American Bank has selected the Bakkt® crypto connect solution to enable their bank customers to buy, sell and hold the two largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, bitcoin and Ethereum. American Bank, based in Allentown, PA, continuously works to provide the best, most secure digital banking services to its customers who reside in all 50 states. […]

The government has announced moves that will see stablecoins recognized as a valid form of payment as part of wider plans to make Britain a global hub for cryptoasset technology and investment. Measures include legislating for a ‘financial market infrastructure sandbox’ to help firms innovate, an FCA-led ‘CryptoSprint’, working with the Royal Mint on an […]

CarNow, the automotive industry’s leading digital retailing company, has announced a partnership with Cion Digital providing customers a way to purchase and finance vehicles using cryptocurrency via an integration with CarNow’s Real-Time Retail™ platform. Cion Digital’s ready-to-deploy modular payments and lending platform provides companies with access to all the connectivity, infrastructure and support needed to rapidly deploy […]

Future FinTech Group, a blockchain-based e-commerce business and a fintech service provider, announced that its subsidiary,  FTFT UK Limited, has entered into an agreement with Mastercard to launch of the FTFT Orbit e-money platform and Orbit Debit Mastercard, issued via FTFT UK’s partners. FTFT UK has been working to develop a financial ‘super app’, the […]

Crypto payments company Wirex, has announced the addition of the Polygon blockchain to their non-custodial wallet, as well as the industry leading Wirex app. Users will have access to the benefits of the Polygon blockchain, which joins the Wallet alongside the Ethereum, Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain and Fantom blockchains, and the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains […]

Mastercard has announced the expansion of its new interactive business intelligence platform Mastercard Market Trends in the Middle East and Africa. In the Middle East and Africa (MEA), the platform enables a comparison of over 300 cards from five key markets, access to market reports, analysis of global and regional leading fintechs and thought leadership on key […]

Aliaswire, a provider of digital payment and credit solutions, has announced the addition of a new bank account validation (BAV) solution for banks and their commercial clients. The news comes in advance of the pending enforcement of a new web debit rule which requires ACH originators to make account validation an explicit part of their […]

Taking its purpose of empowering societies another step into the future, Telenor Pakistan is pleased to have hosted at its 345 campuses, a delegation of Blockchain experts from the BSV Blockchain Association. The purpose of the visit was to discuss the possibilities of future collaboration in technologies that can empower every segment of society, through […]

FTFT Capital (“hereinafter referred to as “Future FinTech”, “FTFT” or “the Company”), a leading blockchain-based e-commerce business and a fintech service provider, announced that it has appointed Mr. Ola J. Lind as Chief Strategy Officer of FTFT and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company’s subsidiary, FTFT Capital Investments LLC (“FTFT Capital”). The former Chief […]

Ripple has partnered with the Republic of Palau to explore the country’s first national digital currency and its use cases with the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The partnership will initially focus on developing strategies for cross-border payments and a USD-backed digital currency for Palau. This could see the implementation of the world’s first government-backed national stablecoin in the first […]