PayPal is reportedly planning to buy crypto custody firm Curv, at a price tag of between $200M and $500M, several news outlets reported.
Read MorePayments Canada and the Bank of Canada are in the process of setting up Real-Time Rail (RTR), a network that will allow Canadians to initiate payments and receive irrevocable funds in seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It will launch next year.
Read MoreMerrill, Bank of America’s wealth management arm, is putting its resources where its customers are. The firm has 20 teams catering to ultra-high-net-worth individuals in Florida – those with at least $10M to invest – and plans to double that over the next few years.
Read MoreSquare wants to be a one-stop shop for small businesses, and with the launch of industrial bank Square Financial Services, the new bank will offer businesses deposits and loans.
Read MoreStock trading app Robinhood is in discussions with The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to settle probes into options-trading practices and outages that took place in March of 2020
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Read MoreCoinbase just filed its paperwork to go public through a direct listing, becoming the first cryptocurrency exchange that will list on the Nasdaq.
Read MoreA series of payments systems operated by the Fed went down for several hours on Wednesday due to an “operational error,” affecting multiple services, including the automated clearinghouse system (FedACH), a lifeline that connects financial institutions sending electronic credit and debt transfers.
Read MoreStreamlabs, a Logitech-owned company that specializes in tools to help streamers increase engagement, is including a tipping option in its mobile website builder Willow.
Read MoreThe Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has appointed Sunayna Tuteja, TD Ameritrade’s former head of digital assets and distributed ledger technology, as its chief innovation officer.
Read MoreAlthough its pre-tax profit fell 34% in 2020 compared to the year prior, HSBC’s annual earnings beat expectations despite a tough year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreStandard Chartered Bank India is rolling out a video KYC (know your customer) process for account onboarding, eliminating the need for customers to go to physical branches to validate documents.
Read MoreStripe, a firm whose tools allow merchants to accept payments, has named Mark Carney to its board of directors. Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, is currently the United Nations envoy on climate action and finance.
Read MoreA week after Canada’s central bank confirmed that its plans for a central bank-backed digital currency (CBDC) have accelerated during the pandemic, government-backed digital currencies cleared hurdles in two other markets.
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