Crypto threatens safety of payment schemes, Starling boss warns

Starling CEO Anne Boden. Harry Murphy | Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images AMSTERDAM — The boss of Goldman Sachs-backed digital bank Starling has doubled down on criticisms of crypto, calling ...

Checkout.com jumps into crypto with stablecoin payments feature

The logo for payments start-up Checkout.com. Checkout.com AMSTERDAM — Online payments company Checkout.com says it will settle payments for its merchants round-the-clock using stablecoins, making it t...

Ethereum could ‘take over everything’, and there won’t be a multi-chain future, says EY’s blockchain leader

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch, and I’ll walk you through the latest an...

PayPal borrows $3 billion to help fund debt buyback plan

PayPal Holdings Inc. hit the market on Monday with a $3 billion corporate bond financing to help the online money-transfer and payments giant fund a $2 billion tender offer for its own debt. The four-...

15 stocks that have fallen at least 33% but by these measures are still standouts in their sectors

During a year in which more than half of the stocks in the S&P 500 Index have declined 10% or more, you have probably seen the term “oversold” being bandied about. But what does oversold really me...

Buy now, pay later is not a boom, it’s a bubble, Harvard fellow says

Most people love the convenience of buy now, pay later. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, installment payments have exploded in popularity along with a general surge in online shopping. Ini...

SoFi stock falls, trading halted after fintech firm accidentally releases Q1 report

Shares of SoFi fell sharply on Tuesday and were halted for nearly three hours after the company accidentally released its first-quarter results early. The company said the report, which was scheduled ...

Coinbase shares plunge almost 80% from November high, amid selloffs of crypto stocks and funds

Shares of crypto-related companies and funds ended sharply lower Monday, with Coinbase’s shares finishing at the lowest level in history, as both bitcoin and major U.S. stock indexes finished at multi...

Klarna to report buy now, pay later data to UK credit bureaus

Buy now, pay later giant Klarna says it will start reporting data on customers’ usage of its products to credit bureaus in the U.K., gearing up for incoming regulations aimed at reining in the s...

Many tech stocks that have crashed are still too expensive to buy

I came across this list of crashed big cap tech stocks on Twitter on April 23: I’ve analyzed every one of those stocks over the last year. When thousands of stocks are down 70%-80% or even 90%, there ...

Meta, McDonald’s, Teladoc, Ford and more

Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Meta Platforms — Shares of the company formerly known as Facebook surged 17% after reporting mixe...

Meta, Teladoc, Pinterest, Qualcomm and more

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Meta, Qualcomm, Ford, PayPal and more

Woman holds smartphone with Meta logo in front of a displayed Facebook’s new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Check out the companies m...

Gibraltar unveils new cryptocurrency rules against market manipulation

The overseas British territory wants to become a global hub for crypto firms. Geography Photos | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Gibraltar has unveiled new regulations for the cryptocurrency ind...

PayPal has been cut in half by Wall Street, but ‘uncertainty’ still looms as earnings approach

After losing more than half its value so far this year, PayPal Holdings Inc. still faces ‘uncertainty’ from Wall Street. PayPal PYPL, +2.03% was an investor darling in the early days of the COVID-19 c...

Three reasons this struggling fintech stock may break out of its slump

PayPal tumbled 16% this week, but one top analyst is making a bullish long-term case for the struggling stock. The company’s underperformance follows leadership uncertainty. PayPal’s chief...

Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...

Stripe launches crypto payments feature, with Twitter as first client

Illustrative image of two commemorative bitcoins with a green background. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Stripe will allow businesses to pay their users via cryptocurrencies, starting with Twit...

How an Etsy founder feels about e-commerce platform as sellers strike

Executives of Etsy applaud as they open the Nasdaq MarketSite ahead of Etsy’s initial public offering in New York, April 16, 2015. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images In this weekly series,...

JPMorgan, Delta Air Lines, PayPal

The JP Morgan Chase & Co. headquarters, The JP Morgan Chase Tower in Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan, New York. Tim Clayton – Corbis | Corbis Sport | Getty Images Check out the companies mak...

Delta, JPMorgan, BlackRock and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Delta Air Lines (DAL) – Delta rallied 6.6% in the premarket after reporting a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and predicting a current-qu...

Walmart hires PayPal executive as its chief financial officer

Artur Widak | NurPhoto | Getty Images Walmart said Tuesday that is has hired PayPal executive John Rainey to become its new chief financial officer. Rainey, the chief financial officer of financial te...

Cardano leads rises as largest cryptocurrencies start mixed

The largest cryptocurrencies were mixed during morning trading on Monday, with Cardano ADAUSD seeing the biggest move, rising 2.96% to $1.21. Polkadot DOTUSD led the decreases with a 2.79% drop to $22...

How 9 ‘pandemic plays’ that rallied Monday will respond

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday said that some of the pandemic-era winners that rallied on Monday will be able to hold onto their recovery while others will flounder. “When you see all the so-...

Some of the first quarter’s biggest losers could be the biggest steals, Jim Cramer says

Investors should consider purchasing stock of the first quarter’s biggest losers if the market shows signs of recovering on its own, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “This market’...

Ethereum’s major upgrade is coming. Should you be more bullish on it than bitcoin?

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch, and I’ll walk you through the latest an...

Crypto firms face being booted from UK as FCA register deadline nears

A novelty Bitcoin token photographed on a £10 note. Matt Cardy | Getty Images LONDON — A slew of cryptocurrency companies could be forced to wind down their business in the U.K. if they fail to regist...

Largest cryptocurrencies mixed as Cardano rises

The largest cryptocurrencies were mixed during morning trading on Thursday, with Cardano ADAUSD, -0.12% seeing the biggest move, rallying 2.82% to 85 cents. Polkadot DOTUSD, +0.62% led the decreases w...

The 8 worst-performing S&P 500 stocks with the highest ratings are expected to rebound by more than 50% over the next year

Investors don’t need to be told that stocks have been volatile. There’s a market of extremes as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues and investors wait to see what the Federal Open Market Committee does ...

Amazon, Netflix, Bumble and more

Netflix logo Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Bumble — Shares of the online dating company surged more than 43% in midday tradi...

Investing app Acorns taps ‘choppy’ private markets at $1.9 billion valuation after scrapping SPAC

Noah Kerner, CEO of Acorns. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Acorns, the fintech start-up that scrapped plans to go public in January, has raised $300 million from private investors, CNBC has learned. The savings ...

PayPal suspends its services in Russia over Ukraine war

The PayPal app shown on an iPhone. Katja Knupper | DeFodi Images | Getty Images PayPal said Saturday it was suspending its services in Russia, adding to the number of firms retreating from the country...