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September 22, 2022
Liverpool FC Expands NFT Fantasy Sports Partnership With Sorare

English soccer team Liverpool Football Club (Liverpool FC) is deepening its partnership with French company Sorare, which operates player-owned fantasy sports games that issue virtual collectible cards as non-fungible tokens...


September 22, 2022
DOJ Asks Congress for Tools to Limit NFT Money-Laundering Risk

Down at the very bottom of the crypto crime report the Justice Department issued last week was a request that could make it a lot harder to buy and sell...


September 22, 2022
Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Asking Backers for Up To $1B at...

Sam Bankman-Fried is reportedly in talks with investors to follow up a January funding round with a bigger infusion of capital for his cryptocurrency conglomerate FTX. The CEO and founder...


September 21, 2022
Today in Crypto: US House Stablecoin Bill Won’t Include Digital...

Central Bank of Iran said it will begin a pilot launch of its central bank digital currency, the crypto-rial, on Thursday (Sept. 22), a press release said. The crypto-rial’s goal...


September 21, 2022
Nasdaq to Launch Crypto Custody Service for Institutional Investors

Nasdaq has announced a new business, Nasdaq Digital Assets, which will promote institutional participation in digital assets, a press release said Tuesday (Sept. 20). This will provide “trusted and institutional-grade...


September 21, 2022
Smart Crypto Policy Can Protect Dollar’s Dominance, Experts Tell House...

If the U.S. is to maintain its economic and political leadership in the 21st century, one thing it cannot do is lose control of the international arena. That was the...


September 20, 2022
Today in Crypto: Robinhood Adds USD Coin to Offerings; MicroStrategy...

Robinhood Markets has added USD Coin stablecoin to its retail-focused crypto offerings, according to a report from Seeking Alpha on Tuesday. Users will now be able to send and receive...


September 20, 2022
Crypto Lobby Courting Friends — and Foes — at the...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s announcement last week that he is putting a political scorecard on the top U.S. crypto exchange’s app is a pretty good indication of how much attention...


September 20, 2022
Bitcoin Wallet Bumps Bakkt out of PYMNTS’ September Crypto Wallet...

In a month dominated by The Merge, in which the No. 2 blockchain, Ethereum, switched from its energy-hungry and slow consensus mechanism for adding new data and minting new ether...


AML/KYC
How Gemini Balances User Privacy With AML And KYC Compliance Cryptocurrencies’ anonymous nature makes them popular, but crypto exchange platforms are still required to collect buyers’ personal data for AML and KYC compliance. In the “AML/KYC Tracker,” a PYMNTS and Trulioo collaboration, Elena Hughes, chief compliance officer at Gemini, explains how platforms can selectively collect data to ensure user privacy and adhere to regulations.  
The Corporate Treasury Shift: Asset Allocation And The New Cryptocurrency Option
More Banks Turn to Crypto, Blockchain to Help Corporates Drive Global Growth Fifty-eight percent of multinationals that do business in six or more countries use cryptocurrencies in their day-to-day operations. A new PYMNTS study of 250 multinational financial institutions (FIs), sponsored by Circle, examines how their corporate customers are using blockchain and crypto to manage liquidity, make payments and drive global growth — and the digital currency imperative it implies for FIs that wish to retain those corporate relationships.