12 Apr 26 @ 20:56
Confirmo’s regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Ireland is more than a corporate milestone. It is an early illustration of how Europe’s stablecoin payments market is beginning to divide... read more
27 Aug 24 @ 11:21
Hot on the heels of DECTA’s recent announcement, Banking Circle has announced the launch of EURI, a bank-backed stablecoin, compliant with the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA). The launch... read more
05 Jul 24 @ 13:09
At Money20/20 2024, industry leaders Vedran Jankovic from Deutsche Bank and Lukas Enzersdorfer from Bitpanda highlighted the transformative impact of MiCA regulations, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology on the fintech sector.... read more
21 Apr 23 @ 12:51
The European Parliament has signed off on the MiCA regulation, an ambitious and forward thinking law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry... read more
19 Apr 23 @ 17:15
In October 2022, the European Union finalised the text of its regulatory framework called Markets in Crypto-Assets or MiCA. The final vote on the new regulation is scheduled for April 19, 2023, meaning the... read more
03 Nov 22 @ 18:05
The European Union is set to be the first major jurisdiction in the world to agree how to regulate the digital asset sector, via its Markets in Crypto Assets regulation... read more
13 Oct 22 @ 11:04
The European Council’s Permanent Representatives Committee has approved MiCA, the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation text, and sent it to the chair of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary... read more
01 Sep 22 @ 10:41
It seems that the direction of travel for the regulation of cryotocurrency and crypto assets in the EU and UK are taking strongly divergent paths. In Europe there is the... read more
18 Mar 22 @ 10:48
The regulation of crypto assets and related services is still not treated uniformly in the European Union and resembles more a patchwork of regulatory fragmentation. Although the fifth Anti-Money Laundering... read more
07 Dec 23 @ 10:57
France’s 3rd biggest bank by assets and Western Europe’s 7th biggest has stolen a march on competitors by launching EUR CoinVertible its own stablecoin. Société Générale will become the first... read more
09 May 23 @ 12:14
We may be in the middle of a crypto winter, and digital assets might have lost two-thirds of their value. But that’s not stopping regulators preparing for a future crypto... read more
01 Dec 22 @ 13:00
The value of bitcoin peaked at $69,000 in November 2021 before falling to $17,000 by mid-June 2022. Since then, the value has fluctuated around $20,000. For bitcoin proponents, the seeming... 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
12 Apr 26 @ 20:58
Stablecoins are beginning to establish themselves as a serious instrument in business-to-business payments, shifting the conversation from speculative crypto activity towards practical treasury use. The latest figures suggest that adoption... read more
10 Mar 26 @ 17:33
Visa has unveiled a new capability within its Visa Acceptance Platform designed to help payment acquirers modernise their transaction processing infrastructure through a single application programming interface (API). The new... read more
16 Feb 26 @ 14:31
Stablecoins have moved decisively into the financial mainstream. With more than $300 billion in circulation and annual settlement volumes estimated to exceed $20 trillion, tokenised dollars now function as a... read more
16 Feb 26 @ 14:12
Global fintech investment staged a notable recovery in 2025, marking a decisive break from three consecutive years of contraction. Total funding rose to $116 billion across 4,719 deals, up from... read more
04 Feb 26 @ 17:17
For decades, the POS terminal was a steadfast but unremarkable fixture of retail life — the small, grey box whose sole purpose was to approve or decline a card transaction.... read more
03 Feb 26 @ 18:04
Digital asset payments are edging closer to everyday commerce as Lydian launches a new application enabling cryptocurrency acceptance across Clover devices for crypto POS payments. The move allows merchants using... read more
02 Feb 26 @ 20:37
OpenAI has raised a pointed warning about an underappreciated vulnerability in agentic AI systems: hyperlinks. As AI agents move beyond conversation into execution — browsing the web, retrieving data and... read more
17 Mar 26 @ 15:03
Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial inte... more
22 Mar 26 @ 18:30
Visa and Fiserv are extending their long-running partnership in Europe with a new API-driven acceptance offering designed to simplify merchant acquiring and mod... more
17 Mar 26 @ 15:04
Mastercard has agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure specialist BVNK in a deal worth up to $1.8 billion, marking one of the clearest signals yet that majo... more