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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently banned banks from working with individuals or businesses dealing with digital currencies. On April 6, 2018, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) followed in same footsteps. The SBP mentioned in a separate statement that cryptocurrencies were no longer legal in Pakistan. According to Reuters, the SBP like the RBI told banks and other…

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Pakistan launched its first FinTech Center in February, which will focus on the development of payment-related financial technologies and growth of early stage startups looking into emerging markets such as bitcoin, the blockchain and peer-to-peer (P2P) payments. At the two-day Startup Lahore conference, Information Technology University (ITU) vice chancellor Umar Saif and University of Washington Department of Computer Science and…

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