UK retailers are exploring alternative payment options and moving away from traditional cash payments due to relatively high costs, according to a new survey compiled by payments provider Sage Pay. The company's research reveals that UK retailers now spend a whopping £17.8bn (almost $30bn) a....
Luxury clothing designer brand Gucci has announced that it will soon begin accepting Dogecoin payments in its retail stores. Dogecoin has been a formidable contender when it comes to the payments space due to it having not only a very large supporter base but also being a cryptocurrency with....
Crypto payments are inevitable at this point. And it looks like the big shots know this too. U.S. retail giant Walmart has sparked a lot of speculations in the market with its recent ad posting. The posting which was made on LinkedIn said that the company was in search of a digital and....
The government of Venezuela is considering a new redenomination of its fiat currency. The proposal that is under study would cut six zeroes from the inflation-affected Bolivar. This would aid companies in processing taxes and provider payments that are absurdly complex with today’s....
Online retail giant Newegg has announced on Twitter that Shiba Inu payments are “coming soon” to the platform. Newegg Set To Add Shiba Inu Payment Option Soon The retail website announced on its official Twitter a couple of days back that the memecoin SHIB is coming to the platform.....
A few days ago, the European Central Bank announced how instant payments will become possible throughout all of Europe by November 2017. To make this idea become a reality, the Euro Retail Payments Board will partner with the European Payments Council to create a scheme enabling instant payments....
Grupo Famsa, one of the largest household appliance-, electronic products- and consumer products-focused retail company in Mexico has begun accepting bitcoin payments with a partnership with BitPay, a leading bitcoin payment processor. Mexican bitcoin exchange Bitso shared the news on its....
Konzum has enabled bitcoin payments in its online shop, with plans to soon add the option in its physical stores.
The FCA has published final rules banning the sale of derivatives and exchange traded notes (ETNs) that reference certain types of cryptoassets to retail consumers. The FCA said it considers these products to be ill-suited for retail consumers due to the harm they pose, asserting these products....
Bitcoin has spread its wings far and wide and no nation has been left out. All around the globe, there is bitcoin adoption going on, both as a payment method as well as an investment option. The latest company to implement bitcoin as a method is Croatian supermarket giant, Konzum. The move was....
Bitcoin has recently fallen below a $32,000 critical hold point and in response, retail investors have taken this as an opportunity to make money from the falling bitcoin price. So far, retail investors have started loading up on shorts, an incredibly bearish metric for the market. Retail....
Retail digital payments are growing, but the country needs to implement further payment and financial inclusion reforms before a retail CBDC will be needed. The Philippines will pursue a wholesale central bank digital currency pilot project, to be called Project CBDCPh, Bangko Sentral ng....
The payment processing start-up, Pinn has topped the retail segment of the recently concluded Plug and Play accelerator cohort demo day. Founded by Will Summerlin and Nick Auriana with Kyle Crews as a lead engineer, the company enables bitcoin and fiat payments for merchants. Pinn's unique point....
Digital payments can deliver better immediacy and ubiquity than traditional retail payment systems and, therefore, could revolutionize payments, according to a recent Deutsche Bank research paper. The paper, titled "Instant revolution or payments? The quest for real-time payments," recognizes....
Major French retail chain Monoprix is making plans to start accepting bitcoin payments on its merchant website this year, according to the company's director of e-commerce, Patrick Oualid. Oualid made his comments in an interview published yesterday (8th April) on French news site JDN. When....
The ongoing bitcoin bull market has been nothing short of amazing. Retail interest during the last cycle brought the cryptocurrency only so far, and this cycle, retail plus institutions have pushed the price per coin to new heights. However, new data insights from OKEx partner analytics firm....
Ripple, an American FinTech firm, and FINCI, a Lithuanian FinTech firm, have partnered up to make retail remittances and B2B payments faster and more affordable. This is done through RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which uses XRP for cross-border payments that are crypto-enabled.....
Payments startup Pinn placed first in the retail category at Plug and Play demo day last week for a unique point-of-sale (POS) solution that enables bitcoin and fiat payments without the need for a smartphone or wallet. The accelerator featured a number of bitcoin and blockchain startups in its....
Venezuela may have the most crypto volume, but this country bests all of Latin America when it comes to retail crypto transactions. A recent study showed that Latin America represents 7% of the entire global cryptocurrency economy. Out of that segment, Mexico has captured almost 11% of all....
The Monetary Authority of Singapore will trial a retail central bank digital currency in various contexts at a fintech event, despite the electronic payment options already available. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has wrapped up the first stage of its Project Orchid examination of a....
Apple recently announced that it is going to extend its Apple Pay service to United Kingdom. Apple Pay is a mobile wallet and payment system launched late last year. In spite of the usual Apple's way of presenting things along with relevant technical components, enabling contactless and in app....
On-chain data shows the demand from retail investors for Bitcoin has slumped to 3-year lows, a sign that may be bearish for BTC. Bitcoin Retail Investor Transfer Volume Has Plummeted Recently As explained by CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju in a new post on X, retail investor demand has....
The retail CBDC will be developed in partnership with private entities, which “would be the digital equivalent of today’s notes and coins.” The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has ramped up efforts to research and develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for retail use under the....
London-based FinTech company SETL, Metro Bank, and global accounting firm Deloitte, have teamed up to develop a contactless card to enable faster transactions and settlement times for retail payments on the blockchain, in a recent announcement. In an initial test more than 100 people used the....
Daily crypto volume on payments giant PayPal have surged to record highs above $240 million. Global payments provider PayPal has doubled its previous crypto volume record, with $242 million worth of digital assets changing hands on the platform during Jan. 11.According to crypto market data....
There's a ton of retailers out there accepting bitcoin now. But if they all have one thing in common it's that customers paying with bitcoin are few and far between. Such is the case with British retail company Ink Factory, an online store that sells printer cartridges (and has accepted bitcoin....
On April 5, the Nasdaq-listed U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase, officially allowed Indian users to buy crypto tokens through UPI (Unified Payments Interface), a modern Indian payment infrastructure built by a coalition of retail banks. But after three days of launch, UPI rolled back its....
On April 6, one of the largest cryptocurrency payment platforms in the world, Bitpay, announced the Atlanta-based company has integrated bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network. According to the announcement on Wednesday, the youth-focused American retail clothing brand Pacific Sunwear....
As GME plummets and traditional financial media turns its attention elsewhere, where does the retail trading insurgency go from here?
Over the past years, the Dutch town of Arnhem consistently made headlines for its exceptional Bitcoin project: Arnhem Bitcoincity. Launched in 2014, the initiative started with 15 bars and restaurants accepting bitcoin and has since grown to include more than 100 brick-and-mortar bars,....