Paxful


Finance

Paxful to Roll Out Crypto Debit Card for US Customers

The peer-to-peer digital asset marketplace is launching a Visa card, starting in the U.S. market.

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Markets

Paxful, Turkey-Based BiLira, Cointral to Expand Crypto Offerings in Eastern Europe

Paxful said the partnerships will allow users to trade bitcoin and tether using a lira-backed stablecoin.

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Markets

Paxful, Citing Regulations and Its Own 'Risk Tolerance,' Exits Venezuela's P2P Bitcoin Market

The exit deprives Venezuela's crypto scene of its second-largest P2P exchange.

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Policy

Where FATF Crypto Compliance Gets Interesting: Africa

Crypto businesses seeing strong growth across the 54-country continent are working hard to meet the FATF's anti-money laundering standards.

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Markets

Paxful Chips Away at LocalBitcoins' Russian P2P Market Dominance

Paxful’s year-old foray into Russian crypto markets is paying off for the peer-to-peer exchange.

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Markets

Charlie Shrem TLDL: Ray Youssef and Crypto’s Role in Africa

Ray Youssef joins Charlie Shrem to discuss Paxful's mission in Africa, the liberating power of crypto and the unfairness of the African franc.

Ray Youssef, CEO of Paxful

Markets

OKEx Taps Paxful to Provide New Fiat-to-Crypto On-Ramps

OKEx is partnering with Paxful, adding more than 160 fiat currency onramps to its crypto exchange business.


Finance

How Bitcoin Fits Into Lebanon’s Banking Crisis

Lebanon's crisis has been raging for years, but the devaluation of the Lebanese pound and a global downturn has made stable financial services even more urgent.

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Videos

Crypto Across Emerging Markets with Leigh Cuen: Ray Youssef, Paxful

It's been said that the killer use-case for crypto is in emerging markets. We bring experts from around the world in to talk about crypto adoption in their local economies. In this section, reporter Leigh Cuen talks to Ray Youssef of Paxful.

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Crypto Across Emerging Markets With Leigh Cuen: The Rise of Paxful

Few people have broader insight into peer-to-peer bitcoin trading patterns than Paxful CEO Ray Youssef. He says Argentina, Venezuela and Nigeria, just to name a few, continue to see growing demand for bitcoin so far in 2020. “Africa is leading the way, particularly Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa,” Youssef said.

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