Beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange FTX and affiliated companies have announced the resumption of employee salary payments and benefits. However, the payments will exclude former CEO Sam Bankman-Frie...
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FTX Resumes Payments to Its Employees Following Bankruptcy
27 mins ago | 2 mins read Exchange News FTX is resuming ordinary course payment of salary and benefits to its worldwide employees. The payments will exclude FTX’s former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried. FTX, t...
FTX making non-U.S. vendor payments, depositing salaries
FTX Trading and approximately 101 additional affiliated companies said most subsidiaries are resuming ordinary course payments of salaries to employees worldwide and ordinary course payments to certai...
Putin Wants Blockchain-Based International Payments System
The Russian president has criticized the number of sanctions imposed upon the country by the west and has called for a payment system independent from external interference. Putin Calls Sanctions “Il...
Airbnb’s Winter 2022 Release — Faster Payments And New Features For All
| Getty Images Key Takeaways Despite facing macroeconomic issues, Airbnb announced its most profitable quarter ever as regular travel closes in on pre-pandemic levels. Airbnb’s stock dropped after pos...
Amid Twitter Payments Talk, Michael Saylor To Buy Dogecoin?
Michael Saylor Dogecoin News: Microstrategy cofounder Michael Saylor has been interacting with Elon Musk on Twitter in recent times. With his strong support for Bitcoin (BTC) well known, the crypto co...
Russia’s President Envisions a Global Payments System With Blockchain Technology
Priorities change according to the events, and Russia’s president may be taking notice. In a recent speech at the Artificial Intelligence Journey 2022 international AI and machine learning conference,...
Will Dogecoin Payments on Twitter become a Reality? Elon hints…
In his latest tweet, Elon Musk announces plans to make Twitter 2.0 a reality. One particular slide talks about Twitter payments, which was left empty. Crypto enthusiasts started speculating about the ...
Twitter 2.0 to incorporate crypto payments? Elon shares the latest upgrades
Twitter 2.0 is up and Elon’s team is delivering impressive results. Now that a crypto-friendly Elon Musk is at the helm of the platform, blockchain enthusiasts can now hope for a better attitude towar...
UK Bank Starling Blocks Payments to Crypto Platforms — Claims Crypto Is High Risk, Heavily Used for Criminal Purposes – Finance Bitcoin News
Starling Bank has informed its customers that the bank no longer supports fund transfers to cryptocurrency platforms, including crypto exchanges. The bank stated that cryptocurrencies “are high risk a...
Luxury Retailer True Facet Greenlights Crypto Payments
True Facet – an online marketplace that sells used watches and jewels – has partnered with Bit Pay, a leading provider of digital currency payment services, to permit shoppers to checkout and purchase...
LYOMERCHANT is Here to Help Make Payments With Crypto
As everyone takes a step ahead in the future and starts adopting cryptocurrencies as a mode of payment for day-to-day transactions, what we need now is an organized and modern crypto payment gateway t...
Calypso Pay Lets Its Users Accept Near-Instant Bitcoin Payments with Lightning
Place/Date: Tel Aviv, Israel – November 23rd, 2022 at 2:00 pm UTC · 2 min read Source: Calypso Pay Calypso Pay, a high-volume crypto processing & acquiring platform of Calypso Group, has add...
Starling Bank Halts Crypto Card Payments Citing ‘High Risk’
Starling Bank, a digital challenger bank based in the UK, halted the crypto card payments, citing that crypto activities are “high risk.” Starling Bank is a digital challenger bank, having more than a...
Bitcoin Will Become ‘Less Important’ for Cybercrime Payments: Kaspersky
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky reported that ransomware negotiations and payments may soon come to rely less on Bitcoin as a means of payment. The Russian-founded firm attributed this transition to i...
Calypso Pay Adds Support For Lightning And Now Enables Its Users Send And Receive Payments Faster
Tel Aviv, November 23 – Calypso Pay today announces it added support for Bitcoin Lightning Network enabling almost free and near-instant BTC transfers. Along with Lightning, Calypso Pay utilizes autom...
