May 06, 2025
Visa Invests in BVNK’s Efforts to Promote Stablecoin Payments

Stabelcoin infrastructure platform BVNK received an investment from Visa. The new capital comes on the heels of a $50 million Series B funding round in December, according to a Tuesday...

May 06, 2025
States Halting Efforts to Create Strategic Bitcoin Reserves

Soon after taking office, President Donald Trump floated plans for a strategic bitcoin reserve. It was part of a larger push by the president, backed by the digital asset sector, to...

May 05, 2025
Currency Matching Innovations Critical as Tariffs Shake Up Cross-Border B2B...

Tariffs have thrown the global trade order into a new era of fragmentation. On Friday (May 2), Temu stopped shipping products from China directly to the U.S., while just days earlier...

May 05, 2025
Arculus CPO Sees ‘Fundamental Shift’ in Payments Landscape

Insights come from listening to customers, CompoSecure/Arculus Chief Product and Innovation Officer Dr. Adam Lowe writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “The Listening Economy: How Customer Conversations Are Transforming Financial...

May 04, 2025
Arizona Governor Shoots Down Plans for State Bitcoin Reserve

Arizona’s governor has vetoed legislation that would have let the state invest in cryptocurrency. “The Arizona State Retirement System is one of the strongest in the nation because it makes...

May 04, 2025
Crypto Companies Coming to America as Regulators Relax

The world’s largest cryptocurrency options exchange is reportedly planning to enter the American market. Dubai-based Deribit is “actively reassessing potential opportunities” in the U.S., CEO Luuk Strijers said in an...

May 02, 2025
Are Crypto Markets Going Mainstream? What Treasury Execs Should Know

The first publicly traded bitcoin financial services company rang the Nasdaq opening bell on Friday (May 2). The invitation given to Fold Holdings Inc. is just one signal among many, that,...

May 02, 2025
MoneyGram Launches API for Embedding Crypto On/Off-Ramp Functionality

MoneyGram has launched an application programming interface (API) designed to make it easy for developers to embed crypto on/off-ramp functionality. With the new MoneyGram Ramps, wallets, exchanges and FinTech apps can...

May 02, 2025
Peeking Under the USDT Hood: Tether Releases Partial Audit Amid...

The cryptocurrency market has virtually no regulatory oversight or transparency. Those are features, not bugs, of the system. However, as institutional interest in blockchain grows, and the regulatory stance in...