Regulatory clarity sits at the center of the convergence of crypto and traditional finance. And, from the point of view of payments professionals, CFOs and treasury teams, stablecoins sit at the center of crypto’s potential within enterprise and corporate finance applications. These digital assets —...
Digital assets solutions provider BitGo has debuted a dedicated retail platform. The new platform, announced Monday (Dec. 2), is designed to offer retail customers access to BitGo’s digital asset trading, staking, wallets and qualified custody services. “We are thrilled to launch BitGo’s dedicated retail platform...
The contemporary B2B landscape is being reshaped by a seismic shift toward automation and simplification. Companies are ditching clunky, manual processes in favor of sleek, digital-first solutions that prioritize speed, simplicity and scalability. The winners? Those who embrace embedded finance, real-time data insights and automation...
Blockchain is growing into a global innovation that transcends its initial association with crypto. The auction house Christie’s, for example, recently announced that an upcoming collection of fine art photography will include blockchain-based certificates of ownership for digital provenance purposes. And from banking to payments...
August 12, 2024
Despite the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, Web3 businesses need banking partners. But on Thursday (Aug. 8), news broke that Pennsylvania-based Customers Bank, one of the only crypto-friendly banks in the U.S., was served with a 13-page regulatory enforcement action by the Federal Reserve related to its digital asset and dollar token […]
May 26, 2023
While crypto’s future in the U.S. remains as shrouded as ever, it’s a different story elsewhere. “The world is truly fragmented now, you hear a different story [everywhere],” Dr. Yan Zhang, co-founder of Web3-native...
May 18, 2023
Innovations that transform the world historically rest on revolutionary, but above all viable, use cases. Utility is instrumental to adoption, and as money movement becomes increasingly digitized, central bank digital currencies...
April 13, 2023
The black swan collapse of FTX in November 2022 severely rattled global confidence in crypto. It also increased the scrutiny of U.S. regulators, though no new laws impacting the industry...
December 02, 2024
Digital assets solutions provider BitGo has debuted a dedicated retail platform. The new platform, announced Monday (Dec. 2), is designed to offer retail customers access to BitGo’s digital asset trading, staking, wallets and qualified custody services. “We are thrilled to launch BitGo’s dedicated retail platform and offer the same white-glove, crypto-native solutions to retail investors […]
September 26, 2024
Worldpay is reportedly in talks with blockchains about becoming a validator and verifying blockchain transactions. The payments provider aims to do so to better understand how digital ledgers operate and...
September 25, 2024
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) successfully completed a pilot using programmable payments with JPM Coin through Onyx by J.P. Morgan. This programmability enables payments to be triggered at specific times...
September 20, 2024
PayPal Ventures has announced an additional investment in Chaos Labs, a company providing blockchain risk management. A Friday (Sept. 20) press release announcing the move did not report the amount...
