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Visa And Mesh Want Crypto Wallet Balances To Work At 175 Million Merchants
Visa and Mesh have announced a partnership allowing consumers to spend cryptocurrency and stablecoins directly from participating wallets at over 175 million merchants accepting...
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France to impose 31% capital gains tax on stablecoin trades from 2027
France's parliament has approved a 31.4% capital gains tax on cryptocurrency-to-stablecoin trades. This measure, aligned with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, will...
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Mastercard Introduces Fraud Screening Before Stablecoin Payments Go On-Chain
Mastercard has launched Stablecoin Security, a risk-scoring tool designed to help financial institutions examine stablecoin payments before and during their movement across blockchains. The...
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Tether Iran Dispute: Ardoino Pushes Back Against Senate
Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, stated that the company froze Iran-linked crypto addresses on average four weeks before official designations by OFAC and Israel's...
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Crypto taxation: no vote today as examination of the first part of the 2027 PLF is not finished
The vote on the revenue section of the 2027 budget, initially scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed as more than 2,600 amendments still needed...
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Stablecoins: Mastercard Bets on Security to Support Banks
Mastercard unveiled Stablecoin Security on October 19 at the Money20/20 USA conference in Las Vegas, a service designed to help financial institutions assess risks...
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USDT and Sanctions Against Iran: Tether Responds to US Senate Accusations
Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, responded on October 19 to accusations from US senators regarding failures to comply with sanctions against Iran....
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Kevin O’Leary Names Safest Crypto Asset
Canadian billionaire and Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary has named stablecoins as the safest crypto asset. He explained that stablecoins are less risky than...