The Securities and Exchange Commission may be focusing on the sale of options known as simple agreements for future tokens in connection with initial coin offerings.

As Congress considers new rules for digital currencies, lawmakers should consider putting responsibility in the hands of the Treasury Department, given its role in handling traditional currency.

JPMorgan Chase just weighed in again on virtual currencies — very discreetly.

The Boston-based Circle has offered several services over the past few years and has shifted its strategy.

As financial services companies cool on gun sales, alternative currencies may step in to pick up the slack.

Venezuela is advertising its groundbreaking state-sponsored cryptocurrency as a means to "promote well-being, bringing power closer to the people.” A lofty goal, but it’s hard to see how the troubled nation’s citizens will be empowered if they can’t even buy it.

Bank of America warns of “substantial” costs from cybercurrencies; First National Bank of Omaha knuckles under to a “barrage” of complaints.

U.K. lawmakers are launching an inquiry into cryptocurrencies to investigate their benefits and risks and consider how the new technology should be regulated.

Long Blockchain Corp., the iced-tea company that jumped in on the cryptocurrency craze, said it was accused by the Nasdaq of possibly misleading investors.

As they cement major partnerships, launch overseas operations and court banks and other institutional investors, top cryptocurrency exchanges now see regulatory approval as a competitive advantage.

Ripple, the San Francisco-based venture looking to rewire financial firms with Bitcoin’s underlying technology, said Latin America’s biggest bank by market value is among five new customers joining its international money-transfer network.

If you haven’t heard of "Dubielcoins," don’t worry. You haven’t missed the latest madness in initial coin offerings. The imaginary means of payment features in a video by a popular Polish YouTuber as part of the central bank’s unorthodox efforts to help raise awareness of the risks posed by virtual currencies.

Despite panicked cries to the contrary on social media and cable news, federal authorities are keeping a careful eye on evolving digital currency markets, as regulators are likely to tell Congress on Tuesday.

Bitfinex, the digital-currency exchange being scrutinized by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, opened an account with ING Groep NV after losing its relationship with Wells Fargo & Co. last year.

Western Union’s long-rumored relationship with Ripple is turning out to be real.

South Korea’s government gave the strongest signal yet that it will allow cryptocurrency exchanges to keep operating in the country, a welcome development for traders who had feared an outright ban in one of the world’s biggest markets for digital assets.

In what could be seen as a mea culpa for CEO Jamie Dimon's disparagement of bitcoin five months ago, the Wall Street megabank has released a big and relatively bullish report on cryptocurrencies.

Fallout from the Fed's blow to Wells Fargo; a call for calm in the rush to regulate cryptocurrencies; point-of-sale lending has its day; and more.

The head of the World Bank compared cryptocurrencies to “Ponzi schemes,” the latest financial voice to raise questions about the legitimacy of digital currencies such as bitcoin.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., sent a letter to two virtual currency trade associations on Thursday asking them what their members are doing to prevent hate groups from using cryptocurrencies to finance themselves.