Fintech Weekly

JULY 15, 2025

Recent News Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg: exploring blockchain’s full potential Cassiopeia Services If there is one topic setting tongues wagging in FinTech, it is blockchain. Because of its distributed ledger system, Blockchain. Because of its distributed ledger system, Blockchain. Innovative demos.

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Fintech Weekly

JULY 27, 2025

Recent News Trump Media Expands into Finance with Truth.Fi: A Strategic Play in Bitcoin, Energy, and U.S. Read More Blockchain Life 2025 October 28th, 2025 The 15th Blockchain Life Forum is the highly anticipated crypto event of 2025, drawing over 15,000 attendees, including leading figures. 50%+ from financial institutions.

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Fintech Weekly

JULY 17, 2025

If your business is built around digital commodities (think Bitcoin or similar assets) you’ll register with the CFTC. Recent News Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg: exploring blockchain’s full potential Cassiopeia Services If there is one topic setting tongues wagging in FinTech, it is blockchain. 50+ speakers.

Blockchain

Fintech Weekly

JUNE 5, 2025

Read More Blockchain Life 2025 October 28th, 2025 The 15th Blockchain Life Forum is the highly anticipated crypto event of 2025, drawing over 15,000 attendees, including leading figures. Crypto Recent News Why Math Is Important in Today’s Technologies How mathematics is used in tech? 50%+ from financial institutions. Innovative demos.

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Fintech Weekly

JULY 10, 2025

Additionally, the rise in digital currencies has contributed to more banks investing in blockchain for transaction purposes and related security. Increasingly, banks are willing to enter the blockchain space. High-profile companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and HSBC are leading the way to blockchain integration.

Technology

Fintech Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2025

Full Article Coinbase and AmEx Launch Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card for U.S. Subscribers Rosalia Mazza Coinbase and American Express unveil a bitcoin rewards credit card for Coinbase One subscribers, offering up to 4% back on. The 11th edition of the European Blockchain Convention is heading to a new. Innovative demos.

Economy

Fintech Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

If you access the Bitcoin calculator on Paybis , you can see the asset’s value in more than 45 fiat currencies. Apr 7th Cryptocurrency Trump Establishes Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in Landmark Executive Order President Donald Trump has signed an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, positioning the U.S.

Bitcoin

Fintech Weekly

JULY 31, 2025

Full Article PayPal to Expand PYUSD Stablecoin to Stellar for Faster, Cheaper Global Payments Rosalia Mazza PayPal plans to launch PYUSD on the Stellar blockchain, expanding its stablecoin's utility for real-world payments, remittances, and financing—pending regulatory. trillion wealth fund posted a $39.7B Innovative demos. 50+ speakers.

AI

Fintech Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

As technologies like AI and blockchain challenge the traditional lanes of finance, cross-disciplinary knowledge is becoming critical at every level—policy, ops, compliance, engineering. On skills, professionals need to have fluency when it comes to emerging technologies like AI, and blockchain. 50%+ from financial institutions.

FinTech

Fintech Weekly

JULY 13, 2025

Personal Financial Advisors, once a privilege of ultra-high net worth customers, can now be democratized by AI Agents and be made available to a wider customer base. Because of its distributed ledger system, Blockchain. Read More Finovate Asia 500+ senior decision makers. 50%+ from financial institutions. Innovative demos.

AI

Fintech Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Full Article Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg: exploring blockchain’s full potential Cassiopeia Services If there is one topic setting tongues wagging in FinTech, it is blockchain. Because of its distributed ledger system, Blockchain. Full Article Next Conferences Finovate Asia 500+ senior decision makers.

FinTech

Fintech Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

Read More Blockchain Life 2025 October 28th, 2025 The 15th Blockchain Life Forum is the highly anticipated crypto event of 2025, drawing over 15,000 attendees, including leading figures. Crypto Recent News Why Math Is Important in Today’s Technologies How mathematics is used in tech? 50%+ from financial institutions. Innovative demos.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Crypto research site Diar claims that startups in the digital currency and blockchain space have notched roughly $3.9 In addition, the report noted that the average size of investments in the blockchain and crypto space rose by $1 million this year. billion in funding via venture capital (VC) investments, CoinDesk reported.

Advisors

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In other news, South Korea’s Shinhan Bank has started to tap into blockchain technology for its “daily working process,” according to Cryptovest. While the outlet said there wasn’t information on the “scale” of the bank’s use of the blockchain, it has piloted DLT through an interest rate swap transaction in November. as of 6:40 p.m.

Bitcoin

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Is there a run on bitcoin? Some British banks are allegedly stockpiling bitcoin because they know that DDoS hackers will steer clear after being paid off. For the average consumer who may or not be aware of the value of the bitcoin — which today is hovering around $682 — or where they can access them, that could change.

ATM

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Denis Pitcher, chief FinTech advisor to the Premier of Bermuda, told CoinDesk on Sunday (Feb. The Google Play store is once again offering the mobile game Bitcoin Blast that gives users bitcoin to play with, CoinDesk reported on Friday (Jan. SBI is considered among the most active companies in crypto and blockchain.

Bitcoin

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Zermatt, a ski resort town of 5,400 residents in Switzerland, has decreed that cryptocurrency bitcoin can now be utilized to pay taxes and other government services, Bloomberg reported. Mayor Romy Biner-Hauser confirmed that her residents can now pay for an array of traditional government services using bitcoin.

