Volt, the leading open payments gateway, has partnered with Mercuryo to help the crypto payments company offer open banking payments to their two million global customers. The real-time account-to-account payments (A2A) will provide Mercuryo wallet users, alongside their business partners, with single-click payment solutions via fiat. The partnership signifies another milestone use case for open banking payments, but […]

FIS has teamed with Fireblocks to accelerate crypto adoption within the capital markets industry by enabling firms of all types to access the largest crypto trading venues, liquidity providers, lending desks and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Leveraging the Fireblocks platform, FIS capital markets clients can move, store and issue digital assets, and gain access to self-custody […]

  eCurrency, a security technology solution provider, has announced a joint commitment with cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem, to integrate decentralised finance and Web3 with CBDC. eCurrency enables central banks to mint and issue CBDC bearer instruments to financial intermediaries in compliance with the existing legal and operational […]

  Strike has announced its integration with Shopify, unlocking the ability for eligible U.S. Shopify merchants to receive bitcoin payments from customers globally as U.S. dollars. The integration for Shopify merchants, designed with ease of use in mind, allows merchants to easily accept bitcoin payments as dollars. With the Strike integration, Shopify merchants can accept […]

  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 […]

Hashdex has announced the approval of the world’s first decentralized finance (DeFi) ETF. The ETF seeks to offer investors diversified, secure, and regulated exposure in all segments of the DeFi ecosystem and will be listed on the Brazilian stock exchange, B3, under the ticker symbol DEFI11 on February 17, 2022. “As the largest crypto asset […]

NYDIG has announced that its subsidiary Bottlepay, a Bitcoin-based global payments company, has been granted registration as a Cryptoasset Business from the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). FCA registration requires firms to demonstrate that they comply with the UK’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations. Businesses dealing with cryptoassets must register with the FCA to […]

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 […]

DeFinity, an institutional digital asset ECN and DeFi marketplace for fiat Foreign Exchange, Cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies, partners with cryptocurrency copy-trading platform Alpha Impact to distribute AI powered market anomaly signals covering a dozen digital assets. Alpha Impact is a DeFi-enabled social trading platform that lets users find and copy a top trader […]