In a recent speech on the future of money Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said a ban on crypto would stifle the useful innovation with blockchain; Mr Carney tells the FT about payment systems needing to change, “These must now evolve to meet the demands of fully reliable, real-time, distributed transactions.”; he also talked about the community driven approach to the tech and the many use cases for it that increases efficiency and transparency around systems that are in need of an upgrade. Source.
Continuing with its fintech acquisition strategy, BBVA has acquired Openpay; Openpay is a Mexican B2B payments platform with more than one million transactions per month; with the new support, Openpay will seek to triple its transaction volume. Source
