07 Jan 22 @ 16:12

In this post we look at the top payment trends for 2022 – 2021 was a year of transition for the payments industry as we moved towards Payments 4.X −... read more

05 Jan 22 @ 16:34

People’s Bank of China’s (PBOC) has released a pilot versions of its e-CNY, digital yuan wallet application on app stores as the central bank steps up its push to develop... read more

13 Dec 21 @ 11:05

Banque de France (BdF), Swiss National Bank (SNB) and Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) Innovation Hub have successfully completed Project Jura, an experiment in cross-border wholesale CBDC, in collaboration with Accenture, Credit Suisse, Natixis, R3, SIX Digital Exchange and UBS.... read more

10 Dec 21 @ 10:18

In Q4 of 2021, FinTech Connect surveyed 100+ FinTech Leads from across the entire FinTech ecosystem to find out more about what are the challenges and opportunities currently presented within... read more

10 Dec 21 @ 09:28

Bitcoin mining has jumped close to its all-time high as cryptocurrency miners shift their operations to new countries following the crackdown in China. The bitcoin hash-rate, a measure of how... read more

06 Dec 21 @ 16:01

With claims circulating that not one but two quantum computers have already been developed which are 10 million times faster than the most powerful conventional supercomputers and IBM recently announcing... read more

06 Dec 21 @ 09:00

The FinTech industry has grown exponentially over the last decade and this expansion won’t be slowing down in 2022 either. While 2020 and 2021 were dominated by the challenges of... read more

29 Nov 21 @ 16:19

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) looks set to revolutionise financial services, by replacing centralised intermediaries with software running on blockchains. Decentralized Finance (DeFI) refers to the use of platforms such as Ethereum... read more

13 Oct 21 @ 17:02

For more than a decade, the shift to e-commerce and mobile has brought huge amounts of investment into payments. As further fresh investment rounds are announced, PCM asks whether a... read more

12 Oct 21 @ 08:10

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has recently published a technical whitepaper on retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), becoming one of the 82 countries now exploring the move to... read more

12 Oct 21 @ 08:05

R3 has acquired the technology and team of the financial asset tokenization specialist Ivno, enabling the use of Ivno-developed capabilities across the Corda platform. This acquisition further strengthens R3’s capabilities in the... read more

06 Oct 21 @ 12:33

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published, for public consultation, preliminary guidance that confirms and clarifies that stablecoin arrangements... read more

01 Oct 21 @ 12:00

A group of seven central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve, Sveriges Riksbank and Swiss National Bank), together with the Bank... read more

30 Sep 21 @ 15:23

Visa has announced the launch of a Universal Payments Channel that will support transactions between stablecoins and CBDCs. It an ambitious idea from Visa at this time as it hopes... read more

14 Sep 21 @ 15:54

A majority of Europeans want their own governments to regulate cryptocurrency while a growing number would also support the creation of national digital currencies in order to assert some monetary... read more

13 Sep 21 @ 08:27

Central banks should move forward with CBDC projects to avoid falling behind comparable private sector payment initiatives that are already taking root, Benoît Cœuré, Head of Innovation at Bank for... read more

19 Aug 21 @ 11:06

Facebook has announced it will launch the Novi digital wallet tied to the Diem blockchain-based payment system, having received the necessary regulatory clearances. David Marcus, chief of Facebook’s financial services... read more

25 Jun 21 @ 12:14

CryptoRefills, in cooperation with Cointelegraph Research, has published the first global research on consumer adoption of cryptocurrencies for purchasing goods and services. This report, Cryptocurrencies in Retail: Consumer Adoption Report 2021,... read more

23 Jun 21 @ 16:10

The ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN), a non-profit backed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the ASEAN Bankers Association, is launching... read more

11 Jun 21 @ 16:17

It’s been on the cards for some time, but 2021 is finally seeing established payment companies take the opportunities of cryptocurrency seriously, and among those taking a serious look at... read more