Stax

APRIL 10, 2025

You also need a payment services provider that supports your chosen payment methods, but that providers platform must integrate seamlessly with your existing CRM, ERP, payroll, CMS, and accounting software systems. Digital currencies are instead based on a decentralized system and no single entity controls their supply.

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Stax

MARCH 11, 2025

This article will show all you need to know about online credit card processing and how you can select the best payment services provider for your needs. You will receive your payment in full, while the customer will repay the loan in interest-free installments (but there are associated fees) to the credit provider.

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Online Payment Processing Process Payment Gateways Online and Mobile Banking 88

Fintech News

MARCH 24, 2025

In Singapore, the central bank strengthened in 2024 the Payment Services Act (PSA), introducing more stringent requirements for crypto service providers relating to AML/CFT, user protection and financial stability on service providers. million out of 560 million crypto owners worldwide.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Bybit , the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has been granted a Provisional Approval for Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licence for virtual asset exchange services from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA).

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Fintech News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Additionally, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are now a key trend, with initiatives such as Project Orchid in Singapore, the Digital Rupiah in Indonesia, and a retail CBDC project being piloted in Thailand. Artificial intelligence (AI) is also gaining traction, particularly for risk assessment and operational efficiency.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The Banque de France is seeking applications “to experiment with a central bank digital currency for interbank settlements,” according to an announcement from the French central bank. ” The submission deadline for digital applications is May 15.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 6, 2025

Liv , the UAE-based digital bank launched by Emirates NBD , has launched a new crypto offering, enabling customers to trade cryptocurrencies within its mobile banking app.

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PYMNTS

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. 12) announcement.

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Fintech News

APRIL 24, 2025

billion digital asset, Web3 WeLab 1 billion digital banking, lending Micro Connect 1.7 billion alternative SME financing, investment ZA Group 1 billion digital banking, Web3 HashKey Group Valuation: $1.3 billion HashKey Group is a digital asset financial services provider. billion digital payments PayU 5.2

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

“A bank providing services in support of a stablecoin project must comply with all applicable laws and regulations and must ensure that it has instituted appropriate controls and conducted sufficient due diligence commensurate with the risks associated with maintaining a relationship with a stablecoin issuer,” Gould wrote. .

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 5, 2025

It fosters an ecosystem of issuers, investors, and service providers to promote liquidity, accessibility, and capital efficiency. “We are committed to fostering transparency, compliance, as well as security in the digital currency space.”

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Stablecoins Cross-Border Payments Multi-Currency Cross-Border 64

Fintech Finance

MAY 28, 2024

Gnosis Pay , the company building the rails for the next generation of banking, today announces a new partnership with Visa , a world leader in digital payments, that will help broaden the use of digital currencies in everyday payment settings.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

New payments infrastructure continues to gain traction with financial service providers looking to modernize their services for business clients. Emerging payment rails and digital currencies often tout security as a key value-added differentiator over legacy payment rails. In the U.S.,

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm of Standard Chartered, and Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) successfully completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) on the Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN). Central Bank Digital Currencies must therefore be able to work together quickly, easily and securely across national borders.

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CBDC Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Cross-Border Central Bank 110

Finovate

JUNE 3, 2024

PayPal USD was created with the intent to revolutionize commerce again by providing a fast, easy, and inexpensive payment method for the next evolution of the digital economy,” said PayPal Senior Vice President of the Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Digital Currency Group Jose Fernandez da Ponte.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Mastercard Leads Central Bank Digital Currency Test. Mastercard is one of them: Last week, the company announced the development of a virtual testing platform built for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), as more governments around the world have announced plans to explore state-backed crypto.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) announced Monday (May 22) that it issued a new information paper looking at benefits and uses cases of digital currencies for international payments and correspondent banking practices.

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Fintech News

JUNE 4, 2024

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched Project Rialto to test the potential for improving instant cross-border payments through a combination of a modular foreign exchange (FX) component and wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDC).

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Fintech News

JULY 3, 2024

In the heart of Southeast Asia, a small island nation is making giant strides in digital currencies. percent of its population owning digital assets, the city-state isn’t just participating in the crypto revolution—it’s leading it. These services include the buying, selling, or facilitating the exchange of DPTs.

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Financial Literacy Cryptocurrency Digital Currency Money Laundering 106

Fintech Finance

JULY 4, 2024

Offline payment functionality offers benefits for all stakeholders in the financial industry As a BIS study from 2023 underlines, offline functionality is also a necessity for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which is currently being explored by numerous central banks worldwide.

