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Payments company Visa built a partnership with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX to offer debit cards in 40 countries. The cards will allow holders to spend their crypto funds from FTX accounts. So, users won't need to withdraw their cryptocurrencies from the exchange to spend them. The cards make it...

Payments giant Visa has launched an NFT business development education program. The initiative is designed for a year and is aimed at artists, musicians, fashion designers, and filmmakers. Visa's head of crypto, Cu Sheffield, said the company hopes to understand the prospects and challenges...

Payment giant Visa has announced the creation of a new advisory division to assist clients to navigate cryptocurrencies. The structure, which will become part of the consulting and analytics department, will give advice to financial institutions, retailers, and other firms on everything from the...

The Litecoin Foundation unveiled the Visa debit card, after which network activity peaked starting from mid-September. The average daily number of transactions on the Litecoin blockchain is approaching 150,000. Note that at the beginning of this month, LTC addresses made about 100,000 transactions...

Visa has shown an increased interest in the blockchain industry over the past few years. In winter, it became known about the plans of the payment system to launch support for digital currencies. As RBC clarifies, now the company wants to develop a network based on Ethereum for converting tokens,...

Leading financial services company Visa revealed buying CryptoPunk #7610 paying around $150.000 in Ether. Along with the announcement, Visa released a blog post. Through the post, the head of Crypto at Visa, Cuy Sheffield, explained what NFTs are and why the company chose to buy one. Over the last...

In the spring of 2021, transactions with Visa crypto cards accounted for a significant part of the transaction volume of the payment system, but the excitement around digital assets is starting to weaken. The CFO of the company Vasant Prabhu spoke about this. According to the report for the III...

Major payment companies Visa and Mastercard told Financial Times that clients will be able to access operations with Binance in spite of the current regulatory issues that the company faces. After various countries targeted Binance, some banks and payments firms have stopped working with the...

Crypto financial operations enterprise BlockFi issued its BTC returns credit card. The initiative of the card was first mentioned at the end of 2020. At that time, the waiting list was opened. Currently, the process of approving customers from the list has begun. BlockFi's card offers users to...

Venture Capital firm focused on crypto and DLT, Blockchain Capital allocated $300 M in funding for its Fund V. Giant finance firms PayPal and Visa contributed the round. BC was established in 2013. It has financially backed over 110 firms. The number includes crypto platforms Coinbase, Kraken,...

International payments technology company Visa said on March 29 it will unlock the option of using USD Coin (USDC) to settle transactions on the platform. Visa teamed up with cryptocurrency and payment operations provider Crypto.com to launch the pilot project. The company aims to offer more firms...

Major financial services company Visa continues to be interested in the crypto industry. Recently, in a podcast with Fortune's Leadership Next the CEO of the firm Al Kelly talked about Visa's plans concerning digital assets. During the discussion, Kelly said that the team intends to bring out two...

Financial services corporation Visa found out via survey that 25% of credit card holders in Latin America are willing to use cryptocurrencies during payment activities. Visa announced the third Visa COVID-19 Consumer Sentiment research results. The study aimed to discover customer trends at the...

Visa has been interested in the cryptocurrency industry for the past few years. This payment operator even became a member of the Facebook crypto project (Libra). At the end of last week, Visa CEO Alfred Kelly said that in the future, the company's payment network could integrate digital...

Major multinational financial services organization Visa has been in partnership with the crypto industry for a long time. Digital asset firms BlockFi, Fold, and Crypto.com already implement Visa-branded products. However, there is a possibility that Visa will enable crypto payments directly on its...

California-based financial entity Visa will bring out a new credit card that will provide BTC rewards to holders at the beginning of 2021. This became possible due to cooperation with lending protocol BlockFi for "Bitcoin Rewards Visa Credit Card," which yearly fee is $200. Shoppers will...

Jack Mallers, a developer of the popular Lightning wallet Zap Wallet, proclaimed the start of Strike's open beta. With it, users will be able to make payments in bitcoin through direct bank transfers. “We have entered the Visa Fintech Fast Track program. It means accelerating integration with...

Visa payment company filed a patent application for "digital fiat currency." On Thursday, May 14, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the Visa patent application, which was incipiently filed in November 2019. The application describes a system for combining the advantages of...