May 09, 2024
Ecosystems and Competition Law: A Law and Political Economy Approach

This short paper examines the emergence of the concept of ecosystems in competition law in recent years. This is not a linear process, and a competition law and policy theory...

May 08, 2024
This Week in Web3: Wells Notices, Crypto Payments and Usability

Crypto goes up, and crypto goes down. Then, often, crypto goes back up. It can be a dizzying and volatile cycle. Just collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s customers, who, having once...

May 08, 2024
US Financial Giants Including Visa and JPMorgan Test Shared Ledger...

The U.S. financial system is exploring the use of shared ledger technology for multi-asset transactions. The project will involve a number of high-profile financial institutions (FIs) — including Visa, Mastercard, Citi and...

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...

May 06, 2024
Visa: Bots Drive 90% of Stablecoin Transactions

Bots account for a vast majority of stablecoin transactions, recent Visa research shows. Fewer than 10% of these transactions come from genuine users, according to a new metric from Visa and Allium Labs, showing that...

May 05, 2024
Crypto Firms Engage in Aggressive Fundraising to Boost Valuations

Cryptocurrency startups are reportedly engaging in aggressive fundraising as the digital asset space recovers. As Bloomberg News reported Saturday (May 4), this approach entails an open-ended form of fundraising that...

May 02, 2024
Big Innovations Powering Small Business Growth Dominate This Week in...

It is National Small Business Week in the U.S., and the spotlight is on business-to-business (B2B) innovation.  That’s why PYMNTS spent Monday (April 29) unpacking how small businesses with big ambitions are turning...

May 02, 2024
Data Revolution Adds Stability to Uncertain Financial Transactions

In the new PYMNTS eBook, “The Implications of Uncertainty,” Thredd Chief Administrative Officer Oliver Dean explores how data analytics and AI have transformed the card payments industry.   Continued uncertainty...