Banking News
Mastercard and Paxos Team up to Help Banks Offer Crypto Trading
Mastercard announced Monday that it is extending its partnership with cryptocurrency trading platform Paxos to create a program to make it e...
Celsius Has a $2 Billion Hole, on Track to be Out of Cash by October
Crippled crypto lending platform Celsius, which filed for bankruptcy in July, appears to be in an even worse financial position than previou...
One Billion Crypto Users Predicted by 2030: Global Research Report
A joint report published by Boston Consulting Group, Bitget and Foresight Ventures predicts global crypto adoption could surge to 1 billion ...
Westpac Makes its Tentative First Steps Towards Crypto
After remaining silent on the topic for most of this year, major Australian bank Westpac has indicated its intent to enter the blockchain an...
FTX Finalises Deal with BlockFi, Option to Buy for Up to $240 Million
Embattled crypto lender BlockFi has signed a deal with FTX US, the American arm of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange, which will see FTX...
Ailing Crypto Lender ‘Celsius’ Found to Have Double the Traditional Banking Risk
With an alleged assets-to-equity ratio near double that of the average US bank in late 2021, crypto lender Celsius had taken on far more ris...
ANZ Bank Uses Its Stablecoin A$DC to Buy Tokenised Carbon Credits
The stablecoin created by the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), A$DC, has been used by one of its large institutional customers...
ANZ Bank Pushes Forward With Stablecoin A$DC, But Isn’t That Bullish On Crypto Yet
The Australian and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) wants to extend the usage of its cash-backed stablecoin, A$DC, amid demand for access to ...
Australia’s Big Banks Remain on the Crypto Sideline, For Now
Major banks down under are reportedly vulnerable to losing customers to global ‘super apps’, according to the Australian Financial Revie...
Stripe and OpenNode Join Forces to Bring BTC Payments to Millions of Merchants
Stripe, one of the world’s largest payment processors, is partnering with OpenNode to allow instant fiat-to-bitcoin conversions for a ...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Halts Crypto Trading Pilot Amid Market Turmoil
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) announced this week that it will be halting its rollout of the upcoming in-app crypto trading facil...
Brazil’s Largest Digital Bank Nubank Launches BTC and ETH Trading
Nubank, Brazil’s biggest digital bank by market volume, now allows customers to buy and sell bitcoin and ethereum on its Paxos-support...