Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Bitcoin Winning Middle Market Appeal for Cross Border Payments

Bitcoin Winning Middle Market Appeal for Cross Border Payments
Bitcoin Winning Middle Market Appeal for Cross Border Payments
October 24, 2022  |  Cross-border Payments

There are a lot of potential points of friction or failure in cross-border payments between businesses, ranging from slow finality and high costs to counterparty...

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Fidelity Ups Digital Asset Hiring as Crypto Firms Struggle
Fidelity Ups Digital Asset Hiring as Crypto Firms Struggle
October 23, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Fidelity Investments will hire 100 more workers for its digital assets operations as it expands on its efforts to lure talent away from struggling crypto...

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Turkish President Says Country Aims to Build Metaverse
Turkish President Says Country Aims to Build Metaverse
October 21, 2022  |  Metaverse

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reportedly showed some openness to the use of blockchain and some aspects of cryptocurrency in a speech, following the country’s...

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Linking Digital Twins to Make an Industrial Metaverse
Linking Digital Twins to Make an Industrial Metaverse
October 21, 2022  |  Metaverse

In this second article in PYMNTS industrial metaverse series about the fledgling use of private enterprise virtual realities, we’ll look at how companies are building...

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Bitcoin Popularity Fading Further in El Salvador
Bitcoin Popularity Fading Further in El Salvador
October 21, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Two-thirds of Salvadoran citizens consider President Nayib Bukele’s bitcoin policy a failure and more than three-quarters have never used it, German public news outlet Deutsche...

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DeFi Regulation Needs More Than MiCA, EC Hears
DeFi Regulation Needs More Than MiCA, EC Hears
October 21, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The European Union’s (EU) Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation isn’t broad enough to cover decentralized finance, a finance professor said during a presentation to...

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Amendments Seek to Ensure UK Finance Bill Unambiguous on Crypto Assets
Amendments Seek to Ensure UK Finance Bill Unambiguous on Crypto Assets
October 21, 2022  |  Regulation

The Financial Services and Markets Bill is the centerpiece of the U.K. government’s post-Brexit regulatory architecture for financial services. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Ripple Claims Round Win in SEC Lawsuit Defining Cryptos as Securities
Ripple Claims Round Win in SEC Lawsuit Defining Cryptos as Securities
October 21, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Cross-border payments firm Ripple has claimed it won a victory in its long-running legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that could help...

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Paystand Allows Users of Network, Card to Get Revenue Next Business Day
Paystand Allows Users of Network, Card to Get Revenue Next Business Day
October 21, 2022  |  B2B Payments

Blockchain-enabled B2B payments firm Paystand has announced that businesses using the Paystand Network and the DeFi Corporate Card can now access their revenue the next...

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