The Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprisingly positive-sounding statement about crypto – claiming that it has a “right to exist” – and added that it could one day find a niche…

Cryptocurrency payments represent one out of four important emerging payment methods, and 45% of surveyed customers plan to use it when making non-cash transactions within the next 2 years, a…

The FSB is looking to fix the “challenges that cross-border payments” experience by “examining” the use of “global stablecoin arrangements” and CBDCs.

Another major power has claimed it will not follow Beijing in a nationwide crypto crackdown – with Moscow the latest to distance itself from such a move, days after the United States…

South Korea’s crypto industry is braced for another round of potentially restrictive regulations – with a financial regulatory chief hinting that, fresh from subjecting crypto exchanges to…

After the bluster, the real Chinese crypto crackdown is set to begin – with regulators, courts and law enforcement agencies now looking at how to implement the terms of last month’s tumultuous…

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Source: screenshot, Instagram/the_imf Inflation currently seen in major developed economies is “transitory” and is expected to fall to…

South Korean MPs have spoken yet again about the need to tax the non-fungible token (NFT) sector, while the government is being best on all sides by challenges from MPs opposed to its…