28 | Latest Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin & Crypto Updates 2025

Anxious S Korean Crypto Exchanges Prepare for Crunch Talks with Banks

Nervous South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges are preparing to renew their banking deals with domestic banks – with media reports claiming exchanges are feeling “pessimistic.”Per Newsway, the country’s “big four” exchanges, the market-leading Bithumb, Upbit,...

, by Tim Alper

MUFG Bank Issues First Blockchain-powered Letter of Credit + More News

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Blockchain newsJapanese financial behemoth Mitsubishi UFG (MUFG)’s banking arm has announced that it has issued...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto Brokerage Bitcoin Suisse Hopes Banking License Will Boost its IPO Bid

Swiss crypto financial services provider Bitcoin Suisse is planning to acquire a banking license in 2020 as part of its plans to build momentum for an initial public offering (IPO).The Zug-based company put in its license application in July last year, and is hoping to be given the regulatory green...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

‘Bitcoin Fixes This’: Société Générale Closes Accounts of Its Critic

In yet another example of perils that can await customers of traditional banks, and an argument in favor of decentralized cryptocurrencies, French banking giant Société Générale has reportedly decided to close the accounts of Julie Goislard, the owner of a library in Clichy-la-Garenne, in northern...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Santander & Other Spanish Banks Test Blockchain Payments + More News

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Adoption newsA number of major Spanish banks including Santander and BBVA are testing blockchain-powered payment...

, by Tim Alper

Ping An Subsidiary & Ripple Friendly SBI to Bring Blockchain to Banks

Japanese financial giant and long-time Ripple partner SBI has struck a deal with OneConnect, part of the Chinese insurance giant Ping An Group. The companies have agreed to launch a recently formed company in Japan, with the aim of revitalizing smaller, regional Japanese banks using blockchain...

, by Tim Alper

80 Japanese Banks Eye JPMorgan’s Blockchain

More than 80 Japanese banks have declared interest in joining JPMorgan Chase’s blockchain-based payment information network, the Interbank Information Network (IIN), making the country’s banking sector possibly the largest national player in the system powered by Quorum, a permissioned...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Asian Tech Giants’ New Blockchain Drive Involves Traditional Finance

Two of South Korea’s biggest internet tech companies are strengthening their ties with the traditional financial sector to prepare the ground for a fresh fintech, blockchain and token-powered business drive.Per Fn News, search engine Naver and its Line chat app affiliate and rival chat app...

, by Tim Alper

Cryptoworld Votes BTC after Bank of America Axes Ex PayPal CFO Account

Always hungry for more proofs that Bitcoin (BTC) is better than traditional, centralized banking, the Cryptoverse just found more examples in the U.S. and Lebanon. First, the U.S.-headquartered banking giant Bank of America (BoA) froze the accounts of ex PayPal Chief Financial Officer (CFO),...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Banking Giant With 16 Million Clients, RBC, Goes Crypto – Report

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), the Canada-headquartered major global bank, is set to open a cryptocurrency exchange, according to a report from The Logic.The media outlet claims it has learned that the RBC wants to allow customers to trade in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum for...

, by Tim Alper

Blockchain Banking March Continues Despite S Korea Digital Fiat No-go

Many believe that China’s digital fiat will arrive soon, but South Korea, one of the Middle Kingdom’s closest neighbors, has all but ruled out issuing its own digital token – and states that digital fiats are still a way off. In the private sector, though, the pace of banking...

, by Tim Alper

Russia’s Sberbank Takes on Crypto with Cross-border Money Transfer App

Russian major bank Sberbank has introduced a new low-cost, cross-border remittance solution that it believes will be able to compete with cryptocurrency for cross-border transactions.The bank, once the Russian financial sector’s fiercest advocate of cryptocurrencies, announced earlier this...

, by Tim Alper

The Next Level of Crypto Adoption: Bank Teaches Clients About Bitcoin

One German bank has an original way to teach its clients about the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC). It needs only two old-school things to accomplish this: a pen and a paper.Recently, Cryptonews.com wrote about the Bitcoin-bullish report published by German bank Bayern LB....

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Five Hurdles Blockchain Faces to Revolutionise Banking

Blockchain is touted as the next step in the digital revolution, a technology that will change every industry from music to waste. When it comes to money, it goes well beyond bitcoin. Academics have claimed it will “do to the financial system what the internet did to media”.There are...

, by Markos Zachariadis

Bitcoin Support on Opera Leaves Beta Testing + 7 More Crypto News

Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world.Adoption newsThe Opera web browser released a new version for Android, which, in addition to already existing support for...

, by Tim Alper

800+ South Korean Companies Dealing in Crypto Despite ‘Dead’ Market

Over 800 South Korean companies are doing business in cryptocurrencies, per figures compiled by the regulatory Financial Supervisory Service (FSS).Aju News reports that a parliamentary committee asked the FSS to reveal how many companies in the country had corporate cryptocurrency exchange-linked...

, by Tim Alper

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