The largest Canadian pension fund Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) investment board is no longer pursuing any opportunities in the crypto market, Reuters reports.

While many announcements on crypto opening for major platforms were made in the country, we revisited those already functioning.

MoneyGram announced that they are launching cryptocurrency trading in partnership with a crypto exchange Coinme. Users of MoneyGram, a financial services provider, can now trade cryptocurrencies in a mobile application. The list of digital currencies is limited to Bitcoin, Ether, and Litecoin. The new feature is available to U.S.

Mastercard, one of the biggest payment providers, introduced Crypto Source a software that enables financial institutions to offer cryptocurrency trading and services to their clients. To launch the new program, Mastercard has teamed up with Paxos, a leading regulated blockchain infrastructure platform. The partnership aims to provide Paxos crypto-asset trading

This was a productive month for institutional crypto custody. We have seen a steady flow of news announcements about another financial giant launching crypto services for their clients. Three world-leading banks have started to provide their customers with crypto services.

The global fast food chain McDonald’s has started accepting BTC and USDT in the Swiss town of Lugano which aims to become a “European Bitcoin Capital”.

MYEG's Zetrix Blockchain announced that they will develop and operate the national layer 1 public blockchain as a part of the Malaysia Blockchain Infrastructure. Two companies, MYEG, a concessionaire for the Malaysia Electronic-Government ("E-Government") MSC Flagship Application, and MIMOS Technology Solutions, focused on generating technology solutions

In Sub-Saharan African countries, as the Chainalysis team report showed, the volume of cryptocurrency transactions is growing. A rise in popularity of the Peer-to-peer (P2P) method is also seen. Bank of Namibia (BON), in turn, has approved virtual assets as a payment.