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Digital Payments Online and Mobile Banking Central Bank Financial Inclusion 98

Fintech Finance

JUNE 13, 2024

BVNK , the stablecoin payments provider, announced today that it has enabled Swift payments on its platform, so businesses can move easily between US dollars, Euros and stablecoins like USDT, USDC and PYUSD. BVNK offers the perfect pathway from our PSPs to our banks, saving us valuable time and money.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Lloyd’s of London , the insurance firm, is supporting a new policy that protects digital currency held in digital wallets from hackers, Coindesk reported on Monday (March 2). The policy is reportedly a new insurance type that has a limit that changes with the price fluctuations of covered digital currency assets.

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The Payments Association

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The flaws in prevailing central bank digital currency (CBDC) designs and suggestions for improving them. These design flaws could undermine efforts to create a public digital payments system for the future economy. What is this article about? Why is it important? What’s next? But the damage was done.

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The Paypers

APRIL 23, 2020

Gilded , an US-based payment service provider, has announced the launch of a digital currency payment solution together with crypto data provider CoinMarketCap.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The stage may even be set for the emergence of digital currencies, and as Circle’s Allaire said digital dollars (with 500 percent growth through the past several months), among others, have “really started to become not just a technical reality, but a legal and regulatory reality as well.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Enterprise blockchain service provider Ripple on Thursday (Oct. 8) announced a beta offering called Line of Credit that it says lets its FinTech customers use the XRP digital currency to send cross-border payments. The service is not available to individuals.

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Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Cross-Border Cross-Border Payments Digital Currency 100

Fintech Finance

AUGUST 27, 2024

The MiCA regulation aims to foster the use of innovative technologies by setting a regulatory framework that covers crypto-assets (including stablecoins), crypto-assets issuers and crypto-asset service providers to protect the rights of holders in the EU. As an EU regulation, it is directly applicable to all 27 EU member states.

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Stablecoins Multi-Currency Regulations Risk Mitigation 116

The Paypers

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Jamaican central bank has completed the pilot testing of its central bank digital currency, with the participation of only one payment service provider.

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CoinRemitter

MARCH 28, 2025

Regulatory Compliance: Day by day, stablecoins like Tether and EUR-backed digital currencies are aligning more with EU financial regulations. Accessibility: Businesses can accept crypto payments from customers worldwide without the need for complex banking relationships, currency conversion fees, and unwanted taxes.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Rather, the introduction of new rules in 2023, aimed at curbing the promotion of Digital Payment Token (DPT) services and tightening licensing requirements , seems to have underscored the importance of a regulated and secure environment for digital asset exchanges and service providers. trillion by December 2023.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As a key initiative under the Dubai Digital Economy Strategy, DIFC launched Ignyte a platform looking to accelerate over 100,000 start-ups and entrepreneurs toward global growth. Positive change The Global Financial Centres Index continues to rank Dubai as the regions leading financial centre.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Treasury Department is researching use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as well as drafting regulatory proposals for private stablecoins, U.K. Areas like those involving digital asset service providers are complex, as multiple regulatory authorities are involved in oversight.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

Today, there remains a broad spectrum of positions that regulators and financial service providers hold when it comes to working with crypto businesses. ius, “because cryptocurrency is actually a medium of exchange technology, which possesses similar risks as any payment or financial business.”. As Karalevi? .”

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Neopay

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This latest communication is particularly relevant to firms authorised under the Payment Services Regulations 2017 (PSRs) and the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (EMRs), including Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), Payment Institutions (PIs), and Registered Account Information Service Providers (RAISPs).

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Fraud Prevention Financial Crimes Compliance Payments 52

CB Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Elliptic , an AI-enabled cryptocurrency surveillance service provider, has raised $60M in a Series C. This round drew participation from SoftBank Group, AlbionVC, Digital Currency Group, and Evolution Equity Partners, among others. How’s the company performing?

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Blockchain Compliance Transactions Money Laundering 65

Clearly Payments

MARCH 11, 2024

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada ( FINTRAC ) have issued guidelines and regulations to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) requirements for cryptocurrency exchanges and service providers.

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Cryptocurrency Consumer Protection Financial Inclusion Payments 104

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 24, 2024

Digital assets and digital currencies continue to grow in popularity and demand. As regulations evolve to meet this demand, firms like R3 , the distributed ledger technology (DLT) and services provider, are looking to make adoption as seamless as possible.

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Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Product Digital Currency Interoperability 64