Latin American exchange Mercado Bitcoin is teaming with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) on one of the nine projects in the LIFT Challenge Real Digital, a collaborative environment hosted by the Central Bank of Brazil and the National Federation of Associations of Central Bank Servers....
Today in the connected economy, vehicle subscription service Autonomy partners with Equifax to use the credit bureau’s technology to let customers subscribe using their smartphones. Also, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) and MoneyGram International Inc. (MG) have teamed up with Techstars to launch a mentorship...
Business-to-business (B2B) payment and financing platform for emerging markets Tribal Credit is teaming up with Latin American crypto exchange Bitso and the Stellar Development Foundation to develop a new platform to facilitate cross-border B2B payments, according to a press release. Using Tribal Credit’s new cross-border...
PYMNTS research finds that nearly 60% of consumers making cross-border remittances in the past year increased such payments under the pandemic, and, with U.S. consumers sending some $76 billion annually in remittances to people in other countries, the potential to reduce the cost of these...
October 01, 2021
Cross-border transactions are picking up steam, especially amid the pandemic. As many as 32% of cross-border remittances are sent to friends and family in need. Nearly 41 million U.S. consumers sent money abroad in the last 12 months, and more than half have increased the frequency of those transactions and the amount of money that […]
September 28, 2021
With any disruptive technology there is both promise and peril — the intrigue of innovation and the risk that it all goes wrong, endangering its own users, perhaps even giving...
September 21, 2021
El Salvador’s grand bitcoin experiment, embracing what is arguably the granddaddy of cryptocurrencies as legal tender, is one that has had its share of turbulence. In the lightning quick three...
September 07, 2021
Blockchain may be among the buzzier of buzzwords as 2021’s end is in sight and 2022 looms near. At a high level, the shared, immutable ledgers have the potential to...
May 24, 2022
Latin American exchange Mercado Bitcoin is teaming with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) on one of the nine projects in the LIFT Challenge Real Digital, a collaborative environment hosted by the Central Bank of Brazil and the National Federation of Associations of Central Bank Servers. The projects will explore use cases for a central bank […]
December 10, 2021
Business-to-business (B2B) payment and financing platform for emerging markets Tribal Credit is teaming up with Latin American crypto exchange Bitso and the Stellar Development Foundation to develop a new platform...
October 06, 2021
MoneyGram has announced that is be partnering with the Stellar Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization, to enable cash funding and payout in local currency for consumers using U.S. Dollar Coin...
May 25, 2021
The Stellar Development Foundation has announced a $15 million investment in Airtm, a Mexican blockchain and bank-connected digital wallet and peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange platform, according to a press release. Airtm...
