P2P

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

China Cracks Down On Alt Crypto Trading Platforms
China Cracks Down On Alt Crypto Trading Platforms
January 15, 2018  |  Regulation

China steps up its regulation of cryptocurrency trading by going after online platforms and mobile apps. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported China’s...

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Chinese Investors Find A Way To Trade Bitcoin
Chinese Investors Find A Way To Trade Bitcoin
December 22, 2017  |  Regulation

The Chinese government may have clamped down on bitcoin trading, but that hasn’t stopped the cryptocurrency market from booming in the country. According to news...

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December 21, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Technology has its wow factor. But for independent software vendors (ISVs) and merchants — as with all stakeholders in payments — adoption is key beyond...

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December 11, 2017  |  B2B Payments

New data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) found the U.K.’s alternative finance market grew by 43 percent in 2016, and researchers are...

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December 07, 2017  |  Retail

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with...

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December 07, 2017  |  Payment Methods

It’s not hard to understand why the medium, small and micro-business owners of Canada would appreciate Interac e-Transfer, which enables them to send or receive...

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FinTech innovators are finally paying attention to the B2B sphere, and much of that focus has landed on the cross-border payments space — a notoriously clunky,...

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