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Embattled cryptocurrency exchange Binance has lost some business with payment card networks Mastercard and Visa.
The development is a sign of how traditional financial institutions are growing wary of working with the company as it faces intense regulatory scrutiny and wider concerns around financial compliance within the crypto industry.
Mastercard will soon no longer offer Binance-branded cards in Latin America and the Middle East, which let customers user their crypto to purchase goods, Binance said Thursday via X, the company formerly known as Twitter.
“The product, like most debit cards, has been utilized by Binance’s users to pay for basic daily expenses but in this case, the cards are funded with crypto assets,” Binance Customer Support said on Twitter.
“Only a tiny portion of our users (less than 1% of users in the markets mentioned) are impacted by this. Users of this product will have until September 21, 2023, when the card will no longer be available for use.”
“Binance accounts around the world are not affected. Where available, users can also shop with crypto and send crypto using Binance Pay, a contactless, borderless and secure cryptocurrency payment technology designed by Binance,” the company added.
Mastercard confirmed that it is ending the partnership, with a spokesperson telling CNBC that, from Sept. 22, four pilot Binance co-branded Mastercard card programs the company had with Binance in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Bahrain “will no longer be in use.”
“This provides cardholders with a wind-down period to convert any holdings in their Binance wallet,” the Mastercard spokesperson said. “There is no impact on any other crypto card program.”
Visa, meanwhile, also moved to distance itself from Binance. The company ended a similar card tie-up with Binance, as it ceased issuing new co-branded cards with the firm in Europe as of July, a spokesperson for the company told Bloomberg.
Binance and Visa were not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
It’s a sign of how crypto continues to face a broadly tepid response from the financial services industry.
Backlash
Mastercard had warmed to crypto in recent years. In Oct. 2021, the firm began allowing any bank or merchant the ability to offer crypto services. Last year, the company launched a product allowing banks to assess the risk of crime posed by crypto merchants, and started letting banks offer crypto trading.
For its part, Mastercard said its decision to end the tie-up with Binance has “no impact on our wider commitment to enabling and securing digital assets, which we continue to support.”
Binance faces intense backlash from regulators including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The SEC brought 13 charges against Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao accusing the company of commingling billions of dollars in customer money with Binance’s own funds, similar to allegations made against the now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX.
Binance denies the allegations.
The firm recently filed a protective order against the SEC, saying the regulator’s requests for information were “over broad” and “unduly burdensome.”
Last week, Checkout.com reportedly dropped Binance as a customer, citing “reports of regulators actions and orders in relevant jurisdictions,” “inquiries from partners,” and concerns over the firm’s anti-money laundering, sanctions and compliance controls.
Signage at eBay headquarters in San Jose, California, U.S.
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Shares of eBay popped 10% in extended trading on Wednesday after the online marketplace posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter, and offered an upbeat forecast for the current period.
Here’s how the company did in the second quarter compared to analyst estimates compiled by LSEG.
Earnings per share: $1.37 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected
Revenue: $2.73 billion vs. $2.64 billion expected
GMV, or the dollar value of items sold, grew 6% year over year to $19.5 billion. That topped analysts’ projected $18.9 billion, per StreetAccount estimates.
For the third quarter, eBay said revenue will land between $2.69 billion and $2.74 billion, above Wall Street expectations for $2.66 billion. The company also guided for adjusted earnings per share of $1.29 to $1.34. Analysts anticipated $1.31 per share.
EBay said third-quarter GMV would be in the range of $19.2 billion and $19.6 billion, which was higher than consensus estimates of $18.8 billion.
GMV guidance “contemplates potential disruptions from impending tariffs and the potential elimination of remaining de minimis exemptions,” eBay said.
Earlier on Wednesday, President Donald Trumpsigned an executive order ending the loophole for low-value packages shipped from all countries, effective Aug. 29. The provision enabled shipments valued below $800 to enter the U.S. duty free.
EBay CEO Jamie Iannone said in an interview following the earnings report that the company is “well suited” to navigate any further uncertainty generated by Trump’s tariff policies or changes to de minimis.
“When we look at what happened, for example, when de minimis was eliminated in China, it did have a deceleration in direct shipments, but a lot of the sellers started making their products available to buyers in other countries like the U.K. and Germany,” Iannone said.
