2020-9-9 16:32 |
Payments giant Mastercard said its new testing platform will simulate the issuance, distribution and utility of digital currencies for central banks. origin »
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Payments giant Mastercard says adoption is the most challenging part for state-issued digital currencies. The second-largest payment-processing provider, Mastercard, sees no prospects for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) shortly, as consumers nowadays are “comfortable using today’s type of money.” In…
2023-11-17 11:44 | |
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Payments giant Mastercard has created a forum where crypto industry players can discuss and collaborate on central bank digital currencies, injecting its influential voice into the CBDC conversation as nations around the world consider whether to digitize their money.
2023-8-17 20:41 | |
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Mastercard keeps its focus on the digital asset industry, echoing moves by its main competitor, Visa.
2021-7-29 15:21 | |
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Visa and Mastercard both made key announcements regarding their stance on digital assets and cryptocurrencies this week. Visa has reaffirmed its relationships with cryptocurrency companies such as Coinbase, Fold, and...
2020-7-24 03:17 | |
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Mastercard said Monday it had granted Wirex principal membership status, becoming the “first” native cryptocurrency outfit to do so. The membership allows Wirex, a London-based digital payments firm, to issue payment cards directly to consumers, making it easier for people to buy, hold and exchange crypto into fiat money.
2020-7-20 16:15 | |
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Multinational financial services company Mastercard has partnered with digital payment platform Wirex, making it Mastercard’s first principal member. This partnership gives Wirex the power to issue payment cards directly to increase convenience, transaction speed, and reduce the cost to its customers.
2020-7-20 14:39 | |
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Consumer interest and investment in digital currencies are growing, with research showing that up to 20 percent of the population of some countries are holding cryptocurrencies, and an increasing number of merchants, digital players, and financial institutions are exploring crypto payments.
2020-7-20 13:13 | |
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On June 11, 2020, the cryptocurrency payment services provider, Bitpay announced the firm is launching a prepaid Mastercard that can be loaded with a variety of digital assets. The Atlanta-based company says the card can be spent anywhere Mastercard is accepted and users can “instantly convert cryptocurrency into fiat currency.
2020-6-12 01:05 | |
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Mastercard, a global payments processor established in December 1966, has joined the ID2020 Alliance, a global partnership made up of Microsoft, Accenture, Gavi, Rockefeller Foundation and others, with the primary goal of maximizing the potential of digital identity to improve lives, according to reports on May 22, 2020.
2020-5-23 00:00 | |
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As the world focuses on battling the global COVID-19 pandemic, a major announcement may have slipped through the cracks. SWIFT, one of the top global payment services, is now in the race to battle Ripple, VISA and MasterCard in offering seamless account to account (A2A) payment services.
2020-4-7 15:57 | |
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Using payment platform Uphold’s new debit card, users can spend their digital assets, cash and commodities at locations that accepts MasterCard
2020-3-5 17:06 | |
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TALLINN, Estonia – DataBridge, an Estonian digital company, is thrilled to announce the official launch of the ITEZ exchange service enabling fast and secure bitcoin trading via VISA and MasterCard credit cards.
2020-1-29 16:23 | |
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After a spate of big names parting ways with the Libra Association late last year such as Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, and Ebay, British telecommunications giant Vodafone has become the latest to bid the ambitious digital asset project farewell.
2020-1-22 10:30 | |
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Global Payments giant Mastercard has created a platform for greater fintech collaboration within the Asia Pacific region. This move comes as the region continues to see an explosion of fintech startups including crypto and blockchain projects looking to target several aspects of the nascent digital economy.
2019-11-11 16:00 | |
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CBDCs might not be so central after all. Digital currencies, until quite recently, were seen as the payment tool of the dark webs of the Internet. If not redirected to the mainstream payment protocol of a Visa or a MasterCard, or picking a payment partner that acted as a mere digital wallet of fiat, the […] The post CBDCs may be centralized, but they won’t be central: IBM Study appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-10-31 16:30 | |
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Facebook’s plan to launch Libra came under further pressure after its partners Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and Stripe announced that they were leaving the digital currency project. And as it turned out, there was some political pushing involved.
2019-10-14 18:05 | |
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Coinspeaker Government Threats Visa, Mastercard and Others that Choose Libra, Says VanEck DirectorDirector, Digital Assets Strategy at VanEck, Gabor Gurbacs, believes that companies are being enforced to leave the crypto-project.
