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More digital assets are moving into lending strategies, turning stablecoin and cryptocurrency holdings into credit exposure for investors seeking yield. The growth shows how the uses for digital assets are expanding. Stablecoins and other tokens sit in wallets, move through payments or are deployed as...
JPMorganChase is reportedly expanding its blockchain payments footprint by bringing its deposit token to Ethereum. JPM Coin will now be available to the bank’s institutional clients on the Ethereum network, JPMorgan representatives told Bloomberg News Monday (Oct. 19). Emma Landriault, global head of Kinexys Labs at JPMorgan’s blockchain...
Credit unions could find a more receptive audience for digital currencies by offering members something they already recognize: a digital wallet. That’s the opportunity outlined in “Digital Currency at the Credit Union: The Gap Between Interest and Access,” a May PYMNTS Intelligence report produced in...
Last week, cryptocurrency hardware wallet company Ledger said it was investigating a hack that drained $90 million from its devices. As Bloomberg News reported Sunday (Oct. 18), this reprsents the latest example of a vulnerability in what was once believed to be the safest tool...
A federal judge refused to overturn a $5 million settlement that cryptocurrency exchange Gemini reached with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in January 2025 and has already paid, CoinDesk reported Friday (Oct. 16). The CFTC has since said that it never should have brought the...
Cross-border payments carry a working capital cost before money reaches the recipient. Payment providers frequently need funds available in advance to make payouts in other markets. For a company operating across currencies and time zones, that can mean maintaining cash in multiple bank, settlement or...
Stablecoin issuer Circle plans to enter 40 new markets around the world, Circle CEO and Chairman Jeremy Allaire told Reuters in a report posted Friday (Oct. 16). Circle has seen growing demand for stablecoins from individuals and businesses in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents’ growing use of cryptocurrency to purchase digital services is pointing toward a practical market for automated payments: transactions so small and frequent that conventional card processing becomes uneconomic. But the scale of genuinely autonomous commerce remains harder to establish than headline...
Privy, a Stripe-owned company that helps businesses build cryptocurrency wallets, partnered with Ripple to bring its wallets to the XRPL blockchain, Privy said in a Tuesday (Oct. 13) blog post. The collaboration will make it easier for developers to build payments and agentic experiences on...