3dcart Enables Online CBD Sales and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/11/19

E-commerce services provider 3dcart said it and Fort Point Payments now offer services to enable online sales of CBD products. CBD—short for cannabidiol—is a non-intoxicating extract of marijuana.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., which began processing real-time payments about a year ago, is “approaching 1 million transactions per month,” according to an executive in charge of the bank’s faster-payments service quoted in Computer Business Review.
Binance, said to be the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, selected CipherTrace to help with its compliance with anti-money-laundering regulation.
The New York Department of Financial Services, has now issued 19 virtual-currency licenses with the approval of an application from Bitstamp USA Inc., a unit of Bitstamp Ltd. In 2015, the NYDFS became the first regulatory unit in the United States to issue such licenses.
Mercator Advisory Group named Brien Henderson vice president and managing director of sales. Henderson was chief marketing office for KIVA Group, a software provider for financial institutions.

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