Mastercard eyes more crypto expansion moves

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Largest Spanish Crypto Exchange, Bit2Me Launch Debit Card, with up to 9% Cash-back

Press Release: The Bit2Me Mastercard offers up to 9% cash-back to its customers, the highest currently available in the crypto market worldwide. Madrid, February 10, 2023 — Bit2Me, the first company recognized by the Bank of Spain as a virtual currency service provider, is the first cryptocurrency exchange in the world to offer up to…

Adoption grows as more than $7T settled with stablecoins in 2022

The ongoing bear market did little to curb the rising use of stablecoins. On the contrary, dollar-pegged coins like USDT and USDC saw a parabolic growth in market cap this year, becoming a defacto settlement currency of the crypto industry. Following the collapse of Terra and its algorithmic stablecoin UST, the two stablecoin giants took…

Top Israel bank to start offering crypto trading services

Top Israeli bank, Bank Leumi, is set to become the first bank in the country to enable crypto trading services through its digital platform, Pepper Invest. This is coming after the traditional banking institution entered into a partnership with blockchain firm Paxos.  Bank Leumi’s Pepper Invest crypto trading services According to a Reuters report, users…

FTX, Nexo to launch crypto debit cards

Debit cards are becoming increasingly popular among crypto users. Leading the pack, Coinbase and Crypto.com cards, among others, are already in the market. As announced today on, American crypto derivatives exchange FTX is next in line launching a Visa card to its customers. FTX users are now allowed to sign up for the card by…

Chamath Palihapitiya: Visa and MasterCard biggest business losers for 2022

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Bitcoin processes more dollar value than PayPal, could surpass Mastercard by 2026

Market intelligence platform Blockdata has suggested in a new report Bitcoin could outstrip credit card giant Mastercard in the number of dollar transactions value processed. Bitcoin processes more dollar value than PayPal Just recently, Bitcoin overtook the giant payment tech company, PayPal, in terms of value transfer. At the time of writing, the Bitcoin network…

Former Mastercard International President Baldomero Falcones Joins Card Division For Bit2Me

Bitcoin Press Release: Former President of Mastercard International, CEO of the construction company FCC, and director of operations at Santander Baldomero Falcones will now assist in growing the Bit2Me card division.  26th August 2021, Madrid —  Bit2Me continues to add talent to its project. Baldomero Falcones, a Spanish executive with a long and recognized track…