Recent technological advances including blockchain, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) have ushered a wave of new private-sector…
Blockchain/Bitcoin
Blockchain technology is yielding tremendous innovation and value creation for consumers and businesses around the world. As the…
Circle, creator of the second largest stablecoin USDC, announced it has raised US$440 million in financing from leading…
Diem Association, a digital currency project previously knows as Facebook’s Libra project, announced that it has dropped its…
Tala, a digital financial services provider in emerging markets, announced a new partnership with Visa to help underbanked…
Paxos, a New York-based regulated blockchain infrastructure platform, announced it has closed a US$ 300 million Series D…
Digital Asset, the creators of the Daml multi-party application platform, announced that it has raised over US$ 120…
Venmo, a mobile payment service owned by PayPal, announced that it now allows more than 70 million of…
Paxos Trust Company, a regulated financial market infrastructure provider, announced Instinet and Credit Suisse settled US listed equities…
Real estate tokenisation platform RealT has chosen Swiss fintech Mt Pelerin’s Bridge Protocol, an open source asset tokenisation…
PayPal announced the launch of Checkout with Crypto, where US customers will be able to choose to check…
Visa announced that it will allow the use of USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin backed by the US…
PayPal announced that it has agreed to acquire Curv to accelerate and expand its initiatives to support cryptocurrencies…
Visa has announced a partnership with First Boulevard, a digitally native neobank focused on building generational wealth for…
The global nature of the blockchain ecosystem is adding a layer of complexity in the fight against crypto-related…
PayPal announced the launch of a new service enabling its customers to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency directly…
WisdomTree Investments, an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) and exchange-traded product (“ETP”) sponsor and asset manager announced its strategic investment…
The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Sveriges…
The use of blockchain distributive ledger technology (blockchain, or DLT) is unlikely to challenge the franchise values of…
The stablecoin market is obviously gaining popularity, growing from 1% of all crypto in 2018 to almost 3%…