Traditional financial operations are centralized, regulated and audited. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are, well, pretty much the opposite, relying instead on cryptographic algorithms and decentralized consensus mechanisms to secure transactions. But despite the sector’s troubled youth, as the blockchain and digital asset space matures, major...
Visa has teamed with WireX to promote the use of digital currencies in Europe and the UK. “This collaboration will explore new opportunities to leverage and integrate innovative Visa cards and reduce friction in payment experiences,” the companies said in a news release Monday (July...
Partior has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round to add new capabilities and more currencies to its global unified ledger-based interbank rails for real-time clearing and settlement. The company’s infrastructure is used by major banks in financial markets that include London, New...
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase introduced a centralized hub for monitoring onchain activity. “In the rapidly evolving, decentralized world of crypto, keeping track of your onchain activities can be hard,” the company said in a Thursday (July 11) blog post. “Today, many people use manual spreadsheets and...
July 04, 2024
Halfway through 2024, and the cryptocurrency and blockchain space finds itself at a critical juncture. It is the same critical juncture, or at least one strikingly similar, that the crypto and digital asset sector has always found itself at — a juncture where regulatory developments, interoperability and scalability, and institutional acceptance are at the forefront. […]
June 20, 2024
Digital technology is undoubtedly the spear tip of innovation driving financial services forward. And that spear tip is coming to include blockchain, or distributed ledger, technology. That’s because proponents of...
June 14, 2024
There’s a new on-chain token in town, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of. While there exists a variety of “tokens” within the 21st-century payments and financial services landscape,...
May 30, 2024
In an era of rapid technological advancement, there remain certain immutable aspects — particularly for payments. When it comes to the way businesses and consumers transact, speed, security and convenience...
July 17, 2024
State Street is reportedly looking at a number of options for settling payments on blockchain. The financial services and banking firm is considering creating its own stablecoin, creating its own deposit token, joining digital-cash consortium efforts, and developing settlement options through blockchain payment startup Fnality, in which it has an investment, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (July […]
July 15, 2024
Visa has teamed with WireX to promote the use of digital currencies in Europe and the UK. “This collaboration will explore new opportunities to leverage and integrate innovative Visa cards...
July 12, 2024
Partior has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round to add new capabilities and more currencies to its global unified ledger-based interbank rails for real-time clearing and settlement....
July 11, 2024
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase introduced a centralized hub for monitoring onchain activity. “In the rapidly evolving, decentralized world of crypto, keeping track of your onchain activities can be hard,” the company...
