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May 12, 2025
Citi: Stablecoin Market Could Hit $3.7 Trillion by 2030

Could the stablecoin market someday surpass the larger cryptocurrency ecosystem? New regulatory efforts promoting the integration of the dollar-pegged coins into the mainstream economy might soon make that happen, CoinDesk...


May 12, 2025
Report: Meta Considering Using Stablecoins for Cross-Border Payments

Meta is reportedly considering adopting stablecoins as a way to make cross-border payments. The company is in discussions with crypto firms and is likely to use more than one type...


May 12, 2025
Currency.com CEO: Geopolitical Uncertainty Drives Global Demand for Stablecoins

As global trade reels from ongoing disruptions, businesses and institutions are being forced to reimagine how value moves across borders. At the same time, traditional finance is undergoing a technological...


May 09, 2025
Ramp to Launch Stablecoin-Backed Corporate Cards for Cross-Border Transactions

Ramp will expand its issuing partnership with Stripe to launch stablecoin-backed corporate cards designed to facilitate cross-border transactions. The combination of stablecoin-backed cards and Ramp’s corporate card and financial operations platform...


May 08, 2025
US Senate Blocks Stablecoin Legislation Over Trump Memecoin Controversy

A bill to promote stablecoins was blocked in the U.S. Senate on Thursday (May 8) over political disagreements and controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures, according to reporting from...


May 07, 2025
Coinbase Debuts Protocol Allowing AI to Make Web Purchases With...

Coinbase introduced a way to streamline internet-native stablecoin payments. The cryptocurrency exchange’s x402 is an open standard that employs the original HTTP “402 Payment Required” status code to embed stablecoin...


May 07, 2025
HSBC Offers Trade Finance Tool to American Business Customers

HSBC has introduced a way to help American clients pay import duties. HSBC TradePay for Import Duties is designed to simplify import duty payments while helping businesses optimize working capital, the...


May 07, 2025
764K Trump Meme Coin Purchasers Reportedly Lost Money 

President Donald Trump’s election last year was good news for the cryptocurrency industry. Smaller investors in the Trump-branded $TRUMP meme coin introduced earlier this year apparently haven’t been as fortunate....


May 06, 2025
Derailed House Hearing Leaves Crypto Market Structure Hanging in Balance

Donald Trump promised to transform the U.S. into the “crypto capital of the planet,” and he will need cryptocurrency legislation for his administration to do it. But while bills for both...


Blockchain Payments - December 2022

Nine in 10 of the world’s central banks are pursuing digital currency projects, but private sector expertise and buy-in will be pivotal to their success. In this month’s “Blockchain Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with Algorand, Anish Jain, CEO of WadzPay, explains how blockchain’s interoperability with legacy banking systems is the key to its adoption.

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain And Cross-Border Payments - February 2022
Banks Help Corporates Overcome Their Blockchain Regulatory Concerns Businesses see blockchain payments technology as important to streamlining cross-border payments, but more than half worry that it comes with regulatory risks. PYMNTS’ new Cryptocurrency, Blockchain And Cross-Border Payments playbook, a Circle collaboration, surveyed 250 FIs to examine how they're using compliance and regulatory tools to ease businesses’ blockchain concerns and unlock the technology’s benefits.