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Fintech News
JANUARY 20, 2025
Thinking about diving into the world of cryptocurrency in Singapore? Singapore embraces digital currencies, combining cutting-edge innovation with solid regulations to ensure a safe trading environment. In this guide, well walk you through everything you need to know on how to buy cryptocurrency in Singapore.
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NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Consumers are moving to digital payments and cryptocurrency in droves, and it’s inevitable that more central banks will issue digital forms of currency, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said in a televised interview on Monday (Nov. And I think you’ll have more and more utility happen with cryptocurrencies,” he predicted.
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Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Lunu Pay , a leader in Web3 payment solutions, is excited to announce its collaboration with Ingenico , a global innovator in payment acceptance and services, to bring cryptocurrency payments to physical retail stores.
The Fintech Times
MARCH 25, 2025
Georgian fintech Keepz has collaborated with the Georgian Revenue Service to make digital currencies a payment option for taxes. Keepz was the first fintech in Georgia to acquire an open banking licence and integrate cryptocurrency payments into tax collection.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Bitcoin continued its price climb today (Nov. At 6:31 pm EST, the digital currency still hit high, sitting at $19,083.92, as the coin approaches its record price of $19,783, which it hit in December of 2017. million, CoinDesk reported, the first IPO to use cryptocurrency as an accepted currency.
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DECEMBER 18, 2020
But the race is still on for central banks to develop their own digital versions of fiat to take their place alongside bills and coins. To that end, the Bahamas may stand out as an epicenter of sorts for the rise of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). million) of digital currency to 50,000 people chosen by lottery.
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Payments Dive
JULY 11, 2024
The May theft of over $300 million worth of bitcoin from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin is the largest digital currency heist so far this year.
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Clearly Payments
OCTOBER 31, 2024
From traditional options like credit cards to emerging solutions such as cryptocurrencies and biometrics, each payment method comes with unique advantages that cater to varying consumer needs. Adoption Rate : Cryptocurrency payment usage remains niche but is growing, with over 420 million crypto wallet users worldwide in 2023.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 27, 2020
The price of bitcoin has passed $28,000 on Sunday (Dec. In a continuing showing of the strength of the cryptocurrency, bitcoin is now valued at $500,000, according to the report. The rise of the currency's value has been surging just over the past holiday weekend, breaking $25,000 on Friday (Dec. In the U.K.,
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2021
Bitcoin gets all the headlines. But step beyond bitcoin and enter the world of cryptocurrencies approaching mainstream acceptance. At present, he said, a number of factors have inhibited the adoption of bitcoin as a transactional currency, including the fact that it’s expensive and can be very slow.
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NOVEMBER 11, 2020
The count of bitcoin ATMs has jumped this year, rising by 85 percent to just under 11,800, CoinDesk reported. Meanwhile, hackers purportedly sought $11 million worth of cryptocurrency from Japanese computer gaming company Capcom in return for not providing illicitly gathered private data, CoinDesk reported.
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Fintech News
JUNE 3, 2025
The agency said this action should serve as a warning to other digital currency exchanges that fail to comply with Australias anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) obligations.
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Tearsheet
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Fast-forward to today, a Bitcoin-focused product strategy within the lineup seems to be a safer bet. Its early, all-in stance on Bitcoin now seems like a stroke of genius, given that crypto markets are maturing, Bitcoin is reaching new peaks, and a new administration is seemingly opening the door to crypto and Web3.
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FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Sweden’s Riksbank is assessing e-krona, a new form of digital currency that hopes to take the country a step closer to the creation of the world’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to reports on Thursday (Feb.
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Clearly Payments
JANUARY 4, 2024
Since 2009, the financial landscape has been undergoing a transformation with the emergence of cryptocurrencies. As digital currencies grow in popularity , merchants around the world are exploring the potential benefits of accepting payments in cryptocurrency.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Amid the rallies that have marked all manner of asset classes in 2020 – where things hummed along to start the year, turned sour in the spring and then rebounded (nay, roared) into the waning months, bitcoin stands out. But now, at least some asset managers have been embracing bitcoin as a hedge against currencies and gold.
