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Americans are struggling to keep up with day-to-day expenses and increasingly relying on credit cards just as APRs head to a record high.

If you’re still waiting on a tax refund, you may be earning interest on your unpaid balance, and the rate jumps to 6% on Oct. 1, according to the IRS.

PYMNTS | Aug 2, 2022 A central bank digital currency (CBDC) could be the “holy grail” for cross-border payments, offering a solution that is “immediate, cheap, universal in terms of reach, and settled in a secure settlement medium,” the European Central Bank (ECB) said in a recent report on identifying the ultimate cross-border payment medium. “... the

NCFA Canada | Mahi Sall | Aug 16, 2022 Thought Leadership Series of Expert interviews and insights related to a made-in-Canada open banking regime The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada (NCFA), true to its mission of providing education, industry stewardship, networking, growth, and funding opportunities for innovative financial technologies and related sectors, is

ByteByteGo | Alex Wu | Jul 16, 2022 What happens when you swipe your credit card at a merchant's shop VISA, Mastercard, and American Express act as card networks for clearing and settling funds. The card acquiring bank and the card issuing bank can be – and often are – different. If banks were to

ETF Strategy | James Lord | Aug 12, 2022 Online personal finance and investment company SoFi Technologies has launched a thematic equity ETF targeting companies powering ‘Web 3’, a future iteration of the internet characterized by blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse.  The SoFi Web 3 ETF (TWEB US) has been listed on Nasdaq

Cointelegraph | Arijit Sarkar | Aug 15, 2022 BNB Chain’s Red Alert system flags projects based on obvious features that have been historically used in scams, rug pulls and phishing. BNB Chain, a blockchain network created by crypto exchange Binance, has identified over 50 on-chain projects that pose a significant risk to users. A mix of

The U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it would cancel the student loans for 208,000 borrowers who attended ITT Technical Institute.

With interest rates rising and the average transaction price on a new car just below $46,000, consumers may want to explore ways to keep costs down.

There's been a surge of interest in green energy funds as Congress allocates $369 billion for climate change funding. Here's what investors need to know.

Democrats are seeking to bring a bill to enhance Social Security benefits up for a vote on the House floor this fall. Here's what it includes.

Cointelegraph | Brayden Lindrea  | Aug 14, 2022 Mr. Wonderful thinks that crypto needs more regulation and less “crypto cowboys” like Tornado Cash creator Alexey Pertsev, who he suggested was a necessary sacrifice to create stability for institutional inflows. Kevin O’Leary, Shark Tank host and venture capitalist: Ethereum-based crypto mixer Tornado Cash are a part

CSA | Release | Aug 15, 2022 TORONTO – The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is providing an important update to crypto trading platforms that continue to operate in Canada while they take steps to comply with applicable securities legislation. CSA members now expect such platforms to provide a pre-registration undertaking to their principal regulator to

IEEE Spectrum | Matthew S. Smith | Aug 10, 2022 The rise and fall of CryptoKitties CryptoKitties was among the first projects to harness smart contracts by attaching code to data constructs called tokens, on the Ethereum blockchain. Each chunk of the game’s code (which it refers to as a “gene”) describes the attributes of

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