Tag: Digital Currency

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Mastercard and Island Pay Roll Out First Central Bank Digital Currency-linked Card

by PaymentsJournal

February 17, 2021

Today, Bahamians have gained even greater versatility in how they shop and pay using the first of its kind, the ...

Tesla Gives a Bump to Bitcoin Price

by Tim Sloane

February 8, 2021

Tesla invested $1.5B in bitcoin and the price of bitcoin jumped 2% the same day. A more interesting investment strategy, ...

PayPal Likes To Hold Your Assets: Allows You to Purchase up to $100,000 of Cryptocurrency per Weekq

Visa Signs Goldman to B2B Connect, CEO Outlines Digital Currency Strategy

by Steve Murphy

January 29, 2021

This announcement is posted in Ledger Insights and reviews a deal between Goldman Sachs and Visa for the use of ...

Japan Doesn’t Want to Be Late with a Digital Currency

by Tim Sloane

December 24, 2020

Japan is mounting an effort to create a digital currency to remain competitive with other countries: “‘China has prompted moves ...

7 Takeaways from Sibos 2020

by PaymentsJournal

October 19, 2020

Don’t miss another episode of Truth In Data! Click on the red bell in the lower-left corner of your screen ...

Competition in Digital Money - Who Will Win?

Digital Money: Everything Old is New Again

by Brian Riley

October 8, 2020

Here is an interesting piece from Fintechzoom on Ant Financial and digital money. Note that some of the references may ...

Swiss and Liechtenstein Consumers Can Pay Using a Stable Digital Currency at Galaxus Stores

by Tim Sloane

August 27, 2020

The effort to make crypto news gets more and more ridiculous. Sygnum bank created the Digital Swiss Franc (DCHF) stablecoin ...

Fed Partners with MIT to Develop a Hypothetical Digital Coin

by Tim Sloane

August 17, 2020

The Fed is currently committed to developing FedNow, a real-time payments system, but it has just announced it partnered with ...

Will Central Banks Replace Cryptocurrencies?

More on China’s Central Bank Digital Currency Implementation

by Tim Sloane

August 10, 2020

This article from Forbes suggests that China’s tight alignment and coordination between technology providers, financial institutions, and the state may ...