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Clearly Payments
AUGUST 29, 2024
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have received attention in recent years as central banks worldwide explore the potential to evolve the way we conduct financial transactions. With the rise of digital payments, cryptocurrencies, and fintech innovations, CBDCs represent a new frontier in the evolution of money.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Scan the headlines over the past few weeks and cryptos, well beyond the marquee bitcoin, are making inroads into mainstream consumer and business activities. PayPal is opening its network to allow consumers to shop using cryptocurrency. Square bought $50 million of bitcoin. The mechanics and clumsiness of it all have not helped.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
When PayPal announced recently that its 350 million users can deposit bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in their accounts and spend it at 26 million merchants next year, it was characterized as the inevitable advance of digital currency. Bitcoin is like a [crypto] 101 version. You Can’t Spend It.
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OCTOBER 9, 2020
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are continuing to attract attention from authorities for all the wrong reasons. Justice Department report is taking aim at the “emerging threats and enforcement challenges” associated with digital currencies, establishing a “Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework” to address problems.
PYMNTS
JUNE 2, 2020
The rewards are made with Pluton, the native digital currency of the company. Users can receive additional rewards by staking their digital tokens through the company’s app. In other news, Poolin, a bitcoin mining pool, is growing its financial services and digital currency lending verticals, CoinDesk reported.
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NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Crypto payment services provider BitPay has unveiled a new mass payout offering, BitPay Send, which lets entities of different sizes make payments to workers, clients, affiliates, suppliers, contractors and others with digital currency, according to a Thursday (Nov. Bitcoin last exceeded the $16,000 price point on Jan.
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DECEMBER 18, 2020
18) that the government says would make convertible digital currencies like bitcoin less attractive to criminals engaging in crimes such as ransomware attacks. CVC" stands for "convertible virtual currency" – a category of digital products that can serve as currency. Bitcoin is a popular example.
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NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Bit by bit — but more than bitcoin by bitcoin — cryptos are inching into the mainstream, for both consumer and commercial applications. Elsewhere, Square announce last month that it has invested $50 million — approximately 1 percent of its total second-quarter assets — to purchase roughly 4,709 bitcoins. “We
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NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton thinks inefficiencies in traditional payments are boosting favorability for bitcoin, a report from Coindesk says. Clayton, speaking on CNBC, said bitcoin's popularity came from that disappointment in mainstream payments.
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NOVEMBER 23, 2020
PayPal and Square’s Cash App digital currency buying spree has reportedly triggered a bitcoin rally, according to a Benzinga report on Monday (Nov. It added that “supply scarcity will become even more imbalanced” as other financial institutions grow their own involvement in cryptocurrency. .
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Fintech News
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
This incident, referred to by the FBI as “TraderTraitor,” marks one of the largest digital currency heists to date. In a public announcement, the FBI detailed that the malicious actors swiftly converted the stolen assets into bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, dispersing them across numerous blockchain addresses.
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NOVEMBER 25, 2020
The Federal Ministry of Finance in Nigeria is said to be in discussions with the securities watchdog in the country to create a new digital currency and blockchain structure, Cointelegraph reported. As it stands, bitcoin and other digital currencies are seeing increasing use in Nigeria.
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PYMNTS
APRIL 14, 2020
One of China’s state-owned banks has a mobile test app that supports the country’s central bank digital currency, according to a CoinDesk report. Testing the app is a sign the giant lender is working to launch the development and deployment work of rolling out the nation’s digital currency, the report said.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 5, 2021
Trading volumes on cryptocurrency exchanges have been doing extraordinarily well this week, hitting a new record volume of $68.3 Bitcoin reached $34,800 on Sunday (Jan. Bitcoin reached $34,800 on Sunday (Jan. Bitcoin had seen a string of days in which it continually broke records, passing $20,000 on Dec.
