PayPal Holdings will allow customers in the UK to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies starting this week, the company said on Monday.The roll-out, whi
A person claiming to be the hacker says they wanted to expose the platform's vulnerability and it was "always the plan" to return the tokens.
While crypto exchanges have demystified some of the largest cryptocurrencies for retail investors, many of the intricacies of decentralized finance are still lost on even more savvy investors as a res
Anchorage has raised an $80 million Series C funding round led by GIC, also known as Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. Andreessen Horowitz, Blockchain Capital, Lux and Indico are also participating i
Blockchain.com has announced that it has raised a $120 million funding round. The company develops a popular cryptocurrency wallet as well as an exchange, an explorer and more.Moore Strategic Ventures
Latin America (LATAM) is home to one of the fastest-growing mobile markets in the world. In 2018, there were 326 million mobile internet users in the region, and that figure is anticipated to increase
China's official app for the digital yuan is seen on a mobile phone next to 100-yuan banknotes in this illustration picture taken on October 16, 2020. /Reuters China's digital currency and phy
Mobile cryptocurrency wallet BRD announced today that it now has more than six million users worldwide, thanks to strong growth in India and Latin America. With this momentum, the company expects to r
Stripe has led a $12 million Series A round in Manila-based online payment platform PayMongo, the startup announced today.PayMongo, which offers an online payments API for businesses in the Philippin
Cross-border financial transactions are a major headache for individuals and large companies alike, who often have to deal with long wait times and high fees in order to send money to recipients in ot
Indian consumer appliance company, Orient Electric has launched a box-shaped sanitisation chamber at 160 U.S. dollars that uses ultra-violet (UV-C) light to kill virus
Visa has prioritized growth in Africa, and partnering with startups is central to its strategy.This became obvious in 2019 after the global financial services giant entered a series of collaborations
The U.S. mobile landscape is on track to look a whole lot different. A hotly contested $26 billion deal between T-Mobile and Sprint just got the go ahead from a U.S. district court judge. The merger w
WhenthecallofdutykeptasoldierinJammuandKashmirthisDiwali,heusedhisPaytmdigitalwallettotransferagiftofRs1,001tohisfamilyinRaipur.AgovernmentofficialpostedintheAn
Morethan£108,000inbitcoinpaidbyvictimsoftheWannaCryransomwareattack,whichcrippledpartsoftheNHSaswellasbusinessesin150countriesworldwide,hasbeenwithdrawnfromthed