2019-10-14 12:12 | |
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Recently, Stripe, Mastercard, Visa, and eBay left Facebook’s cryptocurrency project Libra, taking this exodus tally to 5, when just a week back PayPal left the Libra Association too. In June, the social media giant unveiled its plan for Libra, announcing its intent to roll out the international digital currency next year. The company said the […]
2019-10-14 02:27 | |
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Rumors that ETH became the second digital defensive asset, “digital silver,” have been exaggerated a little bit. The rise of ETH is associated with the launch of KyberSwap – another one, but really convenient gateway from the fiat world to crypto built on the Ethereum blockchain.
2019-9-17 12:45 | |
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Payments giant Mastercard is seeking to hire several blockchain execs to lead cryptocurrency and digital wallet projects.
2019-8-5 13:15 | |
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A sizeable number of banks do not allow their customers to purchase bitcoin with credit cards. But according to billionaire investor Mike Novogratz, that distrust will eventually change. The founder of U.
2019-7-4 23:00 | |
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Майк Новограц, являющийся главой Galaxy Digital, рассказал, что в течение 18 месяцев самые крупные мировые платежные системы, среди которых Visa и MasterCard, начнут принимать биткоин. Причиной этому послужит достижение психологической отметки в 20 тысяч долларов, после которой криптовалютный рынок должен преобразиться.
2019-6-29 14:10 | |
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По мнению генерального директора компании Galaxy Digital Майка Новограца, в течение ближайших 18 месяцев крупнейшие платежные системы Visa и MasterCard начнут обрабатывать транзакции с биткоином. Свою точку зрения миллиардер высказал во время беседы с журналистами телеканала CNBC.
2019-6-28 14:12 | |
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Facebook‘s Libra partners have reportedly signed non-binding agreements, meaning they’re not obliged to promote or use the digital token and can abandon the project if they decide to do so. According to the New York Times, which cites anonymous executives from seven of Facebook‘s partners, some of the companies are being cautious about associating themselves too closely with Libra due to the company’s ongoing issues with regulators.
2019-6-26 11:25 | |
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful has partnered with crypto services provider The White Company to give Paxful customers the ability to cash out bitcoins into prepaid cards in multiple currencies, the companies said on Thursday.
2019-6-21 23:41 | |
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Facebook has begun assembling a who’s who of big tech companies to back its soon to be unveiled cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin. The likes of Mastercard, Visa, Uber, and PayPal are all backing the social media giant’s upcoming digital coin due to be unveiled later this month, and officially rolled out next year, reports The Wall St Journal.
2019-6-14 11:49 | |
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Crypto Is Cheaper Than Visa, Mastercard, Traditional Payment Systems Since Bitcoin (BTC) garnered some semblance of traction, it has been touted as a viable alternative to traditional digital payment rails, like Visa, Mastercard, or PayPal.
2019-4-19 05:39 | |
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The market for cryptocurrencies has exploded, and despite the bearish streak, their use and volume has grown more than practically any other asset ( either digital or physical) in the same period of time.
2019-4-5 09:00 | |
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A new report by the software firm DataLight predicted that Bitcoin could become the world’s top payment system within the next decade if it maintains its current growth rate.
2019-4-5 21:51 | |
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BitMart Exchange, a premier global digital asset trading platform, recently announced the listing of Huddl (HUDDL). HUDDL/BTC and HUDDL/ETH trading pairs will be available starting at 9:00 AM (EDT) on April 3.
2019-4-4 16:37 | |
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Since Bitcoin (BTC) garnered some semblance of traction, it has been touted as a viable alternative to traditional digital payment rails, like Visa, Mastercard, or PayPal. As ShapeShift Erik Voorhees said in a recent interview, BTC, unlike centralized digital monies, is free to use (accessible), borderless, and uncensorable — arguably making it a perfect substitute.
2019-3-27 19:31 | |
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Binance will enable merchants to utilize Visa and MasterCard to purchase a wide scope of crypto, successfully offering a fiat to the crypto entryway. The move could be provisional for charge cards in any case, as card guarantors could prevent the utilization from claiming credit for crypto buys.
2019-2-1 08:54 | |
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Our vision is to make crypto-shopping, possible for everyone everywhere. While the demand for attractive and innovative payment options with crypto currencies con¬tinues to rise, there are no real impulses on the provider side for applications of crypto cur¬rencies.
2019-1-30 17:36 | |
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Our vision is to make crypto-shopping, short „crypping“, possible for everyone everywhere. While the demand for attractive and innovative payment options with crypto currencies con¬tinues to rise, there are no real impulses on the provider side for applications of crypto cur¬rencies.
