Cross-border payments company Nium has debuted a stablecoin-focused funding program. USDC funding lets businesses finance their Nium accounts with the USDC stablecoin and pay out in fiat, thus extending the company’s payout network to businesses holding stablecoins, the company announced Thursday (Aug. 27). “For years,...
Circle’s CEO has reportedly responded to criticism over how his company handles illicit funds. During a press conference in Seoul, Jeremy Allaire said the stablecoin issuer does not freeze wallets unless it has a formal legal basis, CoinDesk reported Monday (April 13). He characterized Circle’s...
Circle has launched Circle Payments Network (CPN) Managed Payments, a new stablecoin settlement solution. The new offering, announced by the stablecoin issuer in a news release Wednesday (April 8), lets banks, payment service providers, FinTechs and global enterprises enjoy the “speed and efficiency” of regulated digital dollars without...
Circle Internet Group and Sasai Fintech, a pan-African digital payments solution provider, have partnered to explore applications for Circle’s USDC stablecoin across Africa. Sasai Fintech, a business of Cassava Technologies, operates across key payment corridors and offers a suite of digital financial services that enables...
June 05, 2025
Stablecoins have gone public in the U.S. On Thursday (June 5), Circle Internet Financial, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “CRCL,” and did so with a bang, tripling in price by the day’s close and making its founder a paper billionaire. After pricing […]
April 01, 2025
Crypto is going mainstream in America, and it’s not an April Fools’ joke. In a move that underscores the evolving and even productive relationship between traditional finance and the cryptocurrency...
January 14, 2025
Meeting customer needs is an imperative for financial institutions aiming to stay competitive. But innovations often run into the elephant in the room: outdated and incompatible banking tech stacks. Offering...
May 19, 2023
To access central bank accounts in the European Union (EU) today, electronic money token (EMT) issuers, and by extension all electronic money institutions (EMIs), have no choice but to rely...
September 10, 2026
Coinbase’s CEO is reportedly touting stablecoin payments as a key revenue driver for the cryptocurrency exchange. The company is working with banks, FinTechs and other businesses to move more payment activity into stablecoins, Brian Armstrong said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore Thursday (Sept. 10), projecting that the $300 billion market for the coins […]
August 30, 2026
Cross-border payments company Nium has debuted a stablecoin-focused funding program. USDC funding lets businesses finance their Nium accounts with the USDC stablecoin and pay out in fiat, thus extending the...
April 13, 2026
Circle’s CEO has reportedly responded to criticism over how his company handles illicit funds. During a press conference in Seoul, Jeremy Allaire said the stablecoin issuer does not freeze wallets...
April 08, 2026
Circle has launched Circle Payments Network (CPN) Managed Payments, a new stablecoin settlement solution. The new offering, announced by the stablecoin issuer in a news release Wednesday (April 8), lets banks, payment service...