Biden Pauses Student Loan Payments Through June
Topline The Department of Education will extend the suspension on payments toward federally held student loans for an additional six months, as President Joe Biden’s plan to permanently forgive many A...
Fed Hawkishness Peaks as Rising Debt Payments Erode Savings
(Bloomberg) — Tighter Federal Reserve policy is raising households’ interest-rate burden, leading to a rapid decline in excess savings and underscoring the likelihood hawkishness has peaked. Mos...
WooCommerce Merchants Can Now Accept Payments in Bitcoin, DOGE Via Coinbase
– Advertisement – Coinbase has partnered with WooCommerce, enabling merchants to accept payments in BTC, DOGE, and other cryptos. WooCommerce, an open-source customizable e-commerce plugin...
FalconX resumes use of Silvergate’s payment network
FalconX, the crypto prime broker, resumed use of Silvergate’s payment network after pressing pause on the partnership last week. “Due to the heightened risk environment and Silvergate’s wire pay...
CEO of Payments Giant Visa Details What’s Needed in Crypto To Regain User Confidence After ‘FTX Disaster’
The CEO of payments giant Visa says that more regulation is needed for the crypto space to regain user confidence after the FTX collapse. In a new interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, the outgoing Visa C...
Crypto Snack Enables RCD Espanyol to Become the First Football Club to Integrate Crypto Payments
[PRESS RELEASE – Tallinn, Estonia, 17th November 2022] Crypto Snack, a global pioneer in cryptocurrency payment solutions, today announced the start of its first phase to enable La Liga’s RCD Espanyol...
Ripple Partners With Africa-Focused Remittances and Payments Firm MSF Africa – Fintech Bitcoin News
Ripple, the United States-based tech firm, has said its crypto solution known as “on-demand liquidity” is set to help MSF Africa “streamline real-time mobile payments for customers in 35 countries.” T...
Fintech firm TrueLayer to power Coinbase payments, eyes stablecoins
Fintech unicorn TrueLayer is partnering with Coinbase to enable UK users to top up their accounts via their mobile banking app. This is part of a broader push into digital assets as the open-banking c...
Luxury Hotel In Dubai Enrolls Payments In Shiba Inu Coin
Although higher market volatility has changed the investors’ sentiment, it didn’t stop the global crypto-centric developments. For example, Dubai, which showed keen interest in cryptocurrency and web ...
Crypto Payments With USDC Now On Apple Pay
Crypto payments in Circle’s USDC will now be offered for select businesses on Apple Pay. The payments will be enabled for quick checkout for regular digital payments mode, Circle said. The payments wi...
How Bitcoin Payments Can Benefit Your Business
The way we make online payments is evolving as the world gets more computerized. Bitcoin is a distributed cryptocurrency that provides a safe, quick, and inexpensive means to conduct online payments. ...
Zoksh Aims to Become Revolutionary Web3 Payments System by Being Easy to Use and Affordable
Place/Date: – November 14th, 2022 at 11:10 am UTC · 4 min read Source: Zoksh Photo: Zoksh With all of the advancements being made in emerging technologies such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, blockch...
Breakthrough: Future XB Payment Summit 2022 Fast-tracks Cross Border Payments Innovation and Collaboration in Dubai, UAE
The most-awaited Future XB Payment Summit 2022 unfolds on Tuesday, the 15th, and continues up to 16 November 2022 at The Address Hotel, Dubai Mall, Dubai, United Arab Emirates with a full cast of thou...
Payments company Curve bids for BlockFi’s 87,000 credit card customers
Payments company Curve is in active discussions to acquire crypto lender BlockFi’s more than 87,000 credit card customers — whose credit cards have been suspended since Nov. 11. A Curve spokesp...
Africa-Focused Payments Firm AZA Finance Slams ‘Erroneous Inclusion’ in FTX Bankruptcy Filing – Featured Bitcoin News
The founder and CEO of an Africa-focused payments firm, Elizabeth Rossiello, claimed on Nov. 11 that the beleaguered crypto exchange FTX had incorrectly included AZ Finance in its chapter 11 bankruptc...