2019-1-30 02:33 | |
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Our vision is to make crypto-shopping, short „crypping“, possible for everyone everywhere. While the demand for attractive and innovative payment options with crypto currencies con¬tinues to rise, there are no real impulses on the provider side for applications of crypto cur¬rencies.
2019-1-29 07:03 | |
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Focus On Bitcoin, Not BTC Since Bitcoin (BTC) burst onto the digital scene in 2009, the innovation, first headed by Satoshi Nakamoto, has been lauded as an optimized, decentralized version of Visa, Mastercard, and the like.
2019-1-16 00:08 | |
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Shopping online is meant to be ease . . Online shopping 'unease' with foreign currencies? Anxious about the privacy of your Credit/Debit card information? 'GBPT' is an online store that will offer electronic products from the top 10 Electronics brands and some more with most used products, not only this but also will offer the Best Bitcoin Mining Hardware (Bitmain).
2018-11-27 16:02 | |
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In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal.
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
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Mastercard’s research and development wing is looking into the implications of blockchain and other cutting-edge technologies to increase general efficiency at the firm. The Ireland-based subsidiary of the international payments giant has been responsible for various innovations in the six years since its formation.
2018-9-27 01:15 | |
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Платежный гигант Mastercard тестирует новую услугу — безналичные переводы с применением технологии токенизации. Пока что функция доступна только владельцам карт компании на территории России. Об этом сообщила пресс-служба Mastercard.
2018-8-28 14:53 | |
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NetCents cryptocurrency credit card will be accepted at 40 million merchant locations globally in an effort to directly compete with Visa and Mastercard. The company will also integrate its loyalty programme with its crypto credit cards to encourage and reward users for spending digital currencies.
2018-8-28 04:00 | |
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Developers of the Chanjinn project want to create the ultimate payment solution for the world. This will be reliable and easy to use a digital wallet; it will let you access crypto and pay via Mastercard and Visa.
2018-8-4 22:09 | |
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As the price of bitcoin surpassed the $8,000 region, analysts and experts in the cryptocurrency sector have become more positive regarding the mid-term trend of major digital assets. Spencer Bogart: The Bitcoin Low Might Already Be In It was recently revealed that Mastercard had secured a patent for linking fiat bank accounts and cryptocurrencies.
2018-7-26 17:27 | |
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Consumers might one day be able to charge their purchases on their credit cards using bitcoin as a currency. On Tuesday, Mastercard won a patent to protect a method that would manage “fractional reserves of blockchain currency.
2018-7-18 20:13 | |
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Mastercard have applied for a new blockchain patent. Yep – another one. Is there a limit to how many patents you can apply for in one year? The document outlines its particular goal: quickening merchant transactions that use cryptocurrencies.
2018-7-18 13:19 | |
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Paybis, a UK based cryptocurrency, and digital currency exchange platform, recently announced that the platform has added support for XRP tokens. They have partnered with Simplex to set up the MasterCard and Visa transactions.
2018-7-16 08:54 | |
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On 13th July, Abra announced that the digital wallet application will now allow the use of Visa and MasterCard for Bitcoin [BTC] transactions. The wallet aims to make buying and selling of cryptocurrencies simpler and easily accessible with this move as these are the most commonly used credit/debit cards. Abra’s tweet | Source: Twitter Users can […]
2018-7-13 22:12 | |
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Bitcoin payment startup Abra has announced the addition of Visa and Mastercard payment options for buying bitcoin on its platform. The new payment option is in partnership with fintech company Simplex, per the company’s blog post.
2018-7-13 00:38 | |
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Chanjinn is an “all-in-one” payment ecosystem. We provide a reliable and easy-to-use digital wallet (mobile application), access to your crypto assets, the ability to pay by Visa and Mastercard; a number of innovative features to ensure financial comfort.
2018-7-8 22:07 | |
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Tether has announced the expansion of its USDT token to an eighth blockchain.
The FMA reports two-thirds of the investment fraud reports filed in 2020 were related to cryptocurrency and digital currency trading products.
This is the second bitcoin ETF approved to trade in Canada.
Geely will own 80% of the venture while Concordium will own the rest.
Gates has previously criticized cryptocurrencies and said he'd short bitcoin "if there was an easy way to do it."
A new tie-up with payments firm Klarna brings the exchange access to more than 5,000 banks across Europe.
Local firm Bitcoin Suisse has partnered with the canton of Zug, converting cryptocurrency tax payments into Swiss francs.