Cryptocurrency
Shares in Signature Bank fell by 29% in early May as cryptocurrency prices plunged. But after the bank’s chairman and outside analysts sent reassuring messages to investors, the New York bank has regained much of the ground it lost.
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While red states like Florida have embraced the cryptocurrency industry, officials in New York and Illinois are taking action on Democratic Party priorities such as diversity and climate change. Here's a look at some hotbeds of innovative policymaking.
May 18 -
Amid fresh competition from newcomers seeking to build brand recognition, banks that sponsor pro sports teams are leaning into content that tells a story about their connections to local communities.
May 9
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Britain’s prior approach to regulating financial technology has been held up as the de facto bar, industry executives say — but on crypto, its more risk-averse outlook has stymied the sector’s growth.
April 20 -
A few months after cutting ties with its Diem stablecoin project, the company formerly known as Facebook is testing a virtual world marketplace.
April 13 -
The children's research hospital is tapping into the fast-growing market for digital currency donations and NFT sales to appeal to millennials, who are more likely to have crypto investments.
March 21 -
The upgrades merchants made to accept chip cards and mobile wallets have made it easier to add new services via software updates. NCR and other point-of-sale vendors are using these systems to support digital currencies without requiring new hardware.
February 3 -
If the payments company moves ahead with a digital currency rollout, its network of merchants and consumers as well as its retail-payments focus could give it the upper hand over banks, whose products are limited to cryptocurrency exchanges, wholesale payments and other specific uses.
January 11
