A study on high-concurrency payment systems proposes a distributed architecture with layered consistency control to ...

The Treasury Department controls trillions of dollars' worth of payments that Americans rely on every day — and it's caught the eye of the Department of Government Efficiency. Nearly all federal ...

The finding is among the first oversight reports Congress’ watchdog has released about the controversial cost-cutting team.

An effective currency needs to be widely accepted, easy to use, and stable in value. By now most of us have recognized that cryptocurrencies fail at all three things, despite lofty ideals revolving ...

It's time to drag sclerotic, paper-based U.S. federal payment operations into the digital future. The technology exists, and America's global competitors are already putting it to use, warns Dimitri ...

Crypto adoption shifts from speculation to payments, driven by infrastructure solutions. White-label crypto gateways ...

Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about international payments. Recent reactions to US policymaking and tariffs have contributed to a decline in the ...

Australia’s A2A consultation says payment systems may need interoperability between bank money and tokenized fiat ...

The Treasury Department said Elon Musk's DOGE staff had "read-only" access to its payment system. Democratic lawmakers and federal-worker unions have criticized the access to personal data. The ...