
Digital Payments
Visa calls off $5.3B acquisition of digital currency-friendly startup Plaid
The consumer credit giant was set to acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion, but antitrust claims from the Department of Justice...
Pakistan launches Bill Gates-backed Raast instant digital payments system
Known as Raast, the system is especially aimed at availing digital payments to women who have been financially marginalized for...
China unveils first digital yuan physical card in Shanghai
Unlike in Shenzhen, Beijing and Suzhou, the People’s Bank of China is expanding beyond the use of smartphones to make...
2020 year in review: Revolutionary use cases of blockchain in banking and finance
Patrick Thompson takes a look at some of the revolutionary developments in banking and finance that took place in 2020...
Bank of France moves from conceptual to market CBDC trials: deputy governor
Banque du France is seeking to determine how a central bank digital currency can improve the fluidity and efficiency of...
Ella Qiang: Only Bitcoin SV has the scaling capacity for ‘serious business’
In a PDAX webinar, Bitcoin Association’s Ella Qiang explains BSV's main advantages for both data processing and small-scale digital payments,...