September 30, 2022
Short-Term Crypto Uncertainty is Long-Term Credit Union Opportunity
While the volatility and complexity surrounding cryptocurrency has caused given many investors second thoughts or cold feet, it’s this very reason that some financial industry observers say it precisely the...
September 29, 2022
Inflation, Rising Bank Rates Driving Crypto Lending in LatAm
Some Latin Americans are turning to cryptocurrency to access credit as a way to combat the difficulty of borrowing money from traditional banks there. The problem has become especially apparent...
September 29, 2022
ECB Holds Off on P2P Digital Euro Transactions
A digital euro might be based on blockchain technology, but it will require middlemen to validate transactions, at least to begin with. The core purpose of blockchain cryptocurrency, as described...
September 29, 2022
Crypto Weekly: Platforms Win Regulatory Approval in EMEA
After years of operating a lucrative business model from offshore tax havens with little or no regulatory oversight, 2022 has been the year that crypto trading platforms have joined the...
September 29, 2022
PSPs Are Making Stablecoin Payments a Reality
It’s been easy to say that all the dire predictions about stablecoins taking over payments and pushing out national currencies were wildly overblown as their actual use outside of crypto...
September 29, 2022
FIs Seek Expert Insights on How Best to Tame Crypto
When Chainalysis helped U.S. authorities track down and retrieve $30 million in crypto stolen in March by a very sophisticated North Korean government-sponsored hacking group, the work the blockchain data...
September 28, 2022
Today in Crypto: Crypto Stronger Without ‘Tourists,’ VC Atomico Partner...
Web3 gaming platform AQUA has debuted a marketplace for trading in-game assets, a Coindesk report said. The startup has also announced a $10 million investment from hedge fund billionaire Steve...
September 28, 2022
Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts Can Cut Escrow Costs, Prevent Mortgage Fraud
When talking about crypto’s use in real estate, most people think about buying and selling property with bitcoins or tokenizing and fractionalizing property titles via digital assets or NFTs. But...
September 28, 2022
Crypto Payments Must Be as Easy as Using a Card...
Welcome to “The Merchants Guide to Accepting Crypto: The Questions to Ask,” a PYMNTS series aimed at helping merchants, big and small, online and in-store, who want to accept crypto...