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Crypto Banks Hit Reset While Shedding Risky Innovation Ambitions
Cryptocurrency // January 25, 2023

Smaller banks that sought to serve once-hot sectors like cryptocurrency are now exiting those verticals. This, as long-time crypto industry partner Silvergate Bank reports steep quarterly losses tied to $8.1 billion in withdrawals while it looks to reshuffle its digital asset business offerings, and Voyager...

Global Primex Debuts VLoad Virtual Payment Platform With Metropolitan Commercial Bank
Digital Payments // July 12, 2022

Digital payments company Global Primex on Tuesday (July 12) debuted online payment platform VLoad in partnership with New York-based Metropolitan Commercial Bank, according to a joint press release. VLoad offers consumers high levels of privacy and security and allows merchants in the VLoad Merchant Network...

Modern Treasury, Metropolitan Commercial Bank Team on Automated Payments
B2B Payments // November 09, 2021

Modern Treasury, a payments operations software provider, is working with Metropolitan Commercial Bank (MCB) in order to provide automated payment options to companies, according to a press release. The Modern Treasury platform allows companies to make and manage payments through a dashboard or application programming...

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Crypto Banks Hit Reset While Shedding Risky Innovation Ambitions

January 25, 2023
Smaller banks that sought to serve once-hot sectors like cryptocurrency are now exiting those verticals. This, as long-time crypto industry partner Silvergate Bank reports steep quarterly losses tied to $8.1 billion in withdrawals while it looks to reshuffle its digital asset business offerings, and Voyager Digital-servicing Metropolitan Commercial Bank and FTX-linked Moonstone Bank have both […]

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Metropolitan Commercial Bank to Pay $15 Million Penalty for Fraud Oversight

October 19, 2023
Metropolitan Commercial Bank (MCB) has agreed to pay a penalty of $15 million following an investigation by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). Superintendent of Financial Services Adrienne A. Harris announced that MCB had failed to properly oversee its MovoCash Digital Prepaid Visa Card Program, leading to fraud actors diverting pandemic unemployment […]

Global Primex Debuts VLoad Virtual Payment Platform With Metropolitan Commercial Bank

July 12, 2022
Digital payments company Global Primex on Tuesday (July 12) debuted online payment platform VLoad in partnership with New York-based Metropolitan Commercial Bank, according to a joint press release. VLoad offers...