Queens-based Quontic Bank has become the first FDIC-insured financial institution to launch a bitcoin rewards checking program.
Banca Generali, a subsidiary of Italy’s largest insurer, will also help its customers hold bitcoin following the $14 million Series B.
Banks are moving into crypto and crypto companies are trying to become banks, so how does it all play out?
The guidance is apt to chafe privacy advocates, inside and outside the crypto space, who are already uneasy about the honeypot that FinCEN’s suspicious activity report database has become.
The crypto corridor connecting Switzerland and Singapore is firming up, involving many of the usual suspects in banking, custody and trading.
The live repo trade used a blockchain application built in-house, as well as the bank's jpm coin.
Former Quontic Bank executive Patrick Sells will be responsible for developing NYDIG’s white-labeled crypto services for banks.
A Bank of America report on a possible mass-adopted digital euro noted that such movement could spell difficulty for commercial banks that could see some of their deposits migrate to the European Central Bank.
Crypto payments firm BitPay has filed to become a national bank in the U.S., according to a Dec. 8 legal notice.
Standard Chartered has gathered a group of crypto exchanges for a new digital asset trading platform tailored to the institutional market, according to sources.
BBVA is poised to enter the cryptocurrency trading and custody space, according to two people familiar with the plans.
Russian banks fear being left out of the central bank's proposed digital currency system, according to a report.
Call it the CPR for Operation Choke Point.
Gemini announced it was expanding into the United Kingdom in late September.
If its application is approved, Anchorage would be the first crypto company to get a national bank charter.