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Brazil's Nubank will acquire Spin Pay, a fintech company that supports retailers accepting payments through the country's Pix instant payment system. 

Rising institutional interest is pushing Citigroup to onboard BTC futures trading.

MobileCoin intends to use the funding to build a crypto chatbot service, merchant sales support, and a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar.

Venmo, the mobile payments app owned by PayPal, has announced that it is launching a new crypto cashback tool.

Circle, the firm behind the USDC stablecoin, wants to become a bank in a bid to rely less on third-party payment service providers.

Select restaurants of Quiznos will test accepting bitcoin in certain locations in Denver, Colorado beginning in mid-August.

Voyager intends to bolster its international expansion in addition to its business-to-business capabilities through acquiring Coinify.  

Earnings data from Visa indicates that this spring's peak in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies had an impact on the payments giant's cross-border transaction volume.

Comments from PayPal chief executive Dan Schulman during the payments firm's second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday indicate an accelerating focus on cryptocurrency tech.

The U.S. National Credit Union Administration's governing board approved Thursday a request for information (RFI) that seeks to learn more from the credit union industry about their views and positions on digital assets, with a significant focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square, said Thursday that the payments services business is working to create "an open developer platform" focused on bitcoin-tied financial services.

Previously, users were capped at $20,000 in crypto purchases a week.

On Sunday, a Mexican billionaire tweeted that his bank would start accepting bitcoin. On Monday, financial authorities seemed to push back.