Bitcoin

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It has not been a great week for the price of bitcoin, or really any cryptocurrency for that matter. The price of bitcoin has fallen and stayed below $6,000 for the last four days and no one’s predicting a rally anytime soon. Why Bitcoin Busted. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Bitcoin

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

2024 is expected to be a year of innovation for the fintech industry, marked by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), cross-border and real-time payments, cryptocurrency and blockchain, and bundled software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. Lightspeed partners expect this trend to gain even more momentum into 2024.

Innovation

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

SBI Holdings President and CEO Yoshitaka Kitao said in an announcement that the wallet “is an important tool to promote mass adoption of digital assets and blockchain.”. million in bitcoin and digital currency to customers by mistake, Coindesk reported. On another note, a digital currency in South Korea inadvertently sent roughly $5.3

Bitcoin

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

The Hive Project, a company that uses cryptocurrency and Ethereum blockchain for trade financing , has launched its platform. Every invoice is assigned a unique fingerprint, the firm said, by tokenizing each bill and linking them onto the blockchain. The sale will last six weeks, it said.

Cryptocurrency

PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

Some users of the Cash App, which is owned by payments company Square, can now deposit bitcoin, according to reports. Users could previously buy, sell and transfer bitcoin through the app, which is available on both Android and iOS, but now some users can deposit it as well. Square brought in about $65.5

Bitcoin

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Spain’s BBVA — along with partner banks MUFG of Japan and BNP Paribas of France — completed the first syndicated loan on the blockchain. Last week, BBVA and its co-lenders used a private blockchain network to secure a $150 million syndicated loan for Red Eléctrica, the Spanish grid operator.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Crypto payments startup Wyre has acquired Hedgy, a venture-backed bitcoin smart contract development firm. Hedgy co-founder and CEO Matt Slater will join Wyre as an advisor as part of the deal, which is for an undisclosed sum. With that in mind, Wyre will utilize Hedgy’s ability to “navigate” the regulatory space.

Authentication

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

will be able to send bitcoin and ethereum donations to The Salvation Army using the Engiven ’s cryptocurrency donation platform, the release stated. He also encouraged investors to think beyond short-term speculation and consult financial advisors, noting that “there’s a lot more to come.”. Donors throughout the U.S.

Bitcoin

Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Experts and industry insiders hold a bullish outlook on the potential of these technologies to revolutionise finance, including in data-driven markets analysis and wealth management AI advisors. While the potential is evident, practical applications for digital currencies and blockchain technology are still emerging.

APACS

PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

In the midst of today’s retail revolution, blockchain technology is being pushed up to the surface. E-Commerce’s increasing popularity over the last decade is likely the driver of blockchain technology implementation. One of the seemingly largest barriers for banks with blockchain technology are federal-level regulations.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

Digital currency investor Li Xiaolai has reportedly resigned from the position of managing partner at the Hangzhou Xiong’An Blockchain Fund, CoinDesk reported. “The series of defamations from Chen Weixing against myself has brought material and negative impacts on the reputation of Xiong’An Blockchain Fund,” Li said. .

Bitcoin

PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2018

The blockchain hype is real — just ask Long Blockchain — but governments are taking a modest, more realistic approach to the technology. In this week’s Blockchain Tracker , PYMNTS examines the latest government initiatives in the U.S. around blockchain, including the latest from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Congress.

Governance

PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

And this week, so far, is shaping up to be a strong time for bitcoin amid some positive developments, as the popular cryptocurrency reached almost $7,500 mid-Wednesday after falling to below $5,800 at the end of June. was interested in exploring cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that underpins them.

Bitcoin

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The “Fabric Of Our Lives” found itself softly in the hands of blockchain this week. Eighty-eight bales of cotton became part of, arguably, one of the biggest breakthroughs in blockchain this month, all through the first global trade shipment and transaction between independent banks depending on blockchain as a ledger.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The global regulatory framework of cryptocurrencies and blockchain remains either fragmented, vague or simply nonexistent. However, Swiss officials recently took steps to get ahead of the regulatory uncertainty surrounding the world of blockchain, focusing on a particularly large hurdle for companies in the industry.

Cryptocurrency

Payments Source

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Love or hate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Ric Edelman says advisors still must prepare to help clients invest in a "cashless future.".

Advisors

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bitcoin and cryptos offer a prime example, where commerce transactions have yet to be among the use cases for digital coins. Blockchain technology — its genesis as a decentralized ledger, publicly visible but anonymous and once synonymous (but not limited) to cryptos — has fared better. A Case Of Blockchain Fatigue.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

In addition, there will be examination of transfer agents (which help to settle transactions) that are developing blockchain technology. There are as of yet no bitcoin ETFs approved for trading. The decision had originally been scheduled for Dec. 28, but it is now slated for the end of February.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

British finance advisor Neil Liversidge is calling on the government to ban crypto transactions, a CoinTelgraph report says. Liversidge’s reasoning is a common one cited by crypto opponents: the coins, such as bitcoin, have no intrinsic value and could end up being a destabilizing influence on society.

Bitcoin

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Bitcoin and the Cybercrime Boom . The price of bitcoin may be down, and trading activity may have gotten a bit sluggish in the last year, but among at least one demographic group crypto will always be king. According to reports last week, bitcoin-backed crime was at an all-time high last year. Criminal activity accounted for $3.5

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