Property Rights

Wise County will see up to $50,000 in grant funds to update the county and Norton’s land records system.

WISE — Wise County will see up to $50,000 in grant funds to update the county and Norton’s land records system.

Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Samuel D. Tweah, Jr., has expressed the Government of Liberia’s commitment to ensure that land-owners and squatters have legal titles to their land. According to him, Speaking at the official launch of the Digitization of Government Processes Systematic Land Titling project on Friday, January 15, 2021, at the Clara…

A Texas man was charged with allegedly trying to con two banks out of millions in PPP loans.

Crypto asset manager CoinShares is launching a new physically-backed bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) today.

Livecoin cryptocurrency exchange closes down after being hacked in December – SiliconANGLE

The Guardian’s technology editor, Alex Hern, looks at the rise of bitcoin and whether it should be banned

Singapore-based FinTech Grab is mulling a U.S. initial public offering of at least $2 billion in the wake of failed merger talks with Indonesian rival Gojek.

In today’s top news, Biden is bringing in the FTC’s Rohit Chopra to lead the CFPB, and Jet.com founder Marc Lore is retiring from Walmart.

Offline travel app Maps.me has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Alameda Research, joined by new investors Genesis Capital and CMS Holdings.

India’s Reliance billionaire Mukesh Ambani is planning to embed its eCommerce app JioMart into WhatsApp within six months, according to a Mint report.

Walmart’s Flipkart Group, which is looking to go public, will now allow its customers to use rewards points alone to pay for products — online and off.

In today’s top payments news around the world, Mobile Money and bKash have teamed with Ripple.

Gary Gensler, the former Commodities Futures Trading Commissioner Chair, has been selected by President-elect Joe Biden to helm the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Gensler previously led the CFTC during the Obama administration. Prior to the CFTC, Gensler spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs. He is also a member of

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate Rohit Chopra as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tapping a progressive ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren to helm…