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The payments giant is bullish on stablecoins, but may be overlooking the potential of DeFi
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A new crypto payments ecosystem for stablecoins called Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN) has debuted at Davos. The post Chinese Cross-Border Payments System for Stablecoins and CBDCs Unveiled at Davos appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-1-23 09:25 | |
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Retail users may have to wait in much of the world, however.
2021-1-23 22:23 | |
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently approved the use of stablecoins for banks to process financial transactions. However, issues arose from the new OCC guidelines on what this could mean for the entire crypto community and stablecoins, even in the future.
2021-1-7 21:00 | |
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The Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has greenlighted federally chartered banks to run nodes and use stablecoins for payments and other acceptable functions. The agency published a letter on January 4, noting that national banks or federal savings associates may validate, store, and record payment transactions by working as a node on independent node verification networks (INVNs).
2021-1-5 14:42 | |
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The Office of the Comptroller of Currency has announced on January 4 that financial institutions like banks can now make use of stablecoins and blockchains to process payments, via a letter. The OCC informed banks that they could use these new methods as long as they comply with regulations and best banking practices in the US.Read More
2021-1-6 11:00 | |
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Today, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced a strategic investment in Settle Network, a digital assets settlement network across LATAM for exchange and cross-border payments. The investment of up to $3 million, paid in lumens, will help bolster Settle’s current suite of payment tools centered around stablecoins: fiat-to-crypto on-ramps for B2C and B2B users, stablecoin […] CryptoNinjas » Stellar Development Foundation invests $3M in Settle Network
2020-12-18 22:50 | |
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Retail and wholesale stablecoins With the introduction of Libra, now Diem, there was the promise of a crypto asset that would empower the unbanked, allowing them to participate in the financial world and make low cost international payments.
2020-12-18 16:47 | |
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Stablecoins and continentwide regulations are key to breaking down barriers to Africa's economic growth.
2020-12-4 19:13 | |
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Big tech and stablecoins could disrupt the European financial system, says ECB Executive Board Member, Fabio Panetta. In a speech at the “Future of Payments in Europe” conference, Panetta stateThe post ECB says 'big tech and stablecoins' a risk to the European Financial System appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-11-27 19:30 | |
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In the last year, stablecoins have gone from representing just a tiny fraction of global cryptocurrency trading volume to more than half of it. This, because more users than ever before now use stablecoins to exit volatility, invest, and make payments.
2020-11-3 13:52 | |
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On Monday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report on crypto assets like central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and global stablecoins (GSCs). Moreover, the IMF also hosted a virtual panel that discussed digital currencies and cross-border payments with the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
2020-10-20 00:00 | |
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The Financial Stability Board (FSB) says stablecoins have the potential to enhance the efficiency of the provision of financial services. The body adds that the hybrid cryptocurrencies have the potential to bring efficiencies to payments (including cross-border payments) as well as to promote financial inclusion.
2020-10-18 17:05 | |
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As other nations are rushing to launch central bank backed digital currency dubbed CBDC, Australia is not joining the bandwagon. As per the Australian local news platforms, the Reserve Bank of Australia recent payments paper indicates that the bank is taking a cautious stand when it comes to CBDCs and privately issued stablecoins.
2020-9-18 00:59 | |
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NOWPayments is a custody-free cryptocurrency payment processor that simplifies the process of accepting and making crypto payments from all across the world. In this Altcoin Explorer, we deep dive into NOWPayments, a cryptocurrency payment gateway that allows merchants to seamlessly accept and make payments in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and fiat-pegged stablecoins.
2020-8-20 18:14 | |
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The advent of Stablecoins and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) has pretty much put Ripple’s XRP in a compromising position, especially given that they do almost exactly what XRP does when utilized in cross-border payments.
2020-8-20 19:14 | |
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There are multiple ways to approach digital payments, and Facebook wants to cover them all.
2020-8-15 19:51 | |
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Ripple CTO talks to an economics professor from Berkeley, Barry Eichengreen, on the Ripple podcast and discusses QE, stablecoins and crypto used for cross-border payments
2020-7-29 11:43 | |
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Although stablecoins are a relatively new invention in the cryptocurrency space, they have become quite popular among those who use cryptocurrencies for payments. The most preferred of them all is Tether’s USDT which a Messari researcher says may have the potential to replace Bitcoin as the dominant currency on public blockchains. Its number of daily […]
2020-7-22 13:00 | |
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Stablecoins can mediate between central bank digital currencies and the consumer payments universe, says Sila's Alex Lipton.
