Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Enterprise payments platform SwiftPay has highlighted growing operational inefficiencies and manual reconciliation challenges faced by Philippine enterprises despite the rapid rise of consumer digital transactions. According to data cited by the company from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP_ 2024 status report, digital payments now account for 57.4% of monthly retail transaction volume and 59% of value in the country. However, the platform noted that back-office infrastructure has not kept pace with front-end transaction growth, leaving finance teams to manually …
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PI’s highly volatile rollercoaster ride continues, this time in the opposite direction. Bitcoin’s price was positively impacted by the lower-than-expected US CPI numbers for …
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint offer to acquire PayPal for more than $53 billion. Summary Stripe and Advent …