Wormhole, the messaging protocol enabling cross-blockchain communications, has raised a staggering US$225m in new funding Messaging protocol company Wormhole, which enables communications across different blockchains, has generated an astronomical...
Digital Canadian Dollar Public Consultation Report Forum Research, in collaboration with the Bank of Canada, conducted an online public consultation to gather community views and preferences from across Canada...
Treasury select committee highlights concerns over data privacy and increased possibility of bank runs Kalyeena Makortoff The idea of creating a digital pound should not even be considered until...
CBDCs are “a disaster for privacy”: The Government Must Listen To Warnings From Around The World And Rethink The Digital Pound Warnings from around the world show that a...
A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is an electronic form of central bank money that can be used to make payments.1 A CBDC can be designed for use between...
BUYING AND SELLING CRYPTOCURRENCIES is a big business. Bitcoin, for example, processed US $3 trillion worth of transactions in 2021, more than double what American Express did. But most...
Zepz, the money transfer group that owns WorldRemit, made a fresh round of layoffs.The British fintech unicorn, which is backed by TCV, Accel, Leapfrog and other major venture capital...
A recent report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that Apple and Goldman Sachs are ending the partnership they made in 2019 to introduce the Apple Card. Although the...
By Ron Shevlin OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK Prediction: By the end of this decade, bank-fintech partnerships will be a thing of the past. This prediction flies in...
Hacker group ALPHV is claiming to possess extensive amounts of data from Israeli fintech unicorn Tipalti, which specializes in developing automation solutions for payments. The group is threatening to...