The Big Picture

JUNE 10, 2025

But yeah, that was, that was an amazing time That then evolved into, hey, we’ve, we’ve got investors from Asia, from Europe, from South America, that are buying our ETFs listed on the New York Stock Exchange, because by the way, it’s a security. Some of that’s just driven by currency. The whole gamut.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Official media in July reported China Merchants Bank Chairman Miao Jianmin’s announcement of a strategic shift for his institution from “retail bank” to “value bank.” The institutional giant is accelerating its transformation into a new retail bank featuring efficient, data-driven interactions between its wholesale and retail operations.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

billion (about $464 million) IPO for discount grocery retailer Boxer. Notable transactions included a $284 million dual-currency commodity-murabaha and Shariah-compliant syndicated facility for DenizBank to finance and refinance general trade. Its huge portfolio of deals in Africa includes the $1.2

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Global Finance

MAY 2, 2025

Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value over time; they are typically pegged 1:1 to the value of traditional currencies like the US dollar or the euro.) Institutional buyers are less likely to sell on bad days than are leveraged retail buyers, he says.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By providing immediate cash flow, SCF helps suppliers avoid the pitfalls of traditional loans that can be challenging to secure during economic downturns. This offering enables secure funding against purchase orders from buyers and streamlines cash flows.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 18, 2025

The second is bitcoin , which can be viewed as either a currency or a collectible, and in a series of posts, I argued that bitcoin can only be priced, not valued, making debates about whether to buy or not to buy entirely a function of perception. Leading into July 2025, for instance, global non-financial-service firms held almost $11.4

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Global Finance

JULY 8, 2025

To find out how companies are coping with rising trade tensions and currency volatility, we asked our writers across key regions—Southeast Asia, Japan, India, and the United States—to speak with manufacturers and exporters on the ground. That would cost us much more in terms of cost, time, and effort.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 27, 2025

They’d suggested we were shoplifting, we weren’t, but it was just a heavy security presence. I love retail. The currencies of fast food were a lot of food for not a lot of money. The currencies of fast casualties, let’s do something better for a bit more money. Or 00:46:09 [Speaker Changed] Retailers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

The tipping point might be nigh for digital dollars and other central bank-issued currencies done through bits and bytes. Patent and Trademark Office that would create a digital currency underpinned by blockchain technology. A central entity may implement a monetary policy and issue currency.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A major German digital security firm that is a significant player in the electronic payments sector on Tuesday (Sept. 15) has backed a call by the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) for quick exploration into creating an official European Union digital currency. In the digital world, speed is the most important factor.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

A European Central Bank ( ECB ) official is throwing his support towards wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). While a retail CBDC would be available for the general public, wholesale would serve a limited circle, primarily banks. Vasiliauskas is contemplating both sides.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In terms of collaboration, as noted in this space, the Federal Reserve is working in collaboration with seven other central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to bring together a framework that would smooth the path to digital currency issuance. The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring a digital currency.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Christine Lagarde , European Central Bank (ECB) president, said the ECB could make its own digital currency within a few years, which could change up the eurozone financial sector drastically, Bloomberg reported. If it’s cheaper, faster, more secure for the users, then we should explore it.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Coverage includes the launch of Wirecard and Ctrip ’s multi-currency Visa cards for customers in China. fashion retailer Missguided is offering a pay later option through Klarna , and Nordic payments company Nets A/S and merchant payment service provider Concardis Payment Group said they have completed their merger. In addition, U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against digital payments firm Ripple is heading to virtual court on Feb. 29) that the SEC's lawsuit has already harmed "countless innocent XRP retail holders with no connection to Ripple" and have “needlessly muddied the waters” for the industry. crypto industry.".

