New York/Hong Kong — Bitcoin jumped to a record high after Mastercard and Bank of New York Mellon moved to make it easier for customers to use cryptocurrencies.

The largest digital asset rose as much as 7.4% to $48,364, surpassing the all-time high reached on Monday after Tesla announced it would hold $1.5bn of the cryptocurrency on its balance sheet. The wider Bloomberg galaxy crypto index also touched a record...

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