Blockchain's decentralized model can help avoid the "insiders-only" tendencies of centralized markets while distributing risk, contends Donika Kraeva, strategic communications manager at Dentacoin.

Former N.Y. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had been a thorn in the side of financial institutions, using his state’s significant clout to affect national policy debate on a host of topics ranging from dark pools to cryptocurrencies. Here’s a look back at how Schneiderman made his mark on the ways financial institutions do business.

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.

Gary Cohn, the former director of the White House Economic Council, said he's still weighing options for his next role but one possibility is a digital bank.

Bank agrees to pay $480 million to investors related to the phony accounts scandal; Daniel Tarullo’s Fed departure called a turning point on oversight.

The plaintiff, investor Ryan Coffey, is seeking unspecified damages and a declaration that Ripple Labs and Chief Executive Officer Bradley Garlinghouse sold unregistered securities. Coffey is seeking to proceed on behalf of all purchasers of Ripple tokens.

A new strain of malware that targets cryptocurrency users — but not users of mainstream payment options like bank accounts — highlights how much the cybercrime game is changing behind the scenes.

MetLife and Prudential exceed expectations; cybercurrency desk will trade contracts linked to the digital currency’s value.

Agencies are examining regulating cybercurrencies not named bitcoin; is Paul Achleitner to blame for the German bank’s problems?

Given the scant use of cryptocurrencies for payments relative to their use for investment, some companies are rooting for the kind of government oversight and monetary policy that used to be considered an assault on the alternative currency movement.

As a new crypto lender, Nexo, launches Monday, the fintechs that lend money to people based on the digital currency they own say they're doing well even when cryptocurrency values plummet.

Vice chairman set to leave agency on Monday; big regionals are caught in the middle, losing share to both the biggest national banks and community institutions.

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

John Chiang says the bank “reeks of betrayal” a day before the bank’s annual meeting; the former chair of the CFTC has doubts about cryptocurrencies.

Iran’s central bank prohibited domestic financial institutions from handling virtual currencies, citing money-laundering concerns, as it seeks to ramp up control over the nation’s currency markets.

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%.

The bank’s latest punishment would settle charges by the CFPB and the OCC; Staley did not act without integrity in trying to unmask a whistleblower.

Cryptocurrencies are no different from the coins in your favorite online game, according to Richard Bernstein.

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.