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Budget speech that the introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) will give a big boost to the digital economy. Digital currency will also lead to a more efficient and cheaper currency management system.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

at online trading platform eToro , said in the report there are "storm clouds" on the horizon for the form of currency. Warnings of money-printing by global central banks, some of which began to show their own interest in digital currency, gave way to fears of inflation. billion unregistered securities offering.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Weeks before cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy , dozens of young Nigerians in skintight dresses and brightly colored suits shimmied under limbo bars, posed for photos in front of the company’s logo and sipped expensive liquor at a swanky beachfront venue.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

News came this week that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against Ripple over its XRP cryptocurrency. billion unregistered securities offering, and named CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Co-Founder Chris Larsen in the suit. XRP is a currency, as the DOJ and FinCEN determined in 2015.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Morgan forecasting that the currency could reach $146,000 in the long run. The parabolic move in bitcoin in such a short time period, I would say for any security, is highly abnormal,” Rosenberg told CNBC. Some bitcoin bulls have called bitcoin “digital gold,” CNBC said, with J.P. 6) and trading above $1,200, CoinDesk reported. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

To that end, Bloomberg reported at least some financial regulators from the European Union say there need to be strict controls governing central bank digital currencies in place — and Libra (among other private efforts) may present a threat to financial stability.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

And Japan’s Financial Service Agency (FSA) has said that Rakuten’s new digital currency exchange, Rakuten Wallet, is now registered as a virtual currency exchange provider with Kanto Local Financial Bureau under the Payment Service Act, CoinDesk reported. The group reportedly had revenues of $53 billion last year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Crypto boosters have spent the better part of the past decade promoting the idea that great fiat-currency disruptions are coming care of blockchain and literally hundreds of thousands of variations of cryptocurrency circulating in the world today. Even bitcoin is accepted by only a relative handful of digital retailers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

When PayPal announced recently that its 350 million users can deposit bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in their accounts and spend it at 26 million merchants next year, it was characterized as the inevitable advance of digital currency. Privacy And Security.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2017

Security in the digital age is a goal for most retailers and consumers — and nearly everyone else in the business world. When it comes to personal information, especially data linked to payment accounts, the level of privacy and accuracy of security are key in keeping the retail world spinning. Although most U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Earlier this month, as PYMNTS noted , the Federal Reserve said its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency. Central bank digital currencies (or CBDCs) have been gathering steam, at least as a concept.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Lim Soon Chong , Group Head of Global Transaction Services, DBS As financial institutions seek to expand their cross-border payment capabilities, the challenge lies not only in scaling to new corridors but also in managing the complexity of currency volatility and compliance. Real-world applications of this approach are already in motion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane advocated for the potential benefits digital currencies can offer in a recent speech given at TheCityUK 10th Anniversary Conference on Wednesday (Nov. The future of digital currencies, Haldane said, is uncertain and most likely varied. So far, that has not been the case.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

The currency decline continues: The Swedish krona fell Wednesday (Aug. The decline comes amid political uncertainty in that Nordic country, the prospect of a widening trade war that could hurt it and increasing attention to the benefits of currency hedging among commerce and payments businesses. Such lows were last seen in 2009.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

The last several weeks have certainly made for unexpected and unprecedented times for consumers and all players in the retail ecosystem and left a lot of businesses standing at a crossroads as they face the back half of 2020 and questions about what to do next. In other words, trust has become a primarily valuable currency of late.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. Yao was the head of China’s central bank digital currency initiative. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Dallas-based busing line Greyhound is all too familiar with such problems, prompting it to implement advanced learning technologies to secure ticketing. Our number one goal was making sure that process was as frictionless as possible while making sure that we [offered] a fully secure process.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In today’s top payments news, Stripe and Lightspeed team up to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants, the Federal Reserve weighs the costs and benefits of a digital currency and the Reserve Bank of Australia considers stopping banks from automatically routing “tap and go” payments through Visa and Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Will Byrne, CEO of Worldnet Payments , the kiosks and smart shelves that are gaining traction across any number of commerce and retail settings may even shift the employment picture a bit. The Changing Retail Footprint. As unattended retail notches an increasing footprint, said Byrne, other use cases will also emerge.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

EMTECH is rolling out its new Modern Central Bank Sandbox, which will help to streamline regulatory reviews and test central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), a press release says. For example, EMTECH is currently working with the Central Bank of the Bahamas on its Digital Sand Dollar Currency.

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