Apple updated its App Store guidelines Monday with new and clearer language explaining its policy toward cryptocurrency trading and nonfungible tokens.

Amazon.com is allowing certain customers to use their Venmo wallets when checking out as the retailing giant tweaks its payment options for customers ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Fidelity Investments is hiring an additional 100 people for its digital assets unit, stepping up an expansion that started in May and taking advantage of turmoil among crypto firms to lure talent. 

If stablecoins facilitate payments in the future it could have broad implications, acting Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Martin Gruenberg said.

Decentralized finance, the once red-hot slice of the crypto universe that was at the center of this year's collapse of the digital-asset world, is facing a rapidly increasing new challenge: financial hacking.

Customers of the bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital may recover about 72% of the value of their accounts under a tentative deal for the company to sell itself to FTX US, the digital-asset exchange.

Nubank partnered with the blockchain developer Polygon to develop Nucoin and an affiliated customer rewards program.

Silvergate Capital shares slumped 23% after the cryptocurrency-focused bank's third-quarter results missed consensus estimates and a much-anticipated stablecoin launch was delayed.

JPMorgan Chase has hired a new head of digital assets regulatory policy, less than a month after CEO Jamie Dimon told lawmakers that cryptocurrencies are "decentralized Ponzi schemes."

In global news this week, India adds digital banking centers, NAB embraces tap-to-pay and JPMorgan Chase shakes up its management in the Asia Pacific region.