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Payments Platform Nuggets Working With Bank of England on Privacy Layer for Digital Pound
Payments platform Nuggets is working with the Bank of England to develop a privacy and identity layer for a potential digital pound, according to a press release on Wednesday.
Nuggets: The Only Decentralized Identity Merging Identity, Compliance, and Payments
In the information age, trust, privacy, security, compliance, and user experience are paramount. While last-gen identity solutions based on passwords, emails, devices, and wallet addresses are still prevalent...
Women Leading The Blockchain Revolution: “We need many more female role models” With Seema Khinda Johnson, Co-Founder of Nuggets and Tyler Gallagher
I had the pleasure of interviewing Seema Khinda Johnson, co-founder and COO of Nuggets, a blockchain-based identity verification and secure payments platform redefining online privacy and security. She has almost two decades’ worth of experience in strategic experience, leading teams in the launch of products globally with world-renowned brands…
The barriers to participation in capitalism are of course in place both online and offline. Underprivileged people in rural areas of India are living in huts on land occupied for generations by their families – but with no body or law to help them assert their rights over that land, secure it for themselves, or leverage its value...The reality is that the administrative structures so many people need to participate in the economy won’t emerge at the pace they need them to. But, excitingly, this shouldn’t be a source of concern for long…
Beyond Plastic - Why A Cashless Society Should Be A Cardless One
A better vision of a cashless society should be built around people’s funded decentralized digital identities. This could be used in apps and across devices, such as phones, watches, fitness devices and smart rings. In this way, consumers could verify all their transactions through their existing phone, which already has biometric verification, rather than being restricted to a single plastic card that can be cloned or stolen…
The top 12 most popular Biometric Update articles of 2018
Nuggets CEO Alastair Johnson wrote in a guest post that the way to repair the broken payment security system is with blockchain-based apps relying on biometrics. These solutions will enable companies to avoid the issue of data protection altogether with zero-knowledge systems…
One world, one key: The growing urgency for a common digital ID
The growth of blockchain as a popular method to streamline financial transactions could also push digital identity. For example Nuggets, a U.K. startup that came out of that country's regulatory sandbox, has built a blockchain system that uses biometrics for payment login and ID verification, but does not store user data…
Consumers are already used to the idea of biometric payments, thanks to the likes of Apple Pay, but this is just the start of things to come, according to Alastair Johnson, CEO and Founder of blockchain-based payments and identity verification platform Nuggets…
New technology, old-threats: Open banking and PSD2
The open banking concept is slowly eating the financial world. Cannibalising the monopoly financial institutions once had on the management of customer funds, regulation around the world is pushing banks to establish APIs so that anyone can create applications that tap into functions previously reserved for these institutions – spending, receiving, analysing account activity – all whilst leveraging the security of the incumbents holding the funds…
Blockchain Startup Nuggets Wins ‘Consumer Anti-Fraud Security Solution of the Year’
Blockchain-based secure payments and identity verification platform Nuggets has joined the Payments Awards 2018 Hall of Fame, alongside Starling Bank, HSBC, NatWest and Just Eat having been named as the winner of the Consumer Anti-Fraud Security Solution of the Year at last night’s annual Payments Awards…
The last decade has seen a monumental shift in the nature of work. Tangible elements like the near-ubiquitous access to high-speed Internet, affordable but powerful personal technology, and a plethora of entrepreneurial zeal have produced what’s called the gig economy, the sharing economy, or the freelance economy…
The use of SMS verification codes as a security measure has recently been exposed as a mere stop-gap solution, but meanwhile biometrics is proving to be one of the best new technologies to combat fraud and identity theft…
Blockchain powered e-commerce payments and ID venture, Nuggets, has been included in the Fintech Power 50. This is an annual guide to the most influential, innovative and powerful figures in the FinTech industry…
Nuggets and Devery collaborate on product authentication and payment platform
Nuggets, the blockchain-enabled payments and ID platform, has today announced a strategic partnership with the product provenance and verification blockchain provider, Devery. The two companies will collaborate on blockchain-based solutions that improve efficiency and strengthen supply ecosystems…
