Legacy players in the $774 billion remittance payments market risk being relegated by digital challengers—unless they improve their solutions.

Payments Ecosystem: This year will reveal how providers must adapt to lasting pandemic-driven digitization across payments channels, ranging from in-store retail to B2B ecommerce.

With a $550M raise, the crypto as a service platform quadrupled its valuation to $8B as large companies increasingly seek out opportunities in digital currencies.

It’s already made crypto-payments-focused partnerships, and an exec said it’s looking at crypto. Or maybe it’s more about the metaverse.

DeFi industry must do more self-policing until regulation arrives: Theft from DeFi platforms increased 1,330% in 2021—and the SEC is looking at pseudonymity and opacity as major problems to solve.

Backed by several FDIC-insured incumbents, USDF has 1:1 redemption with US dollars and runs on a public blockchain. Security and transparency will make good selling points.

Chainalysis’ crypto crime report found that illicit transaction activity reached all-time high in value—but an all-time low as a share of all crypto activity.

Interest has revived on the business-customer side, supported by the rise of stablecoins and pressure to compete with bigger banks. Expanding to consumers could accelerate payments and deposits.

Nova Credit transfers immigrants’ credit histories into the US financial system so Amex can reach a hard-to-tap consumer segment.

Payments are set to break physical and digital borders in 2022. Innovations will make payments accessible across regions; super apps will address consumers’ financial needs all in one place; and lending will extend credit to once-inaccessible segments.

In this Meet the Analyst Webinar, Suzy Davidkhanian, eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence, revealed our new retail ecommerce sales estimates for 2022 and beyond

Fintechs can boost platform trading activity with tokenization: Republic raised $150M to add digital securities to its investing platform. These divide expensive assets into more liquid blockchain tokens.

Crypto exchange Bitpanda—which recently opened a B2B arm—raised $263M, as investors continue to target players that provide infrastructure to third parties.

On today's episode, we discuss what cryptocurrency is, why it's popular, what it's used for, and which coins will lead the charge and why. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer vice president of content and head of financial services Daniel Van Dyke and financial technology analyst at Insider Intelligence Victor Chatenay.

China eyes the ‘next stage of the internet’: The country hopes its two-pronged approach to early blockchain and 5G adoption will help establish itself as a global leader in the internet’s next generation.

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Blockchain is attracting enormous interest on the back of surging cryptocurrency valuations and increasingly high-profile payment integrations. But as a real payment currency, blockchain-based cryptocurrency still must overcome many hurdles before it can truly disrupt the space.