Finance
Block Seeks U.S. Trust Bank Charter for Bitcoin and Stablecoin Custody
Block is seeking to deepen its position in digital financial infrastructure by applying to establish a federally regulated U.S. trust bank called Builders ...
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Revolut Targets FTSE 250 Companies as It Takes on Traditional Corporate Banks
Revolut is stepping up its challenge to traditional banks by targeting FTSE 250 companies as part of an aggressive expansion into corporate banking. ...
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Gulf Markets Lose Momentum as Iran Tensions Push Oil Toward $100
Gulf stock markets struggled to build momentum on Tuesday as renewed U.S.-Iran tensions and attacks on energy infrastructure pushed crude prices closer to ...
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Citi to Introduce Dynamic CVC Virtual Credit Cards in Hong Kong to Strengthen Online Payment Security
Citi Hong Kong is preparing to launch a virtual credit card featuring a dynamic Card Validation Code (CVC) in partnership with Mastercard, adding ...
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KB Kookmin Bank Partners JPMorgan to Bring Blockchain-Based Corporate Payments to Korean Businesses
South Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank is expanding its use of blockchain infrastructure through a partnership with JPMorgan, launching a corporate payment service designed ...
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DBS and Citi Complete Weekend US Dollar Payment Using Tokenised Deposits
Singapore-based DBS and Citigroup have completed a cross-border US dollar payment between Singapore and the United States using tokenised deposits, demonstrating how blockchain-based ...
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Instant Payments Can’t Be Undone. Visa Wants to Be the One That Stops the Fraud
Instant bank-to-bank transfers are one of the great conveniences of modern payments and one of its great vulnerabilities. Money moves in seconds and, ...
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TabaPay Is Buying Its Own Bank. The Ghost of Synapse Explains Why
TabaPay, a payments-infrastructure company that moves money for fintechs and lenders, has raised $155 million and announced it is buying a bank. The ...
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America’s Community Banks Are Building Their Own Blockchain. It’s Really a Defense of Their Deposits
Thirty-nine state bankers associations have joined forces to build something their industry has never had: a blockchain network the banks themselves own. Called ...
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India Wants AI Agents Paying on UPI, as a Public Standard, Not a Corporate One
Around the world, the race to let AI agents make payments has been a corporate scramble, with Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and others each ...


















