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Giorgio Armani, the billionaire designer who established one of the world's most revered fashion labels and helped define the "Made in Italy" slogan as a sign of quality for consumers, has died. He was 91.

Pointsville, a Pittsburgh-based company that helps businesses manage digital assets and loyalty programs, raised $10 million in capital to speed up growth in Central and South America. The deal valued Pointsville at $84 million.

Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market, has the regulatory approvals needed to launch in the US after a top regulator granted it another critical component to launch, according to its chief executive officer, Shayne Coplan.

Omeed Malik's 1789 Capital, an investment firm that includes Donald Trump Jr. among its partners, has been pitching a new fund focused on South Florida real estate, according to people familiar with the matter.

U.S. Bancorp is relaunching its cryptocurrency custody services for institutional investment managers, becoming one of the early bank providers in an increasingly competitive space.

Trimont Real Estate Advisors Inc., a global commercial real estate loan servicing company, is using JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s blockchain platform to help speed up and automate loan payments, as more companies look to crypto's underlying technology as .. ...

Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said stablecoins could make moving money across borders faster and less costly as the central bank prepares to unveil its plans to regulate them.

Artificial intelligence tools will boost stablecoin usage as the two technologies become more closely intertwined, according to Michael Novogratz, founder and chief executive officer of Galaxy Digital.

Stripe Inc. is among the first financial-technology firms to directly and publicly appeal to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to take immediate action against banks charging for access to their customers' financial data.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google doesn't have to sell its popular Chrome web browser, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in the Justice Department's landmark antitrust case against the search engine.