Seema Khinda Johnson, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of UK-based e-commerce payments and ID venture, Nuggets, has been shortlisted for ‘Payments Woman of The Year’ at the Payments Network Awards. And CEO and Founder Alastair Johnson is in the running for ‘Blockchain Founder of The Year’ at the BMW i UK Tech Founder Awards…
Ecommerce is a booming industry. Over the past few years, it’s steadily been climbing in the UK. It’s no secret, however, that current retail platforms face significant issues that, going forward, threaten the efficiency of the industry…
How blockchain can protect your personal and payment data
It’s time for consumers and companies to own their own data. Although the current internet infrastructure with its sizable centralized databases and data-driven economy doesn’t easily accommodate this reality. However, the emergence of blockchain technology as an enterprise solution for data management alters the possibilities for all parties…
Why blockchain can solve the EU’s two-factor authentication dilemma
If you’ve become used to going contactless when out shopping, then you might receive a shock next year. New EU anti-fraud regulation comes into force in September 2019 and will require two-factor payment authentication for physical and online payments, potentially leading to abandoned shopping baskets…
Nuggets’ Alastair Johnson: The world has yet to grasp democratising implications of the blockchain
Overhyped?!? If anything blockchain technology has been underhyped, Alastair Johnson, Founder and CEO of UK-based e-commerce payments and ID platform, Nuggets, tells Coin Rivet…
Nuggets boss: Blockchain tech could topple the status quo
The internet has become incredibly centralised. A few players extract the lion’s share of the value of people’s data. The blockchain could change this status quo…
UK Startup Picked For Lafayette Plug and Play Accelerator
Nuggets, the UK-based e-commerce payments and ID platform, has been picked to join the prestigious Lafayette Plug and Play business accelerator program for startups...As part of the program, Nuggets will join the Plug and Play global community. Member companies have raised over $7billion in funding since 2006 – with success stories including Dropbox, PayPal, Lending Club, SoundHound and Zoosk…
Blockchain Startup Nuggets Shortlisted Alongside Banking & Payments Heavyweights For MoneyAge Awards And Payments Awards
Blockchain-enabled payments and ID platform Nuggets has been selected as a finalist in the MoneyAge Awards, and has been shortlisted for three Payments Awards. The selections mean Nuggets is competing alongside major brands like HSBC, RBS and Mastercard…
Why a former Visa exec joined a U.K. blockchain security startup
Kevin Jenkins, former managing director of Visa U.K. and Ireland, joined the board of London-based fintech Nuggets to oversee business development for the blockchain-based security provider as it enters the massive mobile payments market in Asia…
As No-Deal Brexit Looms, UK Blockchain Startups Are Weighing Options
Alastair Johnson, CEO of Nuggets, an e-commerce and payment ID platform, also struck a largely positive note, telling CoinDesk that his company has found the U.K. government to be a supportive partner…
Nuggets Partners With Credits To Develop Market Leading E-Commerce
Nuggets, the blockchain e-commerce payments and ID business, has partnered with Credits, the blockchain platform for fast and scalable dApps, to develop a better e-commerce experience for both customers and businesses…
What is Zero-knowledge Proof? Meet the ZKP Projects
Zero-knowledge Proof protocols can be very useful in a GDPR context as they can be used to build more secure authentication schemes or provide better data privacy for transactions containing sensitive, non-falsifiable data…
“There’s certainly a lot of hype around the tech, and granted, there are some situations in which it’s being marketed where it’s probably not needed. To outright call it nebulous technology, though, would be blatantly false when we’re already beginning to see use cases materialise that solve real problems,” says Alastair Johnson, CEO and Founder of e-commerce payments and ID platform, Nuggets…
Identity and payments platform Nuggets partners with IoT leader
Nuggets, the blockchain e-commerce payments and ID platform, today announced a partnership with Internet of Things infrastructure company CPChain in a move that signals the direction of Nuggets’ IoT strategy…
In today’s tech environment, security is at the forefront of many people’s minds. That is especially true when finances are involved. Enough platforms have been hacked to make just about anyone nervous…
The Timing Is Right for Blockchain Payments Company – an Interview With Former VISA MD and Nuggets Director Kevin Jenkins
When former VISA Managing Director Kevin Jenkins made the move to join blockchain payments company, Nuggets, as a Non-Executive Director it made the digital asset world sit up and take notice…
EXPERT PANEL: Is replacing the password realistic and should we even try?
