Ripple aims to use XRP for cross-border settlement and liquidity, not to replace SWIFT’s banking communication system.

Faced with Trump's tariffs and threats, BRICS countries are trying to reduce dollar use in trading with each other.

Iran's central bank amassed $507M in USDT to dodge sanctions, using crypto tactics to access offshore liquidity.

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Upstart payment providers are taking the world by storm. It’s time for investors to buy in, says Rupert Hargreaves ...

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The report revealed that cardholders in the U.S. earned more than $40 billion in rewards in 2022. But cardholders didn’t ...

Markets have been surprised by the eruption of the financial crisis on August 9. But a number of analysts had drawn attention to the risks stemming from the co-existence of excessive liquidity, ...

Looking back on the payments industry in 2025, the year was defined by the long-anticipated completion of SWIFT’s global migration to the ISO 20022 messaging standard, as well as the “summer of ...

Banking giant HSBC and Singapore-based Ant International successfully connected Ant’s blockchain infrastructure to Swift’s ...