A business receives $10 million in stablecoins on Monday, and by Friday, much of it could be back in a bank account. The payment worked. The problem, however, is what needed to happen next. Stablecoin payments may have eliminated hours of settlement friction, but they...
Digital asset platform Blockchain.com has applied for licenses to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the United States. The company announced Tuesday (Oct. 13) that it filed applications with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) seeking a designated contract market (DCM) license and registration as...
House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill said the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission cannot provide the regulatory certainty cryptocurrency markets need through administrative rulemaking alone. Hill acknowledged that both agencies have moved to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets...
Coinbase is expanding its partnership with Samsung to power the stablecoin experience in the electronics company’s digital wallet. The new offering, announced Thursday (Oct. 8), extends a collaboration that began last July, and is set to roll out in the U.S. during the last week of October as Coinbase tries to expand...
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 13, 2026
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 issued by partner banks through its planned credit card-as-a-service program, […]
October 09, 2026
Digital asset platform Blockchain.com has applied for licenses to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the United States. The company announced Tuesday (Oct. 13) that it filed applications with...
October 08, 2026
Coinbase is expanding its partnership with Samsung to power the stablecoin experience in the electronics company’s digital wallet. The new offering, announced Thursday (Oct. 8), extends a collaboration that began last July, and is set to roll...
October 08, 2026
Mastercard and SoFi Tech Solutions teamed to help Mexican FinTech Orbi introduce a cryptocurrency-linked card program, according to a Thursday (Oct. 8) news release. The program will allow Orbi customers...
