Explore more conversations like this From the Block. For most of the cryptocurrency industry’s history, lawyers occupied a familiar role: identify risks, interpret regulations and tell companies what they couldn’t do. But Mike Katz, partner in Manatt’s Financial Services Group, told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster and...
There’s something rare happening across the digital asset landscape: it’s quiet. The sector’s typical drumbeat of disruptive headlines has been dampened by bitcoin’s sinking price and the broader crypto market’s ongoing contractions, while the institutional side of blockchain remains stuck in a wait-and-see standstill as...
Here’s the paradox nobody’s talking about in the AI-and-jobs debate. The workers most afraid of being replaced are the ones least likely to be. Knowledge workers, including analysts, copywriters and coders are squarely in artificial intelligence’s crosshairs. AI models can already draft their memos, crunch...
Here is the question nobody in polite payments circles wants to ask out loud: Do the card networks need stablecoins—or do stablecoins need the card networks? It sounds almost impertinent. Stablecoins were supposed to be the insurgents. Peer-to-peer. Borderless. Frictionless. The whole point was to...
July 16, 2026
Explore more conversations like this From the Block. The blockchain industry has spent years promising to replace the filing cabinet to either make illiquid assets tradable or provide an immutable record in the event a natural disaster wipes out the paper record. Dubai may have finally found a filing cabinet worth replacing. At least that’s […]
June 18, 2026
Explore more conversations like this From the Block. For most of the cryptocurrency industry’s history, lawyers occupied a familiar role: identify risks, interpret regulations and tell companies what they couldn’t do....
June 12, 2026
There’s something rare happening across the digital asset landscape: it’s quiet. The sector’s typical drumbeat of disruptive headlines has been dampened by bitcoin’s sinking price and the broader crypto market’s...
February 26, 2026
Here is the question nobody in polite payments circles wants to ask out loud: Do the card networks need stablecoins—or do stablecoins need the card networks? It sounds almost impertinent....
July 16, 2019
Apple is reportedly planning to fund a set of exclusive podcasts for its audio service in a bid to compete with Spotify and Stitcher. Sources told Bloomberg that the move aims to “keep competitors Spotify and Stitcher at bay” via the funding of specific podcasts from media companies, as well as through exclusive deals. Executives […]
March 26, 2019
Spotify Technology, producer of the audio streaming subscription service, announced Tuesday (March 26) it is acquiring Parcast, a storytelling-driven podcast studio, for an undisclosed sum. In a press release, Spotify said...
July 27, 2018
Spotify’s second quarter as a public company shows that it has increased its paid subscriptions by 40 percent, but it lost $458 million in revenue. According to reports, Spotify now...
October 17, 2017
Might seamless cross-border payments be among the holy grails of payments? Think of the complexities: multiple currencies, time zones, financial institutions, regulations … the list goes on. Speed and simplicity...
