When it comes to payment rails innovation, financial service providers can either improve upon existing infrastructure, or build entirely new rails altogether. This week’s look at the latest innovation initiatives finds a big push for the latter. Between the Office of the Comptroller of the...
According to Blue Star Capital, its investee company SatoshiPay has launched a new B2B payments platform to speed up cross-border payments, Proactive reported. The platform, called DTransfer, is built on SatoshiPay’s blockchain technology and the Stellar network, and it touts “speed, cost and transparency” as...
Whether payments industry stakeholders are moving to develop entirely new infrastructure to improve payments, or to develop new capabilities upon existing infrastructure to make progress, this week’s look at payment rail innovation reflects a focus on industry collaboration to take steps toward faster payments ubiquity....
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has made a $550,000 strategic investment to go toward SatoshiPay‘s development of a B2B cross-border payments solution and its digital wallets, according to a press release. SDF’s investment came by way of convertible loan notes and was the third investment...
December 15, 2020
BitPay, which is the world’s largest provider of bitcoin and cryptocurrency services, has announced that mobile payments app Slide will now add cryptocurrency as a payment option, according to a press release. Slide, which was created by the PayPal-backed Raise Marketplace, will allow people paying with crypto to earn 5 percent cash back when paying […]
