Cryptocurrency

19 May 22 @ 12:55

The cryptocurrency and assets market has grown significantly and is now worth £1.6 trillion globally. In the UK, over 2.3 million consumers now hold some form of cryptoasset. With such... read more

16 May 22 @ 11:14

The crisis engulfing one of the world’s biggest stablecoins has worsened, inflaming regulators’ concerns over the assets that underpin the global cryptocurrency market. The episode has poured fresh fuel on... read more

12 May 22 @ 16:32

Yesterday there were amazing report about a man, who had never flown an airplane managing to successfully land the plane as the pilot had passed out…he had plenty of support... read more

10 May 22 @ 17:20

A survey of Senior Payments Professionals has found that merchants across a range of industries are seeing substantial losses as a result of unoptimised payment strategies. In the Great Payments... read more

09 May 22 @ 12:52

Nine out of 10 central banks are exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and more than half are now developing them or running concrete experiments. In particular, work on retail... read more

04 May 22 @ 09:59

Cryptocurrency has been in the sights of the payments industry for more than a decade, but it still only just making its way into mainstream commerce. One reason is volatility... read more

27 Apr 22 @ 16:41

“170 years ago Americans pushed westward across the frontier to seek their fortune in the gold rush. Greed and lawlessness turned this promised land into the Wild West, where the... read more

22 Apr 22 @ 10:50

In early March of 2022 the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released warning on illegal crypto ATMs operating in the UK – but why? In the warning the FCA noted... read more

20 Apr 22 @ 17:10

In what will almost certainly turn out to be an ill informed attempt to influence policy, more than 40 crypto business leaders have written to the European Union asking not... read more

13 Apr 22 @ 16:00

Mastercard has joined the land grab by major payments players and banks into the Metaverse, with new filings related to NFTs, virtual worlds and more. The 15 filings by Mastercard,... read more

12 Apr 22 @ 11:10

It should be possible to integrate an e-krona into banks’ and payment service providers’ own existing systems. This is the conclusion of the Riksbank after testing a technical solution for... read more

08 Apr 22 @ 13:02

The business worlds most loathsome CEO has announced he will give a digital currency another shot after the damaging and embarrassing roll back of the Diem attempt. The man who... read more