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22 Feb 21 @ 15:19
Almost all countries increased regulation of the crypto finance industry in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic provoked a significant boost of digital crimes, including money laundering, terrorist financing, online black marketing... read more
11 Feb 21 @ 16:32
Hot on the heels of Visa and its recent announcement, Mastercard says it will begin allowing cardholders to transact in certain cryptocurrencies on its network, the latest company to embrace digital... read more
04 Feb 21 @ 17:52
3.2 billion people worldwide used smartphones in 2019, and 3.5 billion in 2020. The move towards digital and mobile payment and commerce is so well document both by Payments Cards... read more
27 Jan 21 @ 15:47
Worldline has announced a strategic co-operation with Gold Global Currency, to offer the DaVinci Gold token based on Worldline’s stablecoin management infrastructure. This initiative further expands the capability of Worldline’s... read more
05 Jan 21 @ 16:59
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has published a letter clarifying national banks’ and federal savings associations’ authority to participate in independent node verification networks (INVN) and... read more
14 Dec 20 @ 12:30
A little more than a year ago Mu Changchun, Deputy Chief in the Payment and Settlement Division of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC,) stated that the digital yuan CBDC... read more
30 Oct 20 @ 16:29
On the heels of PayPal announcing it will enter the crypto sector, JPMorgan Chase announced that its digital currency offering, JPM Coin, is finally ready for deployment. The token .... read more
05 Oct 20 @ 18:58
A new survey by RUSI and ACAMS has revealed how professionals in the cryptocurrency industry believe that governments are behind the curve on the perceived risks, opportunities, and regulation of... read more
28 Sep 20 @ 09:47
The European Union (EU) has laid out a new legal framework for oversight and governance of digital currency assets by 2024, hoping to provide greater comfort for financial institutions in... read more
21 Sep 20 @ 09:01
The ECB says it is still assessing whether to introduce a digital euro and that it will soon share findings of a task force before launching a final public consultation.... read more
14 Sep 20 @ 14:18
For years criminals have made money through criminal schemes like drug trafficking and counterfeiting cash. In the last decade, criminals have increasingly turned to cybercrime – using hackers to conduct... read more
09 Sep 20 @ 14:26
With the global economy racing to embrace digital payments, central banks also are looking to the future and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), investigating how to support innovation while maintaining... read more
28 Aug 20 @ 09:55
This week signified a major breakthrough for stablecoin payments. Much derided for the lack of speed and power needed to perform consumer payments, this week Coinify, Sygnum Bank and Galaxus... read more
25 Aug 20 @ 13:22
The blockchain industry is excited, very excited about a new (relatively) buzz word – decentralised finance or DeFi as it is rapidly becoming know as. The industry is on the... read more
13 Aug 20 @ 13:14
Ripple has created one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies. Its digital tokens, known as XRP, have a total value of almost $30 billion, behind only bitcoin and Ether. But, eight... read more
04 Aug 20 @ 12:33
A new study has found that the total value of B2B cross-border payments will reach $35 trillion in 2022 from a COVID-related low of $27 trillion in 2020; representing 30%... read more
06 Jul 20 @ 11:08
Fraud has been a problem since coins were introduced more than two thousand years ago. In today’s digital age, the problem won’t go away – indeed, it’s getting worse despite... read more
24 Jun 20 @ 12:10
A group of leading technology, finance and nonprofit companies have joined forces to announce the launch of PayID, a universal payment ID to simplify the process of sending and receiving... read more
16 Jun 20 @ 16:23
Last week the US House Committee on Financial Services held a virtual hearing about the Digital Dollar or central bank digital currency (CBDC). The event promised to be interesting as two... read more
21 May 20 @ 12:58
Banque de France, the French central bank, has completed what it is calling the first successful test of a digital euro, as part of its ongoing experiments with central bank... read more
14 Apr 26 @ 20:03
Visa is stepping up its push into agentic commerce with the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new tool intended to help businesses plug into AI-driven s... more
16 Apr 26 @ 11:46
American Express is positioning itself early for what could become one of the next major shifts in digital payments: AI agents that do more than recommend produ... more
21 Apr 26 @ 14:35
Revolut is beginning to sound more like a future public market heavyweight than a fast-growing European fintech. Chief executive Nik Storonsky has said the com... more