He added that the company “forward deployed” about 75% of its inventory from China into the U.S. before the changes to de minimis policies.
“We feel comfortable with the guidance that we put out there,” Iannone said.
EBay faces robust competition from online retail rivals Amazon, Walmart and Etsy, along with upstarts like low-cost e-commerce platforms Temu and Shein. To keep buyers and sellers returning to its site, the company has embraced “enthusiast” shoppers and “focus categories,” such as collectible sneakers and trading cards, used luxury goods and auto parts.
The company in May named Peggy Alford, a former PayPal executive, as its new CFO, succeeding Steve Priest. EBay also announced a broader leadership restructuring that involved bringing its technology teams closer together, Iannone said.
The company has also implemented more artificial intelligence tools to help consumers find products on its site, including a shopping agent, which launched earlier this year.
“We’re already seeing really tangible benefits from generative AI on our P&L, and we think we’re only scratching the surface in terms of how to leverage our data,” Iannone said.
As of Wednesday’s close, eBay shares were up 25% for the year, while the Nasdaq has gained about 9%.
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on May 9, 2024.
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Figma, the developer of design software that was supposed to get acquired by Adobe, priced its IPO on Wednesday at $33 per share, above its expected range.
The company’s stock will debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FIG” on Thursday. The offering raised $1.2 billion, with most of the proceeds going to existing stockholders.
Figma is aiming to take advantage of a public market that has slowly reopened for tech IPOs. Stablecoin issuer Circle and artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave have soared since their debuts earlier this year, while other companies including online banking firm Chime, and health-tech companies Hinge Health and Omada Health have also made it to market.
The offering values Figma at $19.3 billion. The company had agreed to be acquired by Adobe for $20 billion, but that deal fell apart in 2023 following objections from regulators. Adobe paid Figma a $1 billion termination fee.
On Monday, Figma said its expected price range was $30 to $32 per share.
Figma was founded in 2012 by CEO Dylan Field and Evan Wallace. The company is based in San Francisco, with offices in France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the U.K.
Figma said in its updated prospectus that revenue for the quarter ended June rose to between $247 million and $250 million from $177.2 million a year earlier, representing growth of 40% at the middle of the range. As far as profits, the expected range for the quarter goes from an operating loss of up to $500,000 to an operating profit of $2.5 million, Figma said. That compared to a loss of $894.3 million a year earlier, due mostly to costs related to stock-based compensation.
For the March quarter, revenue rose 46% to $228.2 million, and net income tripled to $44.9 million.
Field is the company’s biggest investor, with 56.6 million shares ahead of the offering, along with voting control over another 26.7 million shares. Index Ventures is the leading institutional stakeholder, with 65.9 million shares, or 17 % of shares outstanding before the IPO. Greylock is second at 16%, followed by Kleiner Perkins at 14% and Sequoia Capital at 8.7%.
All of the top investors are selling a portion of their stake in the IPO.
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks in front of the OpenAI logo at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, Washington, on May 19, 2025.
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The $4 trillion club has a second member, at least based on after-hours trading.
Following a better-than-expected earnings report on Wednesday, Microsoft shares jumped 8%, lifting the software giant’s market cap to about $4.1 trillion. Should the rally stick on Thursday, Microsoft would join chipmaker Nvidia, which hit $4 trillion for the first time earlier this month.
Microsoft reported 18% revenue growth, its fastest rate of expansion in over three years, driven by its Azure cloud computing business. Microsoft disclosed Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, and said sales from Azure and other cloud services exceeded $75 billion in fiscal 2025, up 34% from the prior year.
As of the close on Wednesday, Microsoft shares were up 22% for the year, topping the S&P 500’s 8% gain. Microsoft hit a record close of $513.71 on July 25. The stock is above $553 in extended trading.
Nvidia and Microsoft, two of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom, have zoomed past Apple on the market cap leaderboard. Apple is third at about $3.2 trillion, with its stock having fallen 17% this year as investors worry that the iPhone maker is getting left behind in AI. Apple reports quarterly results after the bell on Thursday.
Among tech’s megacaps, Nvidia has been the best performer in 2025, up 33%. The chipmaker’s graphics processing units (GPUs) are the backbone of the large language models being developed by Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Meta and others, and they’re filling up data centers being built by those same companies.
Nvidia is scheduled to report results in late August.