May 15, 2024
Block-Owned TBD and Chipper Cash Partner on Cross-Border Payments in...

Block-owned TBD and African FinTech Chipper Cash partnered to facilitate B2C and B2B cross-border payments across 40 African countries. Chipper Cash has integrated with TBD’s open messaging protocol, tbDEX, to power cross-border payments and decentralized...

May 14, 2024
Ahead of Hill Hearing, Regulators Say Banks ‘Resilient’ but Risks...

Testimony from some of the top regulators in the country ahead of a Wednesday (May 15) Capitol Hill hearing on bank oversight took note of the resilience of the banking...

May 14, 2024
Tanger Outlets Court the Digital, Aspirational Shopper

May 2020. The COVID-19 lockdown was starting to ease, but it was in its second month. Consumers were flocking toward the dramatic digital shift that would eventually be the hallmark...

May 10, 2024
FSOC: Regulators, Congress Should Enhance Resilience of Nonbank Mortgage Companies

The Financial Stability Oversight Committee (FSOC) is encouraging state and federal regulators and Congress to do more to enhance the resilience of nonbank mortgage companies (NMCs). The agency did so in a report released...

May 09, 2024
Financially Struggling Consumers Twice as Likely to Hit Credit Card...

Many consumers hit their credit card limit at least sometimes, and for consumers struggling to get by financially, that percentage skyrockets. By the Numbers The December installment of PYMNTS Intelligence’s “New Reality...

May 08, 2024
Fed Governor Lisa Cook Highlights Private Credit as Emerging Issue

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook highlighted commercial real estate, private credit and cyber risks as potential issues. Speaking Wednesday (May 8) at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Cook provided a current assessment of financial...

May 06, 2024
ECB Official: Central Banks Must ‘Speed Up’ CBDC Adoption

Bundesbank’s president said central banks must speed the adoption of digital currency to remain viable. “If you would have asked me 20 years ago if the central bank business model”...

May 06, 2024
Vodafone is Bringing Crypto Payments to SIM Card-Based Mobile Wallets

Phone, keys, wallet. That’s the daily routine that tens of millions  if not billions — of people undergo each morning when checking their pockets or purses before they leave their...

May 06, 2024
Swiss National Bank Says Wholesale CBDC Eliminates Barriers in Financial...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is conducting a pilot project that has used wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) and successfully settled four tokenized bond issuances and one secondary market transaction. Project...