India's BharatPe raises $50m to help merchants accept digital payments and secure working capital

Africa’s Largest Bank Joins Blockchain-Based Marco Polo Network

Coinsquare Partners With FlexaHQ to Bring Crypto Payments to Canada

How The Watch Industry Is Testing Blockchain And Cryptocurrency, Plus Five Brands That Have Already Waded In

Safeway Shoppers Can Now Get Bitcoin Back as Change at 894 US Stores

Fintech startup soCash raises $8.17m in Series B funding round

Fintech Startup Finix Raises $18 Million, Aims To Become The Twilio Of Payments

Series A

Goldman, Bain Back $371 Million Loan to U.K. Fintech Startup

Blockchain is no silver bullet against the black market

Pot-Tracking Blockchain System Could Be Used by CVS, Walgreens

Sunbit Raises $26M in Series B Funding Round

SpotOn Raises $40 Million Funding Round Led by Franklin Templeton and Dragoneer Investment Group

Brex valued at $2.6bn with new cash from Kleiner Perkins

What Facebook's Cryptocurrency Means: 6 Predictions

Russia’s Third Largest Food Retail Firm Uses Blockchain-Based Open Trade Finance Platform

Coinbase Now Lets Merchants Accept Payments in USDC Stablecoin

Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior Owner Unveils Blockchain Platform to Verify Luxury Goods

eBay to Accept Crypto? New York Adverts Hint at Huge Mainstream Breakthrough

Starbucks, Nordstrom And Whole Foods Now Accept Bitcoin, Just Don’t Ask Them

Square acquires conversational AI startup Eloquent Labs

Domino’s looking for a pizza blockchain action

London payments firm Checkout.com valued at almost $2bn in record Europe deal

Tobacco Giant Philip Morris Is Building a Different Kind of ‘Public’ Blockchain

Nike Files Trademark Application in the US for ‘Cryptokicks’

Top 3 Japanese Bank to Roll Out Services on Marco Polo Blockchain

Intellimize raises $8 million to optimize websites with AI

You Can Now Shop With Bitcoin on Amazon Using Lightning

FPT Corporation and SBI Holdings Invest $3 Million in Vietnamese Blockchain Project

Mastercard Buys POS Financing Provider Vyze

World's Largest Business Organization Embraces Blockchain

Swiss luxury hotel now accepts payments in Bitcoin

Bumble Bee CIO: Blockchain is better than a database for tracking tuna

Square Is Staffing up for a New Cryptocurrency Unit, Says Jack Dorsey

Largest Swiss online retailer now accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP

Startup Finturi Raises $2.2 Million for Its Blockchain-Based Invoice Finance Platform

Will Blockchain Be a Boon to the Jewelry Industry?

French tobacco shops to sell bitcoins via fintech company

An article discussing French tobacco shops' plan to sell bitcoins.

LitePay Merchant Solution Ceases Operations, Litecoin Foundation Apologizes For Hype

The article provides a nice explanation of LitePay's faliure. LitePay was heavily promoted because it was seen as a means to bring LiteCoin to a broader audience. However, the company ceased operations only a short time after it began, withering under scrutiny including its CEO's failure to successfully answer questions from Reddit users during an "Ask me Anything" session.