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What to Know About Cryptocurrency and Scams

The Startup Magazine

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency that uses cryptography, a process of transforming information into code, to help ensure the security of financial transactions. With this wallet loaded with Bitcoins, they could use the coins for purchases or exchange them for other forms of currency. The Risks of Investing in Cryptocurrency.

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Agio On Hedge Fund Cybersecurity And The Difficulty Of Securing Private Equity Firms

YoungUpstarts

When thinking about how to start a private equity firm or a hedge fund, security should be on the list of priorities. Typically, hedge funds have more complex systems as well as more cash movements, data, and transactions, but those are not the only attributes that determine how complex the process of securing an entity is.

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Q4 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

Coinbase submitted their draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kobalt raised a $1.25M seed to accelerate SMB security programs. It’s incredible to see how much everyone has been able to accomplish despite the fact that every aspect of life has been dramatically altered.

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What Your Business Needs to Know About Forensic Accounting

The Startup Magazine

Specialists in the field ensure finances are in order and secure. The Securities and Exchange Commission led the forensic investigation. Forensic accounting entails examining the finances of an individual or business. They are also employed to look for financial improprieties in business transacting. Shares dropped to $1.

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Why Online Privacy Can Make Or Break A Business

YoungUpstarts

Consumers are becoming more enlightened on the issue and this can make them snob sites that don’t seem secure. You may be confident that you have done everything in your power to secure your processes. When traffic to your site is compromised, your business is affected negatively. .

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The New Startup: Legal Financing & Lawsuit Loans

YoungUpstarts

The practice of legal financing dates back to the early 1990s, but it didn’t take off in the United States until Credit Suisse Securities launched a litigation lending program in 2006 that later became its own company in 2012. How Lawsuit Loans Work. Basically, legal financing lenders purchase a portion of the settlement.

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4 startups facilitating a borderless world

The Startup Magazine

Thomsen was extremely frustrated by this and swore to create a solution that made cross-border payments as cheap, fast, easy and secure as domestic transactions: and so Inpay was born. Standard cross border payments rely on various intermediaries to carry out tasks like verifying the parties’ identities and deal with exchange rates.