Blockchain

The Treasury secretary’s recent Senate testimony coming down on cryptocurrencies is misguided. Regulations should require building better blockchain technology at the banks.

An innovative approach to settling trades pioneered by the bank and the tech firm Paxos Trust could start a wave of real-life use of distributed ledgers on Wall Street.

The Treasury secretary’s recent Senate testimony coming down on cryptocurrencies is misguided. Regulations should require building better blockchain technology at the banks.

There's been a lot of interest in using blockchain, the distributed ledger technology developed for bitcoin, to modernize payments and banking systems. But as with any technology, blockchain is only secure if its users can be trusted.

Barca, as one of the world’s most popular football clubs is known, will issue tokens for use on a fan-engagement platform.

Traditional ATMs are vanishing in the U.K. and other parts of the world, but there may be a growing market for their crypto counterparts.

Four Chinese military members charged with stealing data of 150 million Americans; fintech can use deposit insurance, a step toward a full bank charter.

MyCUID, an identity-verification tool launched in early 2018, has a new identity of its own.

Stock markets have endured dramatic swings since the coronavirus erupted in China and talks of pandemics surfaced. But the notoriously volatile bitcoin market has been steadily climbing as investors see value in crypto's ability to thrive as traditional financial rails are under pressure.

CurioInvest, an investment platform, and MERJ Exchange Ltd., a Seychelles-based digital asset exchange, are partnering to offer tokens backed by collectible cars. The companies say tokenizing the luxury assets as an investment could make them widely accessible to a bigger pool of people.

There is another phase of development for digital currency, waiting to take the spotlight — and it may not be driven by banks.

The payments industry is a hotbed of innovation, and many of its larger players are eager to claim patents on new developments.

Stable coins will extract value amid the volatility of cryptocurrency valuations, argues Bolt Global's Christel Quek.

A seasoned investor in startups offers his top predictions for the coming decade. Among them: Big tech firms will become big players in financial services.

The annual Consumer Electronics Show, taking place in Las Vegas, is a showcase of bizarre and revolutionary new technologies — with a few providing glimpses into the future of fintech and payments.

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project has drawn vast political pushback, but also more tangible government action as nations globally consider central bank supported digital currencies. It’s also sparking a potential bottom-up approach in New York.

In what’s been named the “fourth Industrial Revolution,” the opportunity for fintech to continue to disrupt the payments landscape and deliver solutions that move money quickly and securely will only continue to grow, says AvidXchange's Dan Drees.

Stablecoins, with their instant settlement and high liquidity, averts the issues that have long plagued cross-border transactions

The largest digital token has posted gains of more than 9,000,000% since July 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The technology has graduated from early movers and is large enough to make a difference in authentication, argues Findora's Charles Liu.