The central bank is expanding the role of its Retail Payments Manager to include digital currencies, stablecoins and distributed ledger technologies as part of a new hire.
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume is establishing a new outpost in China's capital city.
Regulators should offer a path for stablecoins to exist alongside current financial systems, writes a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.
A draft bill published Tuesday would regulate stablecoins under the Securities Act of 1933.
Under pressure from regulators, the Libra project may consider a fundamental change to the way its planned crypto payments system will operate.
Stablecoins pose a money laundering and terrorist financing risk to the world, the FATF said Friday.
A new report says bitcoin has failed as a means of payment or store of value, but stablecoins like Libra are a risk to financial stability.
Mitsubishi Research Institute and an Osaka-based railway company are issuing a local cryptocurrency for use in a popular tourist area in Japan.
Bermuda announced Wednesday it will accept payments in the USDC stablecoin "for taxes, fees and other government services."
Thirty blockchain companies and nonprofit organizations plan to fork the Facebook-led Libra cryptocurrency to build an open alternative.
A dollar-backed stablecoin with a twist: revenue-sharing with the institutions that use it.
Ethereum transaction fees are back on the rise and they're gaining parity with those of bitcoin. Here's why.
Germany's cabinet has passed a national strategy for exploring blockchain tech, while limiting the threat of stablecoins like Facebook's Libra.
U.S.-based financial giant Wells Fargo is developing a digital dollar that will run on the firm’s first blockchain platform.
Binance's dollar-backed stablecoin, BUSD, created in partnership with the Paxos Trust Company, will soon be available for trading.