With the evolution of the payments industry, Grab has expanded its payment options to include five digital currencies, offering users in Singapore more efficient and smoother transactions.
The Bank of England takes aim at Bitcoin as a payment method, with Governor Andrew Bailey calling it "inefficient," while Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden cites the lack of regulatory clarity for its adoption.
Visa and Mastercard remain the giants in the payments industry despite having different business models, but with the evolving financial landscape, will they be able to maintain this?
In an attempt to revitalize payments in India, the National Payments Corporation of India says Falcon will allow local firms to build and deploy blockchain solutions.
Blockchain is known as the system where Bitcoin was minted, but it is more than capable of just that, offering a wide array of use cases that could potentially change the world on a larger scale.
In this episode of CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, Bernhard Müller and Kurt Wuckert Jr. discuss the hurdles faced by the payments sector and how Centi seeks to be an alternative to debit and credit cards.
Regulating the sector remains on the cards for the United States, as seen in the recent developments in the space, including tax reforms, a new roadmap, and the adoption of virtual currencies as payments.
People don’t understand that the credit card system is a high-interest, short-term rolling debt/loan that is deceptively imposed on consumers.
MasterCard has partnered with Bakkt to offer digital currency products to its network of enterprises and banking giants.
At the CoinGeek Zurich conference, a panel consisting of industry leaders in the payments sector share how their companies are using BSV to modernize operations, reach new users, reduce costs and incentivize their customers.
GCash, which serves over 40% of the population, believes that in order to cement its position as a disruptor, it needs to integrate one of today’s rising technologies—digital currency.
Leaders from JPMorgan, Mastercard, FIS Global, and Tassat recently shared their thoughts on using blockchain and digital currencies for payments.
