New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) has entered into a strategic relationship with Figure Technologies to work together on blockchain initiatives, according to a press release. The companies will be using their relationship to add more financial inclusion in banking and credit, cut down costs in...
Launchpool Labs, the community-centric blockchain incubator, will be incubating NOWwhere, an intelligent non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, per a Monday (August 16) press release. NOWwhere is using a “‘Netflix-style’ recommendation engine” that indexes, scores and ranks assets, which the company then uses to connect collectors and...
Although still skeptical, Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez said he is cautiously putting his support behind bitcoin and isn’t ruling out launching a central bank digital currency. During an interview with local media Caja Negra, aired by Filo.news, Fernandez said the concept of bitcoin and digital...
Monaco Market has debuted a new marketplace combining nonfungible tokens (NFTs) technology with real-world collectible goods, a press release said Monday (Aug. 9). The NFTs the platform offers will represent the ownership of sports memorabilia, jewelry, fine art and more. The collectibles will be authenticated...
There will soon be new bitcoin ATMs available in New York City at Circle K locations, a report from The New York Post says. “Our goal is to provide as much access as we possibly can for consumers by putting more ATM machines in all...
Digital asset marketplace Bakkt’s parent company Bakkt Holdings has partnered with sandwich chain Quiznos to roll out a physical location and let Quiznos customers pay with cryptocurrency, a press release says. This will make the capability available in the Denver market, which will include the...
CoinJar Card, a Mastercard product letting users spend their crypto like cash, has been rolled out in Australia, a company blog says. With the card, users will be able to spend the money in their CoinJar to make purchases. Users will be able to select...
One would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t know someone investing in cryptocurrency today. As consumers feel more comfortable in the digital currency waters, legacy financial institutions (FIs) and even regulators are beginning to show signs of support for the technology. But corporates remain...
In A Decade of Digital Transformation in 12 Months, 46 C-suite executives spoke with PYMNTS for its Q2 eBook on what the world will look like as recovery rolls on and the next iteration of normal rolls out. In this excerpt, Aron Schwarzkopf, CEO of...
