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Amazon is among the large retailers that are considering a stablecoin. Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg In addition to big banks, large merchants are also taking notice of the…

Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is getting into the credit card business. The company later this summer will roll out the Coinbase One Card, a co-branded American…

Tether is leaning on emerging markets and cross-border payments to compete with banks. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg Tether controls more than half of the world’s stablecoin market, but…

For cryptocurrency fintech and stablecoin issuer Circle, going public has long been part of the plan. “A few years ago, in 2017-2018, when we created USDC, we…

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Visa has rolled out Visa A2A, its account-to-account payment scheme, in the U.K., allowing customers to manage bills and subscriptions through their banking…

Consumer adoption of account-to-account payments has been slow to catch on as the novel payment scheme looks to differentiate itself from ever-popular credit card rewards. Payments…

Wearables provide another option for contactless payments. Woohae Cho/Bloomberg Move over, smart watches: There’s a new generation of wearable technology expected to upend the payments space.The…

Bank of America’s global payments business touches a lot of money. $450 trillion per year, facilitated in 150 currencies across 60 countries and more than 100…

JPMorgan Chase has one of the world’s largest payment operations. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase’s Max Neurkirchen has recruited at universities for more than a dozen years.…

Blockchain and digital currency company Circle is pushing forward with its initial public offering, the company said today, ending over a month of speculation about the…