghamton University in New York.

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Could virtual reality be the next big thing in banking?

Written by: Matthew S Daye
Category: Banking

While we have been hearing predictions about the disruptive impact of virtual reality (VR) headsets for many years, questions still remain. Now that some models have finally made it to market (including the Oculus Rift from Facebook), we must ask: Could VR devices also cause similar disruption within the banking industry?

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Using Mobile Banking Apps For Two-Way Customer Communication

Written by: The Financial Brand
Category: Mobile Banking

Juniper Research predicts that by 2017, there will be a billion mobile banking customers around the world. 40% of these will still take the time to get on the phone or visit their bank’s physical branches for certain inquiries. And according to research from KPMG, more than half of global banking consumers express a real desire for combined social, personalized and “human” interactions to be integrated into a bank’s online services and mobile apps.

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15 Big Players in Banking Technology

Written by: eFinancial Careers
Category: Banking

If you work in banking technology (or have ambitions to do so) these are people you should know. As investment banks increase their tech budgets and hire more and more people into technology functions, these are the men leading thousands of people or heading up new developments in financial technology.

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Tokenized securities on blockchain are here. And they’ve been around for a while

Written by: Aikon
Category: Digital Currency

Remember tokenized securities or securitization with tokens on blockchain?

With the entire year in crypto defined by a maelstrom of projects embarking on decentralized finance (DeFi) aspects to their products, it can be easy to forget that previous advancements in blockchain-based technologies have continued to make great headway in terms of adoption and application.

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Smartphone Payments Are India's Best Spark for Modern Banking

Written by: Payments Source
Category: Cards & Payments

In many emerging markets, daily financial transactions—buying groceries, paying a utility bill, cashing a paycheck or billing a customer—are notoriously difficult. Banking institutions are few and far between, and large swaths of the population have little or no access to them.

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Possible Futures for Forecasting Cash Demand

Written by: Matthew S Daye
Category: Currency

We're reading some interesting things these days--some old and some new--and wanted to share a few tidbits. While new technology might do away with the actual cash itself, forecasting cash demand will always be necessary even if the cash, literally, no longer exists!

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Bitcoin News

  • France Scraps Dangerous Reporting Rule, Pension Fund Buys MSTR, And More – Week In Review
  • Latam Insights: Brazil Bans Crypto Transfers as Meta Launches USDC Payouts
  • Worker Wins Landmark AI Substitution Case in China
  • This Week in Crypto Law (Apr. 26, 2026)
  • Stables CEO Says Migrant Flows Favor USDT, Driving 60% Cross-Border Dollar Demand

Coin Telegraph News

  • New York forces Uphold to pay $5M over fraudulent crypto investment scheme
  • Crypto industry will be ‘just fine’ if CLARITY Act doesn’t pass: Chris Perkins
  • Bitcoin logs best monthly performance in 12 months during April
  • US CISA adds ‘insane’ Linux Copy Fail flaw to watch list
  • Here’s what happened in crypto today

Coin Journal News

  • Ondo price forecast: bulls target multi-month resistance at $0.30
  • Shiba Inu price holds key support despite whale selling 800B SHIB
  • Nexo expands 0% credit to SOL, XRP, becoming first mover in crypto
  • Real Finance teams up with Wiener Privatbank to unlock institutional crypto access
  • Bitcoin slips to $75k as Fed holds rates, crypto stocks tumble
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