Banking news articles
Mastercard Partners with Aussie Crypto Exchange in Effort to Tackle Debanking
Australian crypto exchange BTC Markets has entered a partnership with Mastercard, allowing it to accept card payments. This will mean more o...
Australia Explores Multi-CBDC Platform For International Settlements
The central banks of Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa, in conjunction with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), have...
ANZ Becomes First Bank to Mint Aussie Dollar Stablecoin A$DC
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) has concluded a historic transaction in which its newly created stablecoin pegged to t...
ANZ Bank Exploring Hedera DeFi Services For Its 8.5 Million Customers
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), one of Australia’s ‘Big Four’ banks, is tapping into the growing demand for...
US Bank Facilitates First Over-The-Counter Bitcoin Transaction
Goldman Sachs (GS) has become the first financial institution to make an over-the-counter (OTC) crypto options trade as it expands its digit...
Commonwealth Bank Says It Intends to Heavily Invest in More Crypto-Related Services
A digital assets specialist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has confirmed the bank’s intentions to invest more into crypto facil...
$3 Trillion Financial Services Giant HSBC Enters the Metaverse with Sandbox
One of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations – with assets worth US$2,958 billion as at December 31, ...
American Express Ventures into NFTs and the Metaverse
American Express has followed the lead of payments peers Visa and Mastercard in exploring Web3 applications and planting its digital footpri...
Mastercard to Offer Crypto and NFT Consulting Services, May Help Develop CBDCs
Mastercard has announced plans to cater to open banking, ESGs, open data, and crypto and digital currencies, by expanding its payments-focus...
Zambia Exploring CBDCs but Remains Anti-Crypto
The Zambian central bank has revealed that it is in the process of researching central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and plans to impleme...
South Korea Becomes 14th Nation to Successfully Complete Phase 1 CBDC Trial
The first phase of South Korea’s CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) trial has been successfully completed, as per an announcement from t...
Visa Partners with ConsenSys to Pilot CBDC
American multinational payments giant Visa has partnered with ConsenSys, a blockchain software tech company, to build the proper infrastruct...