Tag: Payments
Citi Token Services will provide payments, liquidity to institutional customers
Citigroup has introduced Citi Token Services, a private, permissioned blockchain that offers cross-border payments, liquidity and automated trade fina [...]
Bitcoin clean energy usage reportedly exceeds 50% — Will Tesla start accepting BTC payments?
Elon Musk said in 2021 that Tesla would accept Bitcoin payments once miners were using roughly 50% clean energy sources “with positive future trend” — [...]
Coinbase’s (COIN) Brian Armstrong Confirms Crypto Exchange Will Support Lightning, Which Speeds Up Bitcoin (BTC) Payments
“Bitcoin is the world’s digital monetary system, and Lightning is Bitcoin’s payments layer,” Cathie Wood, the head of Coinbase’s second-biggest shareh [...]
Bitcoin will bring global payments out of the ‘fax era’ — Ex-PayPal boss
While information today can be easily transferred over the internet via email or text, global payments on the other hand, have remained in a “fax era, [...]
FTX seeks to reverse payments made to Shaq, Naomi Osaka and Miami Heat
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is probing if it can reclaim the millions of dollars paid to celebrity athletes and sports teams that promoted the exchan [...]
Thomas Cook India partners with National Payments Corporation of India – ETHospitality
Thomas Cook India partners with National Payments Corporation of India ETHospitality
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X, the Former Twitter, Has Licenses in Multiple U.S. States to Process Payments Including Crypto
Musk has said that he plans for X to expand beyond social media posts, becoming an 'everything app,' and the money transmitter licenses obtained since [...]
Elon Musk’s X moves closer to crypto payments with new state license
Rhode Island’s regulators have granted X (Twitter) a currency transmitter license marking a step forward for the company’s foray into the financial se [...]
Binance excludes Banco de Venezuela from P2P payments
The world's largest crypto exchange Binance has removed Banco de Venezuela as a payment method on its peer-to-peer (P2P) trading service. This follows [...]
OKX and ByBit remove sanctioned Russian banks from payments list
At least two major crypto exchanges followed Binance in excluding Russian banks under international financial sanctions from their payment options. Ti [...]
Binance P2P removes sanctioned Russian banks from payments list
Crypto exchange Binance has removed “yellow” and “green” payment options from its peer-to-peer service after being criticized for using these code wor [...]
MoonPay Offers Binance.US a Solution to Crypto Payments Suspension
The U.S. exchange's customers now have the option of buying stablecoin USDT using their debit or credit cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay and then conver [...]
Fuse CEO Mark Smargon says blockchain payments apps will rival Visa, not Ethereum
Episode 16 of Hashing It Out explores one of the most popular cryptocurrency use cases: payments. Mark Smargon, CEO of Fuse, joins host Elisha Owusu A [...]
Crypto Exchange Binance to Shut Down Payments Service Amid Refocus On Core Products
Binance Connect, which allowed merchants to accept payments in crypto, launched in March 2022 in an effort to help companies become “crypto-ready,” th [...]
FedNow showcases DLT-powered payments system as service provider
The United States Federal Reserve’s instant payment system, FedNow, has added a company powered by the distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform He [...]