2020-5-31 16:00 | |
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Coinspeaker IOV Labs Launches Lumino Network Light Client to Bring Bitcoin DeFi to MobileThe Light Client enables mobile payments integration with all ERC20-compliant tokens and stablecoins available in the RIF, RSK, and Money on Chain DeFi ecosystems.
2020-5-13 22:10 | |
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The European Central Bank looks at stablecoins as key instruments that can help consumers meet demand in the payments services, but wants regulators to be proactive in addressing regulatory gaps that can pose risks.
2020-5-7 12:33 | |
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Paying out the stimulus using stablecoins would be cleaner and cheaper than sending checks in the mail, says the CEO Of Binance.US.
2020-3-22 16:49 | |
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Cryptocurrency Rating firm Weiss Ratings has posited that instead of Azimo partnering with Ripple to leverage XRP for faster and cheaper payments in the Philippines it should have instead used stablecoins like Tether (USDT).
2020-2-28 15:19 | |
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JPMorgan Chase published its annual report on the blockchain development worldwide. Mostly, it covers the adoption models, use-cases and challenges the technology faces
2020-2-23 16:40 | |
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At the recent Symposium for Future Payments held in Stanford, California on February 5, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard stressed the importance of remaining “on the frontier of research and policy development regarding CBDC.
2020-2-9 12:10 | |
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Jeremy Allaire, co-founder, and CEO of Circle, a peer-to-peer payments technology company is making the prediction for 2020. His predictions are solely focused on stablecoins that he believes will continue to show prowess this year.
2020-1-4 23:34 | |
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BitPay, a leading bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins payments processor established in May 2011, has added support for top stablecoins including Circle’s USD Coin (USDC), the Gemini Dollar (GUSD) and Paxos Standard Token (PAX).
2019-12-11 16:00 | |
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BitPay, a payment provider offering merchants the ability to accept cryptocurrencies, launched support for several stablecoins. Users will now be able to use USD Coin, Gemini Dollar and Paxos to pay for goods with all on-boarded merchants.
2019-12-11 23:35 | |
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The largest provider of blockchain payment services, BitPay, is expanding their reach into cryptocurrency. According to a recent press release shared with us by BitPay, the provider will now be offering stablecoin payments, benefiting consumers and merchants around the world.
2019-12-10 22:04 | |
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Global stablecoins could exacerbate existing risks to the “autonomy and resilience of European payments systems,” says the ECB’s Benoit Coeure
2019-11-26 15:50 | |
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In a recent report released by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), it was explained that privacy tooling for stablecoins appears to be extremely lackluster. Privacy coins are cryptocurrencies that tend to have different features to protect users’ privacy while sending and receiving payments.
2019-11-22 20:48 | |
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Over the past year, a buzzword that's caught the attention of the Ethereum ecosystem has undoubtedly been DeFi aka Decentralized Finance. From payments to infrastructure to stablecoins, the Ethereum eThe post Ethereum is 'definitely making headway' in decentralized open finance appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-9 23:30 | |
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The U.S. Federal Reserve is hiring a manager for its Retail Payments section to research digital currencies and stablecoins
2019-11-6 05:13 | |
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The central bank is expanding the role of its Retail Payments Manager to include digital currencies, stablecoins and distributed ledger technologies as part of a new hire.
2019-11-5 02:45 | |
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Under pressure from regulators, the Libra project may consider a fundamental change to the way its planned crypto payments system will operate.
2019-10-21 12:30 | |
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The growing popularity of stablecoins is slowly causing a major shift to occur. The first of these assets has now found a use outside of the cryptocurrency industry as well. The USDC stablecoin will now be accepted for tax payments in Bermuda.
2019-10-18 01:59 | |
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Based on the latest report by Circle, Bermuda became the first government to accept payments for taxes, fees and other government services using stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC). The acceptance of USD-backed cryptocurrency is a result of Bermuda’s efforts into supporting the use of USD-dollar backed stablecoins and decentralized finance protocols and services.
