Tagged: wallets

November 16, 2025 @ 4:44 pm By Michael Wong  |  

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has rolled out a new suite of fintech infrastructure services for licensed e-wallet providers and digital businesses, seeking to embed itself more deeply in Kuwait’s fast-evolving digital payments market, according to an announcement. The “FinTech Services” package includes virtual IBANs… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 12:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

More than half of UK adults now use mobile wallets, according to a report from UK Finance. Recent figures from the Fintech and financial services industry trade body reveal how consumer behavior and payment habits in the UK continue to evolve and how they are… Read More

August 21, 2025 @ 4:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin, once a somewhat niche digital asset, has seemingly cemented its place as a key part of modern finance, with Wall Street leading the charge in its institutional embrace. According to Nexo’s latest update, the appetite for Bitcoin among major financial players is not only… Read More

November 4, 2024 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

THORChain via SwapKit is now available in the swap section of Ledger Live Desktop. THORChain is a cross-chain decentralized exchange, enabling Ledger Live Desktop users to swap digital assets across different DLT / blockchain networks “without needing a centralized exchange.” This integration allows for a… Read More

September 25, 2024 @ 7:44 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Viva.com, a European payments Fintech, has expanded its strategic partnership with Alipay+, a suite of cross-border mobile payments and digitalization technology solutions, to enable European merchants to accept direct payments from 15 e-wallets. Alipay+ and Viva.com partnership allows global tourists, mostly from Asia, to pay in… Read More

September 9, 2024 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The payment landscape has evolved at an exponential rate over the past decade, with many payment methods rising to become some of the most used solutions across retail, eCommerce, B2B (Business-to-Business), and P2P (Peer-to-Peer) scenarios. This, according to an update from Juniper Research. Juniper Research… Read More

August 21, 2024 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TerraPay, a global money movement company, announced a collaboration with 5 of the leading wallet operators to establish the “Wallet Interoperability Council”, aiming to leverage TerraPay’s technology to facilitate interconnection and interoperability in cross-border transactions. Together, these operators serve millions of wallet users, “spanning regions… Read More

August 9, 2024 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, a global money movement innovator, has now enabled hundreds of merchants in Paris to accept cross-border payments from 15 international e-wallets and mobile partners via Alipay+. This collaboration leverages the Thunes Global Network, “enhancing convenience for Asian tourists in France, as they enjoy a… Read More

July 6, 2024 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tangem AG, the global provider of secure hardware wallet solutions, is pleased to announce a partnership with Visa (NYSE: V), a global enabler of digital payments, to support an innovative self-custodial payment solution for hardware wallets. This development introduces a Visa payment card “that is… Read More

November 28, 2023 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockdaemon Institutional Wallet is now supported with cold storage, tokenization features as well as Azure support. Blockdaemon says it is unveiling three major enhancements to the Blockdaemon Institutional Wallet, which include: Cold Storage, Tokenization and Azure Cloud support. These features collectively aim to “enhance the… Read More

October 15, 2023 @ 6:55 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore-based Web3 wallet solution provider Account Labs has announced plans to launch a new wallet that will allow users to access using just a Google account following a successful fundraising of $7.7 million. Account Labs announced that funding round was backed by a number investors… Read More

April 11, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pine Street Labs says they are focused on making blockchains usable for all users. As noted in a blog post, each new blockchain “introduces unique transaction lifecycles, encoding schemes, consensus engines, architectures, and more.” As explained in an update from Pine Street Labs, the technical… Read More

September 30, 2021 @ 3:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Elliptic, a provider of blockchain analytics and crypto compliance solutions, today announced an agreement with US-based financial infrastructure provider Prime Trust, which aims to help fintech innovators launch quickly and scale securely in today’s digital economy. Prime Trust, which recently announced the close of a… Read More

February 26, 2020 @ 2:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise-grade public distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based platform, announced on Wednesday an integration with the Nano S and Nano X wallets from Ledger. Hedera reported that its Ledger Nano S and Nano X wallet implementations will allow users to view and validate public keys… Read More

April 7, 2019 @ 6:23 pm By Yoav Dror  |  

We need to get with the times. Your good old leather wallet now comes in a non-physical, electronic alternative. We need to brace ourselves for the use of digital wallets and the mass benefits they have to offer the world of finance. Digital wallets may… Read More

March 28, 2019 @ 4:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In mid-March, Taiwan-based blockchain security company CoolBitX, creator of CoolWallet S, a Bluetooth mobile hardware wallet for digital assets, has created a tech partnership with the Asia Blockchain and Crypto Association (ABACA), the appointed Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) of the Philippine government agency Cagayan Economic Zone Authority… Read More

January 21, 2019 @ 9:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tandem, a Switzerland-based startup for smartcard-based NFC wallets for cryptocurrencies and blockchain assets, announced on Monday it received a $15 million investment from Japan’s SBI. According to Tandem, the investment will be used to accelerate the deployment of its cryptocurrency/stable coins, as well as other technologies,… Read More

December 27, 2018 @ 5:02 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The importance of storing one’s cryptocurrency safely was highlighted in South Korea this week when a court there decided that Korean crypto exchange Bithumb is not liable for customer funds hacked from an account there, Han Kyung reports. According to the outlet, an investor with… Read More

November 19, 2018 @ 5:33 pm By Cali Haan  |  

After holding a series of 18 meetings to review Canada’s Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA), the House Finance Committee has recommended that the Government of Canada regulate cryptocurrency businesses to prevent criminal use, iPolitics reports. The committee has been conducting meetings to… Read More

November 15, 2018 @ 2:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Lukas Stefanko, a Malware researcher and blogger, recently identified four crypto-stealing wallet apps being hosted at the Google Play Store: “These threats imitate legitimate services for NEO, Tether and MetaMask. I reported these apps to the Google security team and they were promptly removed.” Stefanko divided the fraudulent… Read More