Western Union joins stablecoin race, eyes crypto partnerships — CEO

Western Union is exploring stablecoin integration for cross-border transfers, conversions and digital wallets, positioning it as an innovation opportunity.

Western Union is exploring stablecoin integration for cross-border transfers, conversions and digital wallets, positioning it as an innovation opportunity.
Grass-roots Bitcoin meetups have always been an engine of adoption. They turn abstract ideas into practical skills: someone installs a wallet, learns what a seed phrase is, sends and receives their first sats, and walks away with a clearer picture of how Bitcoin works from the ground up. Over the past year organisers in Northwest…
Jane Street, one of many world’s largest market-making corporations, has come below rising scrutiny as a sequence of allegations have surfaced linking the corporate to main disruptions within the crypto market. The agency is already dealing with a federal lawsuit tied to the collapse of Terraform Labs, and now new claims circulating on social media…
The Ethereum Foundation announced that the Holešky testnet is getting into its last section, and the community is scheduled to shut down two weeks after the Fusaka upgrade concludes. According to the Foundation, the community assist from shopper builders, testing teams, and infrastructure suppliers will formally finish as soon as the anticipated improve course of…
Solana spot ETF approvals might come as quickly as next week, with a timeline of Oct. 6-10 representing a practical expectation for the SEC’s approval. As Blockworks reported on Sept. 30, sources at three separate issuers stated that the optimism follows the SEC’s adoption of generic listing standards for crypto exchange-traded merchandise, which eradicated the…
State Street launched its first digital debt securities using JPMorgan’s Digital Debt Service, executing a $100 million commercial paper transaction. According to an Aug. 21 statement, State Street Investment Management purchased the commercial paper for its Short Term Investment Fund. The debt securities are issued, settled, and serviced using blockchain technology, delivering streamlined institutional market…
France signaled it might problem the precise of some crypto firms licensed in different European Union nations to function domestically, escalating stress for centralized oversight of the bloc’s digital asset trade, Reuters reported on Sept. 15. Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, president of France’s monetary regulator AMF, stated the company is more and more involved that beneath the…