Passwords have always been like Japanese Knotweed – once you have introduced them it is almost impossible to get rid of. But is this still the case? Is trying to replace passwords realistic? Or should we all just get better at managing them? We asked the experts for their opinion…
The term "financial institution" no longer evokes visions of a centuries-old, technophobic business, but of an increasingly wide range of startups and partnerships that aim to turbocharge banking and investments on a rapidly evolving playing field…
Visa’s former MD joins payments and ID Blockchain platform Nuggets
Kevin Jenkins, the former Managing Director of Visa has joined the board of blockchain payments and identity brand Nuggets. In a major coup for the fast-growing British company, Jenkins has signed on as a Non-Executive Director…
For our latest Expert Panel our specialists from Signicat, GBG and Nuggets address one of the currently most hotly debated topics – decentralized, or self-sovereign decentralized identity…
Blockchain technology is set to disrupt hierarchies in everything from insurance to supply chains, and many now see its value in retail. In particular, Alastair Johnson, Founder & CEO of Nuggets, who below explains to CEO Today how blockchain may be the solution to the high street’s ongoing retail infection…
Can blockchain enable payments and data security? Alastair Johnson, Nuggets says yes
The Paypers interviews Nuggets’ Alastair Johnson to find out more about the company, its ecommerce initiatives and how blockchain enables payments and data security…
Nuggets, a blockchain e-commerce payments and ID platform, has entered into a partnership with QFPay, one of the largest Chinese mobile payment product providers and which is used by Asian e-commerce giants Alipay and WeChat Pay…
Meet the Boss – Exclusive Interview with Nuggets CEO Alastair Johnson
Identity management in a trustless world is a big issue. In fact, it might just be the core issue that drives adoption of blockchain technology across industries, verticals and processes…
Retail Tech 50 celebrates innovative London startups
Nuggets and Poq have made it into Tech London Advocates’ Retail Tech 50 list, which showcases the most interesting and exciting retail technology companies in London…
Coin Rivet talks to Alastair Johnson, CEO and Founder or e-commerce payments and ID platform, Nuggets, about how blockchain technology can overcome the doubters to help retailers in the digital age…
Blockchain-powered payments & ID platform Nuggets appoints Steve Lau Chairman
Nuggets, the blockchain-powered payments and ID platform, has today announced Steve Lau as the company’s Chairman. Lau is charged with building a market-leading team to drive Nuggets’ growth in China and Asia…
Blockchain Startups Nuggets, Storiqa Partner to Disrupt eCommerce
Nuggets, the blockchain e-commerce payments and ID platform, today announced a collaborative partnership with Storiqa – the blockchain startup that removes marketplace barriers for small and medium-sized (SME) retailers, and builds trust with their buyers…
The Access India Programme (AIP) has recruited blockchain-based e-commerce payments and identity platform, Nuggets, to its ranks in a bid to accelerate India’s move towards a cashless society…
China’s Unprecedented Economic Growth by Alastair Johnson
Napoleon once referred to China as the ‘sleeping giant’. It’s looking, certainly in terms of its economy, like the giant is finally rearing its head. China’s unprecedented and unparallelled growth in the e-commerce sector trumps that of other nations, boasting a 35% rise in the past year (with a market twice the size of that of the rest of the world)…
Telecomms Entrepreneur Steve Lau Joins Nuggets as Senior Advisor
Nuggets, the blockchain-powered payments and ID platform, has welcomed another world-class name to its advisory board: Chinese telecommunications entrepreneur and leader Steve Lau…
Could blockchain eliminate the cost of GDPR for your business?
