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Visa and the World Bank Group's IFC have announced a risk-sharing partnership designed to extend digital financial services to underserved populations in emerging markets.…
UniCredit acquires a minority stake in Frankfurt-based debt transaction platform VC Trade, with an option to increase its holding as Europe's digital debt markets evolve.…
MVB Financial and Velocity join a Visa Direct pilot to enable stablecoin-powered funding and settlement for push-to-card disbursements, marking a significant step in enterprise payments infrastructure.…
A coordinated law enforcement operation froze $52 million in laundered cryptocurrency in one day, marking a significant escalation in the global fight against crypto-enabled fraud networks.…
The FBI has confirmed it is investigating reports that millions of American identity document scans were stolen from an ID verification firm and listed for sale on a dark web service called Nexus.…
Tether partners with Fasanara Capital to launch StableFund, an evergreen private credit vehicle targeting $3 billion in institutional capital, anchored by $400 million in co-investment.…
Consensys is restructuring into two distinct companies, separating MetaMask's consumer wallet business from its Ethereum protocol and institutional blockchain infrastructure operations.…
CCI and the Blockchain Association are escalating their legal fight to halt Illinois' 0.2% crypto transaction tax before it takes effect in January, citing constitutional violations.…
Federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital has filed a court declaration backing a Blockchain Association lawsuit to block Illinois's sweeping crypto tax on exchanges, transfers, and storage.…
Nacha and its Payments Innovation Alliance launch the Next-Gen Currency Project Team to explore stablecoins and tokenized deposits in mainstream money movement.…
PayPal, M0, and MoonPay have unveiled PYUSDx, a developer platform built on PYUSD, debuting with over $100 million in processed volume across three live projects.…
John Marshall Bancorp's $253M acquisition of Eagle Financial Services would nearly triple its branch network and almost double its total assets.…