2019-10-16 19:56 | |
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Today, Bermuda became the first government to accept payments for taxes, fees and other government services using USD Coin (USDC). Announced as part of a broader initiative from the Bermuda government aimed at supporting the use of USD-dollar backed stablecoins and decentralized finance protocols and services, this is a major
2019-10-16 16:13 | |
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The first and foremost point we learn about the money is that it belongs to the government institutions. They print the money and we spend as the payments and use it as a store of value. This phenomenon was there for more than a decade or two, but things started moving resentfully when someone promulgated The post Stablecoins : Killer application of blockchain appeared first on ItsBlockchain.
2019-10-10 12:23 | |
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The commotion around Libra and other stablecoins has caught the attention of a lot of regulators from across the world. The idea of a virtual asset backed by a fiat currency to facilitate payments has taken flight among several mainstream financial institutions, including the likes of JPMorgan.
2019-10-5 23:30 | |
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Rapyd raised $100 million in a Series C funding round to face off against the arrival of stablecoins.
2019-10-1 16:15 | |
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Coinspeaker ECB Exec: Libra Could Address Global Payments System ProblemsECB Board Member Benoit Coeure has warned that private stablecoins like Libra are posing big risk to the monetary sovereignty, however, they can also solve some of the burning issues.
2019-9-26 11:00 | |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a new staff paper on September 19, saying stablecoins can cause significant disruptions to the current global payments framework. However, the organization also admits that this type of cryptocurrencies can contribute to improving financial inclusion across the world.
2019-9-20 15:00 | |
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Stablecoins are rising in popularity, leaving many wondering what the future holds for this type of cryptocurrency. The growing number of brands developing or looking into branded stablecoins is also on the rise.
2019-9-19 17:24 | |
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Stablecoin issuers including Coinbase, Paxos and Terra are planning to change directions as a result of consumer interest in using stablecoins as a mean of payment rather than simply for trading reports The Block.
2019-8-4 22:15 | |
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With the market being driven by the price of Bitcoin, there are various speculations of the BTC market being manipulated by whales and others. As the users’ main focus lies with major cryptos, stablecoins are taking a lead in the competition with the payments app, Venmo in terms of transaction volumes.
2019-7-11 19:30 | |
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Following in the footsteps of crypto exchanges like Binance, Huobi is working to launch its own blockchain, dubbed FinanceChain, aimed at helping financial firms manage their own lending services, stablecoins, security token offerings, and specific payments services.
2019-7-2 22:27 | |
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Analysts at the Reserve Bank of Australia claimed that neither general cryptocurrencies nor stablecoins can be an alternative to fiat in local retail payments
2019-6-20 17:02 | |
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Payments platform and crypto Visa card provider Wirex partners with the Stellar network to build and launch 26 new stablecoins.
2019-4-30 22:00 | |
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Satoshi Action Fund CEO Dennis Porter revealed North Dakota has introduced a bill that will protect the rights of Bitcoin miners and holders. In a recent post on Jan. 31, Porter said that North Dakota Representative Nathan Toman has introduced…
ANIME, the native token of the Animecoin Foundation, surged 12% after the major South Korean exchange Bithumb announced its listing of the meme coin. Animecoin (ANIME) rose to an intraday high of $0.0502 on Jan. 31, marking a 15% surge…
Bitwise Asset Management’s exchange-traded product tracking Bitcoin and Ethereum has received the initial nod from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. According to a Jan. 30 update from the commission, the Bitwise Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF cleared its first…
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the U.S. recorded a significant jump in inflows, while Ether ETFs showed signs of recovery after three days of weak flows. According to data from SoSoValue, the 12 spot Bitcoin ETFs drew in $588.22 million in…
Tether's USDt joins Bitcoin's Lightning Network for faster, low-cost transactions, enhancing financial applications and global reach. The post Tether integrates USDt on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Chainlink has launched a new product aimed at the decentralized finance market. According to a blog post, the Chainlink DeFi Yield Index is a data product that leverages the decentralized oracle network’s standard to aggregate lending rates across the decentralized…
Inflows into U. S. spot Bitcoin ETFs remain weak for the second consecutive day as the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision yesterday to keep interest rates unchanged weighs on investor sentiment.