Goldman-Backed Circle E-Payment Network Gets UK Licence, Partners with Barclays
Is regulation and big banks participation the pill that the doctor ordered for Bitcoin companies to flourish? UK e-money licence. Barclays and Circle through their path-breaking partnership have demonstrated that banks do not need to fear dealing with Bitcoin companies. One can expect many more cryptocurrency-based companies to enter the financial mainstream in the coming months. Circle, the social payment network backed by Goldman Sachs, has launched its services in the UK. It has received an e-money licence and has partnered with Barclays in this initiative. On 5 April, Circle was....
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An exciting partnership between Barclays and Bitcoin exchange Circle could lead to a slew of new features and innovations in the digital payment industry. Moreover, this is very positive news for Bitcoin as well, as the European bank is letting Circle use their existing infrastructure to provide real-time conversion from GBP and EUR to Bitcoin, and vice versa. Circle – A New Era Of Bitcoin and Banking? Up until this point, very few banks have been keen on the concept of Bitcoin, although they all seem to see high value in the underpinning blockchain technology. In fact, consumers have had....
Bitcoin company Circle Internet Financial has completed a funding round of $50 million with help from banking firm Goldman Sachs and venture group IDG Capital Partners. Circle is also updating its core services to enable the transfer and storage of US dollars, which are insured by the FDIC and not subject to bitcoin’s volatility. These functions run parallel to Circle’s existing infrastructure and expand its scope of financial services. Entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire launched Circle in October 2013 to make bitcoin “as easy to use as Gmail, Skype, and other consumer services on the Internet....
Barclay enters into a partnership with Circle, allowing the bitcoin-based social fund transfer application to use its infrastructure to transfer Pounds Sterling. Barclays, the British banking giant is not new to digital currency and blockchain technology. The bank, known to encourage and work with innovative technologies has taken another step in that direction by announcing its recent partnership with Circle, a bitcoin social payments application. According to the partnership, Barclays, the mainstream banking major will be offering its infrastructure for a private company to deliver....