Privy, a Stripe-owned company that helps businesses build cryptocurrency wallets, partnered with Ripple to bring its wallets to the XRPL blockchain, Privy said in a Tuesday (Oct. 13) blog post. The collaboration will make it easier for developers to build payments and agentic experiences on...
Ledger is asking resellers and distributors in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong to suspend sales of its cryptocurrency hardware wallets while it investigates an incident in which someone in the distribution chain tampered with the devices and later drained crypto from them, the company said...
Kraken parent company Payward is expanding its banking efforts by acquiring Finland-based Saldo Bank. Payward says the deal, announced Wednesday (Oct. 14), marks the next step in the development of Payward Banking, which it calls the “money layer” of the company’s financial infrastructure platform. “Payward...
FinTech Bakkt turned to Thredd to launch a card-as-a-service program in the United States designed to settle in stablecoins, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 13) press release. The partnership will see Thredd’s card processing and credit infrastructure extend Bakkt’s settlement rails into consumer credit products...
September 24, 2026
Stablecoins spent years trying to prove they could move money better than banks, and they have succeeded. Announcements this week from banks, card networks, cryptocurrency exchanges and central banks show why that capability reveals more about stablecoins than it does about the banks themselves. In the span of several days, SoFi Technologies began using its […]
September 23, 2026
Credit unions may be debating how much member demand exists for cryptocurrency, but some institutions have already moved well beyond that debate. PYMNTS Intelligence’s August 2026 “Credit Union Innovation Readiness”...
September 22, 2026
The digital euro is moving out of central bank planning and into checkout, with implications for merchants in the United States and payments providers. The European Central Bank opened applications...
September 21, 2026
Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Jennifer Rosario Digital assets can reach millions of consumers faster than the security practices surrounding them can mature. Digital wallets and cryptocurrency products have...
October 14, 2026
Brooklyn’s district attorney’s office says it has disrupted a multinational cryptocurrency fraud operation targeting Russians in the U.S. The investigation by the office’s Virtual Currency Unit (VCU) and the FBI culminated in the seizure of 241 web domains and 112 servers, which revealed the millions of dollars lost by the Russian community in Brooklyn, New […]
October 14, 2026
Privy, a Stripe-owned company that helps businesses build cryptocurrency wallets, partnered with Ripple to bring its wallets to the XRPL blockchain, Privy said in a Tuesday (Oct. 13) blog post....
October 14, 2026
Ledger is asking resellers and distributors in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong to suspend sales of its cryptocurrency hardware wallets while it investigates an incident in which someone in the...
October 14, 2026
Kraken parent company Payward is expanding its banking efforts by acquiring Finland-based Saldo Bank. Payward says the deal, announced Wednesday (Oct. 14), marks the next step in the development of...