With just a matter of days until the GDPR rollout occurs across Europe, many CFOs will be well aware of the operational costs involved with staying within the law and not being at risk of huge fines. Blockchain technology could be the answer to avoiding some of the headaches, argues Alastair Johnson…
U.K. Institutions Promote Nuggets Blockchain Project for E-Commerce
Nuggets , a distributed ledger technology (DLT) startup focused on payment and identity systems, has been endorsed by the United Kingdom's Department for International Trade, the Mayor of London and the City of London and invited on two major trade visits to China…
How blockchain will end data breaches by Alastair Johnson
By incorporating the best aspects of cryptography, blockchain allows for the creation of an immutable, decentralised ledger that could finally spell the end of data breaches…
Telecommunications Entrepreneur Steve Lau Joins Nuggets as Senior Strategic Advisor
Lau brings immense expertise in investing and corporate strategy to help Nuggets scale their business following significant interest during China tech tour…
Sadiq Khan partners with UK government to send blockchain startup on China tech mission
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has chosen Nuggets to take part in his International Business Programme, a programme focused on internationalising London-based scaleup businesses. This means Nuggets will be part of official trade visits to China this year…
Blockchain startup Nuggets to lead UK tech mission in China
Not only the UK government, but also the Mayor of London and Department for International Trade (DIT) have outlined how they will help Nuggets to establish its business in China and use their extensive networks to enable business development and growth…
UK Government and Mayor of London select Blockchain Startup Nuggets to Lead UK Tech Mission in China
Department for International Trade, Greater London Authority and City of London Corporation Support Disruptive E-commerce Payments and ID platform, now invited on two trade visits to China…
Blockchain startup Nuggets heads to China with UK trade mission
"The technology we are building has huge implications for e-commerce markets around the world. It's great to see the UK and London supporting innovative technology companies in this way," said Alastair Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nuggets…
UK Government And Mayor Of London Select Blockchain Startup Nuggets To Lead UK Tech Mission In China
Nuggets' continued rise to prominence comes in the wake of the UK Government's declaration of a "new Golden era" in UK-China relations, and shows the potential of the "fintech bridge" agreed between the two countries in 2016…
UK Gov Picks Blockchain Startup Nuggets to Lead Mission in China
Nuggets, the e-commerce payments and ID platform, has been backed by the Department for International Trade, the Mayor of London and the City of London, resulting in the company being invited on two major trade visits to China…
How Biometric Verification Will Revolutionize Online Checkout
Online payments should be simple, safe and seamless.The truth is, though, they’re simply not. The Baymard Institute estimates that 69% of shopping carts are abandoned at checkout. The reasons for this alarming statistic have been attributed to site errors, lack of trust in the website’s ability to keep card information secure, or the requirement to create an account, to name a few…
Cambridge Analytica: Using blockchain to prevent data breaches
The old adage stands: if you’re not paying for it, you are the product. By now, we’ve all heard the news of the Cambridge Analytica under-the-radar data mining efforts, resulting in the harvesting of over 50 million Facebook users’ accounts. This is exactly the sort of abuse of social media many have feared all along.…
Ditch the Password – Reevaluating Threat Models in the Internet of Things
Advances in technology in the blockchain and biometric domains have changed the game for identity management. Gone is the requirement to trust that every company ever registered with is protecting its users’ data adequately. Blockchain technology combines the decentralisation of data with zero-knowledge storage to ensure that the user, and the user only, has access to their own data…
New research highlights retail disruptors to watch
Poq, Nuggets, MishiPay and Exaactly have made it onto the European RetailTech Top 50 List, which was announced this week at the Millennial 20/20 FUTR Summit in London…
Alastair Johnson, CEO and Founder of blockchain e-commerce payments and ID platform, Nuggets tells RTIH about the origins of the company, and his quest to banish passwords and change the way we shop…
Innovations TV Episode Explores Advances in Technology on FOX Business
Innovations will concentrate on the Nuggets blockchain platform, which aims to transform the world of online payment, privacy, and security, by enabling consumers to take back control of their data. Spectators will see how Nuggets combines the security of blockchain encryption with biometric verification to make passwords essentially obsolete, giving users a secure personal cloud of data, held in zero-knowledge storage…
How blockchain and biometrics are set to empower users
At the beginning of the month, it was announced that JD.com (or JingDong), China's e-commerce titan, would be expanding to the UK in 2019, after which it slowly intends to spread across the European continent…
Companies are fooling consumers into giving up their data
With the compliance deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to come into force across Europe in May 2018, the rights of consumers to dictate how companies store and utilise their data are set to be strengthened. Yet while the consumer rights ethos of GDPR should be commended, I believe it is out of date before it has even come into being…
