AML-Compliant Bitcoin Payments Coming to 56,000+ Merchants Globally

In a bid to become compliant in jurisdictions around the world, Bitstamp has partnered with Vogogo to expand into the US and Canadian markets. The UK-based exchange which handles almost all the Bitcoin trades globally will benefit from this partnership because Vogogo already operates in the US and Canadian markets. Vogogo will be facilitating the movement of fiat currencies into the exchange in jurisdictions where Bitstamp is presently unable to operate. Geoff Gordon, CEO of Vogogo, said: Bitstamp is a world renowned crypto exchange and an industry leader. We are honoured to be working....

Running a bitcoin payment gateway is nothing short of big business. Thousands of merchants around the world rely on these services to allow for the acceptance of bitcoin with limited risk - allowing them to instantly exchange the digital currency for local fiat and avoiding potentially costly fluctuations in price. Take BitPay, for example. The company has grown exponentially in the past couple of years, going from 1,000 merchants signed up in September 2012, to 10,000 merchants a year later in September 2013. They've since accumulated about 30,000 merchants globally, making them an....

Snapcard, is a Bitcoin wallet and one of the world's leading Bitcoin payment processors. This Monday, the company announced it has signed a partnership with Alpha Payments Cloud enabling AlphaHub users to accept Bitcoin payments globally. Snapcard is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2013, Snapcard's Merchant API is an easy to integrate, enterprise-level solution that allows merchants to accept Bitcoin payments anywhere in the world without taking on any currency volatility risk. Snapcard offers a suite of products and services designed facilitate the use of digital....

Payza, is one of the leading online payment processors. Today, Payza announced that merchants using Payza to process payments can now accept Bitcoin payments. Payza started offering Bitcoin services in August 2014 when they introduced an option for Payza members to buy Bitcoin directly within their accounts; later that year, in October, the company released a new Bitcoin deposits option, which allowed members to sell Bitcoin to Payza. Now the company extended the Bitcoin option to Merchants. Payza informed that the new feature has been automatically enabled on all existing Payza Payment....

Bitnet, a bitcoin payments processor from the developers of the largest payment gateway (CyberSource, acquired by VISA) has entered into a strategic partnership with Computop, a leading payment service provider, to allow global merchants to accept bitcoin on Computop Paygate. Since its launch, Bitnet has focused its services to provide an enterprise-grade digital commerce platform with security, reliability and scalability standards demanded by global businesses. Through the Computop and Bitnet partnership, however, the multi-national bitcoin merchant processor is attempting to implement....