Payments giant Mastercard has secured New York’s BitLicense, one of the toughest regulatory approvals, to advance its digital assets strategy and expand its stablecoin and tokenized deposits infrastructure. Related Reading: UK Targets HTX, Russia-Linked Crypto Firms Amid Crackdown On Sanction Evasion Mastercard Wins Major Regulatory Approval On Wednesday, Mastercard announced that its subsidiary Mastercard Transaction […]
Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC received a Virtual Currency License from the New York State Department of Financial Services on Wednesday, giving the global payments company formal standing to operate digital asset services in one of the most tightly regulated financial jurisdictions in the country. Mastercard Wins NYDFS Bitlicense, Opening New York Digital Asset Access […]
The payments giant, which processed nearly $11 trillion in volume last year, secured one of the US's most demanding state crypto licenses as it moves to settle transactions in digital assets.
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By the time that the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who will be punished for trying to regulate it. But the real winner of their feud may be the guy they're currently fighting over: a once-obscure New York state assemblyman, who they've Streisand-effected into becoming the poster child for AI safety regulation.
Ever since late 2025, Leading the Future, a super PAC funded by OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z executives, has spent millions against Alex Bores, who wrote one of the …
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Mastercard's regulatory approval in New York could accelerate the integration of digital currencies into mainstream financial systems, enhancing trust and innovation.
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Mastercard's stablecoin expansion could accelerate mainstream crypto adoption, intensifying competition with Visa and PayPal in digital payments.
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Mastercard has secured a coveted New York BitLicense for a U.S. subsidiary, clearing the way to expand stablecoin and tokenized deposit infrastructure inside one of the world’s toughest regulatory regimes. Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC, a subsidiary of Mastercard, has…