One business that is pioneering solutions of this kind is Nuggets, the blockchain-based e-commerce payments and ID platform that stores consumer personal and payment data securely in the blockchain, so consumers can make simple e-commerce payments and other transactions, without having to share their personal data with anyone – not even Nuggets…
JD.com joins forces with blockchain ecommerce platform Nuggets
Nuggets, a blockchain ecommerce payments and ID platform, has been selected by Chinese online retailer JD.com’s AI Catapult Accelerator (AICA). With more than 266 million active customers, JD is a direct seller of millions of brands from around the world and hosts a marketplace of more than 160,000 merchants. In China, 80% of JD’s customer orders are made from a mobile device…
China’s Top Retailer Launches Startup Incubator To Lure Foreign Blockchain Projects
China’s largest online and brick and mortar retailer JD.com announced the first four startups for its Al Catapult Blockchain incubation program in a press release published Tuesday, Feb. 27. The Beijing-based program, which has seen candidates from as far afield as Australia and the UK, aims to use the company’s vast Chinese infrastructure to arrive at new applications of Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), according to the press release…
Chinese Retailer JD.com Launches Blockchain Accelerator
JD.com, the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut and Alibaba’s closest rival, is launching a new accelerator program for artificial intelligence and blockchain startups, the company said today…
JD.com's new accelerator focuses on blockchain startups
JD.com, one of China's largest e-commerce companies, is launching a new Beijing-based accelerator program for artificial intelligence and blockchain startups. Called AI Catapult, its first batch includes six companies: Bankorus, CanYa, Bluezelle, Nuggets, Republic Protocol and Devery…
Nuggets, an e-commerce payments and ID platform, has announced the official launch of a NUG token Bounty campaign. Nuggets plans to use its new program to empower a community of users; made up of crypto enthusiasts, system engineers, application developers, researchers, thinkers, writers and other collaborators, to further the company’s mission of giving consumers true control of their data…
Blockchain And Cryptocurrency Effects On The Payment Processing Industry
"A purely peer-to- peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." These are the words of Satoshi Nakamoto, the still unknown creator of Bitcoin, in the abstract section of the original whitepaper describing the peer-to- peer electronic cash system…
Nuggets is an e-commerce payments and ID platform. It stores your personal and payment data securely in the blockchain, so you never have to share it with anyone – not even Nuggets. That means no more data breaches – because companies don’t have to store your data. So you can make payments and use services without worrying about your privacy or security…
Putting ID on the blockchain, why Nuggets is a truly innovative technology, Joshua J. Bouw, Co-founder of BlackCoin
I came from a community that was seeking a better implementation of Austrian economics on the blockchain. Naturally, Proof of Stake was interesting to me, so I set out with others to bring the first fully Proof of Stake coin to life in early 2014. That was Blackcoin. Since then, I’ve been engrossed in my endless desire to explore new blockchain technologies…
Renowned Blockchain Expert Joshua J. Bouw Joins Nuggets as Senior Strategic Advisor
Nuggets, a groundbreaking consumer blockchain platform aiming to transform the world of online payment, privacy and security by enabling consumers to take back control of their personal data, is pleased to announce that Joshua J. Bouw, world renowned blockchain expert and co-Founder of Blackcoin, has joined the team as a Senior Strategic Advisor…
2017 was the year where the marketer’s role in retail changed drastically and retail businesses (both pure-play and omni-channel retailers) had to come to terms with a new playing field that required them to disrupt their own strategy at every turn. Amongst a very long list, this included understanding the next generation of customers, learning how AI can help them in their role, maximising sales during Black Friday and key shopping days, preparing for GDPR (in Europe), building personalisation into the core customer experience, implementing new solution providers to the marketing stack and experimenting with new technologies and tactics to see what works…
The 15 Startup Innovators That are Set to Light Up the Blockchain Cybersecurity Market
Blockchain technology is most often associated with cryptocurrencies and financial services applications. But, it’s the very decentralized nature and cryptographic anchor of blockchain that makes it a prime foundation for cybersecurity solutions, particularly considering the continued mass-scale data breaches and identity theft happening on a worldwide scale and within the most well-guarded corporate perimeters. The race is on for blockchain-based cybersecurity. ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies, has identified the fifteen startups in the blockchain-based cybersecurity space who are driving these unprecedented security solutions…
How blockchain can protect our personal data from hackers
The way companies store personal data is broken. The cybersecurity industry has mushroomed in recent years, but the data breaches just keep coming. Almost every day brings news of a new data breach, with millions of records compromised — including payment details, passwords, and other information that makes those customers vulnerable to theft and identity fraud…
