Korea Seeks to Ease Fintech Ownership, Crypto Regulations

(Courtesy of Getty Images) South Korea’s top financial regulator has proposed easing restrictions on ownership of financial holding companies in fintech platforms from the current 5% to 15%, a first such since the ownership limit was introduced in 2000. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) is also considering allowing businesses and unincorporated organizations to trade cryptocurrencies…

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Bealls, a 110-year-old retail giant, will accept Meme and Stablecoins in stores

Bealls will now accept over 99 digital currencies from 300 wallets through its new Flexa Payments integration. Bealls, a 110-year-old American retail chain with more than 660 stores nationwide, announced a new partnership with digital payments company Flexa to enable in-store cryptocurrency payments. With this integration, Bealls becomes the first national retailer to accept digital…

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AI Meme Tokens Like FARTCOIN Dominate Crypto Markets, Suggesting a Powerful 2025 Trend

FARTCOIN, AI16Z, and ZEREBRO have a combined market cap of nearly $4.5 billion, representing approximately 40% of the entire category of tokens at the intersection of artificial intelligence and memes. FARTCOIN, AI16Z and ZEREBRO are three examples of the convergence of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. (Shutterstock) Posted January 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST….

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iOS 18.5 already in tests such as the features of Apple’s intelligence for Siri potentially delayed

Apple software engineers have been testing internally iOS 18.5 since at least the beginning of February, according to the Macrumors Visitors’ newspapers. Usually the presence of iOS 18.5 in our newspapers would not be remarkable. However, BloombergLast week, Mark Gurman reported that Apple was considering delaying or limiting at least part of his promised Apple…

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