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MARCH 16, 2020
Intercontinental Exchange, the parent firm of Bakkt, had first made it known in the summer of 2018 that Starbucks was eyeing the retail use of digital currency payments. The Bank of Russia, however, reportedly supports the idea of digital financial assets and had gone so far as having an experimental tokenization project.
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AUGUST 14, 2020
Coinbase, the digital currency exchange, will offer bitcoin-backed cash loans to select customers as early as next month, the San Francisco-based company announced on its blog this week. Customers in 17 states have been invited to join the waitlist to borrow up to 30 percent of their bitcoin holdings.
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JANUARY 20, 2020
As part of those efforts, the lab is being used to explore “whether there is a role for a digital Australian dollar — that is, an Australian [central bank digital currency (CBDC)] — in the context of the bank’s responsibilities for issuing the currency and overseeing the payments system.”. What It Won’t Do. The Rewards.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 7, 2020
With transactions that become irreversible almost instantaneously, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are winning new converts — among scammers eager to avoid credit card chargebacks that can eat into their ill-gotten gains. So, use your credit card to buy cryptocurrency that you give a scammer and you might be stuck.
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AUGUST 16, 2020
China’s Ministry of Commerce is moving forward with its plan for a digital currency, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane advocated for the potential benefits digital currencies can offer in a recent speech given at TheCityUK 10th Anniversary Conference on Wednesday (Nov. The future of digital currencies, Haldane said, is uncertain and most likely varied. “If So far, that has not been the case.”.
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Clearly Payments
MARCH 11, 2024
In recent years, the rise of cryptocurrency has redefined traditional notions of currency and payment systems worldwide. As Canada navigates this digital revolution, understanding the implications of cryptocurrency on the country’s payment systems is paramount.
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Stax
APRIL 10, 2025
TL;DR You get to choose from traditional payment methods like cash and checks, online payment methods like digital wallets and ACH transfers, and emerging payment methods like BNPL services and cryptocurrencies. Digital currencies are instead based on a decentralized system and no single entity controls their supply.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 21, 2020
A hacking organization released receipts for $10,000 in charitable contributions to two groups made through bitcoin, the BBC reported. in bitcoin ( valued at approximately $10,515 as of 7:04 P.M. In other news, the price of bitcoin broke through the $12,000 level on Tuesday (Oct. The price of bitcoin was $11,954.07
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JANUARY 25, 2021
Russia’s Ministry of Labor has banned federal and local governmental officials — and their spouses and underage children — from holding digital currencies, CoinDesk reported. Stability has continued to be a prevalent issue of digital coins, even despite the recent price surge. No user funds have been compromised in the attack.
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MARCH 1, 2019
Facebook , Telegram and Signal are looking to launch their own cryptocurrencies that will allow users to send money internationally on their messaging systems. They are all going to run up against these same types of technological limits,” said Richard Ma, CEO of Quantstamp , a provider of security audits for newer cryptocurrencies.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 29, 2020
A small Spanish city has debuted an “Elio” digital currency to help with transactions, Finance Magnates reported. The digital currency, which is pegged to the euro, will let the City Council of Lebrija provide economic assistance to just under 600 chosen beneficiaries.
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OCTOBER 15, 2020
It will function as a “gathering place” for those interested in digital currencies or those who start businesses in addition to researchers, expats and digital nomads. Meanwhile, the federal government is Nigeria is said to be creating a framework to allow for countrywide digital currency adoption, CoinDesk reported.
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OCTOBER 27, 2020
Blockchain industry stocks are on the rise as bitcoin reaches new heights, Seeking Alpha reported. Bitcoin reached higher than the $13,600 level intraday. The price of bitcoin was $13,750.90 And, approximately $24 million of cryptocurrency was reportedly removed from Harvest Finance ’s pools on Monday (Oct.
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