Bitcoin Lending Platform at Finovate Europe
This February, the Finovate group will hold their conference, Finovate Europe, in the UK’s capital city of London. The US-based Finovate group, created in 1995, is one of the leading experts in research concerning banking technology and financial innovations. You might have heard the name if you have read the top notch research concerning banking and their publications of the online banking reports. They also run a very popular blog called NETbanker.com. Finovate founder Jim Bruene was extremely interested in what innovations that Bitbond aim to bring to the table. Mr Bruene said: Bitbond....
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