A cartoon image of US President-elect Donald Trump with cryptocurrency tokens, depicted in front of the White House to mark his inauguration, displayed at a Coinhero store in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. Paul Yeung | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies sank on Tuesday, as bullish investor sentiment surrounding … Read more
Snoop Dogg was the lead act at the first-ever Crypto Inaugural Ball held in Washington on Friday evening. MacKenzie Sigalos As the crypto industry celebrates the arrival of a new administration in Washington, D.C., nobody is taking quicker advantage of the coming changes than the person leading the charge: President Donald J. Trump. On Friday … Read more
Alipay, China’s leading mobile payments platform, will bear the expense from unexpected losses that it incurred on Thursday, when a system error gave a 20 per cent discount to an undisclosed number of user transactions. The error, which was caused by a back-end misconfiguration in the app’s promotional campaign, applied an “immediate deduction” to the … Read more
Barry Silbert, founder and chief executive officer of Digital Currency Group Inc., speaks during the Skybridge Alternatives (SALT) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Thursday, May 9, 2019. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Digital Currency Group, the crypto firm founded by Barry Silbert, and the former executive of a defunct unit are paying … Read more
“Buy-now, pay-later” firm Klarna aims to return to profit by summer 2023. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Klarna has agreed a major new distribution partnership with fellow fintech unicorn Stripe, in a bid to expand reach and add more merchants in the lead-up to its upcoming listing in the U.S. Klarna’s buy now, … Read more
Swedish fintech company Klarna has announced plans to introduce randomised drug testing for its employees as part of a wider effort to bolster workplace security. The move comes as the company prepares for its initial public offering (IPO) in the United States. According to Business Insider, Klarna informed employees of the new policy via an … Read more
Representations of cryptocurrency Bitcoin are seen in this illustration taken Nov. 25, 2024. Dado Ruvic | Reuters After a blistering rally in bitcoin this year, crypto investors and industry executives told CNBC they’re expecting the flagship cryptocurrency to hit new all-time highs in 2025. In December, the world’s largest cryptocurrency broke the highly-anticipated $100,000, setting … Read more
Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, said it had no immediate plans to revive its initial public offering (IPO), dispelling market speculation it would soon go public. The Chinese company shocked investors in November 2020 by cancelling its US$39.7 billion IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai less than 48 hours before market … Read more
Ant Group, the fintech giant affiliated with Alibaba Group Holding, is splitting the business group of its mobile payment platform Alipay into two units, in its latest corporate restructuring move to drive new growth. The company will establish the Digital Payment Business Group and Alipay Business Group, and adopt a “rotating presidential system” for the … Read more
Michael Saylor, chairman and chief executive officer at MicroStrategy, during an interview at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida, US, on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images On the eve of MicroStrategy‘s stock market debut in June 1998, founder Michael Saylor stayed in a penthouse suite at … Read more
