Bitcoin

There are merchants that accept bitcoin. But it's still hard to pay with cryptocurrency, and that's holding it back as a payment option.

Hedge fund apparently likes the bank’s corporate services business; Michael Piwowar is credited with “jump-starting” the agency’s deregulatory push.

Financial institutions engaged in virtual currency markets face a number of risks — proceeding carefully is justified.

When regulators recognize ICOs as securities offerings, they will likely require issuers to fully comply with standard Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, increasing compliance pressure, according to Ron Teicher, CEO of EverCompliant.

Financial institutions engaged in virtual currency markets face a number of risks — proceeding carefully is justified.

The increase has bought the gains over the two-week period to almost 29%.

Despite its popularity — or perhaps because of it — the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been at the front lines of many of the issues plaguing the cryptocurrency market. Its new e-money license in the U.K. could go a long way to easing some of those pains.

The Senate is expected to pass a bill that would ax controversial guidance on loans at car dealerships; lower tax rate may have skewed year-on-year comparisons.

Ripple, which lining up partnerships with banks, is likely to help change the perception of crypto, expand its own value and co-lead the shift in the way the world uses, manages, accesses, stores and exchanges money, writes Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked 13 cryptocurrency exchanges for detailed information about their operations as part of a "fact-finding inquiry."