Stablecoin infrastructure provider Bridge has secured a conditional federal banking licence from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) The licence, once fully approved, will enable Bridge to custody digital assets, issue Stablecoins and hold Stablecoin reserves Bridge is the sixth Stablecoin or digital assets company to secure an OCC banking licence in the last five months Bridge , the Stablecoin infrastructure provider owned by Stripe since February last year,

Cross-border payments company Payoneer is adding Stablecoins to the payment options it offers customers The Stablecoin capabilities will be deliver via technology supplied by Bridge, the Stablecoin infrastructure provider owned by Stripe Users of the Payoneer service will be able to hold Stablecoins, pay and get paid in Stablecoins, and transfer the value of Stablecoins to bank accounts Payoneer , the Israeli cross-border payments company that listed on NASDAQ in 2021 via a S

A Future of Finance interview with Emmanuel Daniel, founder of the TAB Global.   Emmanuel Daniel, founder of the TAB Global research house, thinks about the effects of digital technology on finance and how the changes it makes possible will impact business and society. In The Great Transition – the personalisation of finance is here, published in September 2022, he predicted that blockchain technology would shift Internet finance from centralised, market-based platforms to a

The government of Bermuda is working with Circle and Coinbase to put the island economy on blockchain Circle will provide the USDC Stablecoin and Coinbase the blockchain infrastructure Payments by USDC are merely the starting point for tokenisation of all financial transactions and assets in Bermuda The Government of Bermuda has announced it plans to move the island’s economy on to the blockchain, initially by embracing the USDC Stablecoin issued by Circle as the principal m

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has built an infrastructure with Canton Network called DisH to put commercial bank money on-chain The DiSH infrastructure, unlike the tokenised deposit platforms developed by banks, is an open network not a closed universe DisH aims to facilitate settlement of traditional financial market transactions as well as digital asset transactions on blockchains On 15 January 2026 the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced it had launched a

Lloyds Bank issued tokenised sterling deposits onto the Canton Network public blockchain and used them to buy a gilt-edged security from Archax Lloyds ran its own node on the Canton Network rather than rely on the network provider, so retained control of customer service standards Tokenised deposits, unlike Stablecoins, enable users to stay within regulatory perimeters and deposit insurance schemes Lloyds Banking Group, Archax and Canton Network say they have proved that a UK

J.P. Morgan is pioneering the use of tokenised deposits to make payments between banks J.P. Morgan blockchain unit is issuing its tokenised deposit on Canton Network, the second public blockchain it is using after Base The native issue of the JPMD tokenised deposit on to Canton Network will take place in phases through 2026 Tokenised deposits, hitherto trapped within banks, are starting to become available for inter-bank payments through native issuance on public networks.  K

Sony Bank, the online banking arm of Sony Corporation, is considering the issuance of a Sony-branded US dollar Stablecoin Sony Bank is working with Bastion, an NYDFS-licensed blockchain infrastructure provider, in the United States Stablecoins enable corporates to capture customer spending, offer micro-rewards, cut payment transaction costs and earn net interest margin Sony Bank Inc., the online banking arm of the Sony Group Corporation, the Japanese electronics, video games

A Future of Finance interview with Richard Brown, Chief Executive of R3 Labs    The pivot by R3 from private to public blockchains through its partnership with Solana might be one of those apparently arcane technical deals - like IBM and Microsoft or Apple and ARM - that changes everything. It allies regulated, institutional money with an open blockchain protocol that can compete with existing equity and debt marketplaces on volume, speed and price, while still delivering on

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The digital payments arm of Ant Group, operator of the Alipay mobile payments platform, has integrated Kinexys Digital Payments into its treasury platform Ant Financial and Kinexys parent J.P. Morgan say the integration offers Ant Financial the ability to make payments in three major currencies 24/7 The cross-currency payment capability operates outside normal banking hours but remains within the J.P. Morgan private permissioned blockchain network Ant International, the Singa

Circle has agreed to link its payments infrastructure with the cross-border payments platform provided to banks by technology vendor Finastra The link will enable banks to settle payments in the USDC Stablecoin without requiring customers to instruct in USDC The arrangement gives banks the option to settle payments without going via their traditional correspondent banks Payments technology vendor Finastra and Circle, issuer of the USDC Stablecoin, say they are working togethe

A Future of Finance interview with Martin Hargreaves, Chief Product Officer at Quant Network. A Future of Finance interview with Quant Networks’ Chief Product Officer Martin Hargreaves. Quant is applying programmable payments to modernise payments processes and workflows, embedding programmability at customer account level rather than into the payments infrastructure. Speaking to Bob Currie, Contributing Editor at Future of Finance, Hargreaves describes how this model can imp

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Blockchain-based cross-border payments technology company Ripple has bought prime broker Hidden Road for US$1.25 billion The Ripple Stablecoin RLUSD will facilitate cross-margining between digital assets and traditional markets for Hidden Road customers Hidden Road will migrate its post-trade activity to the XRP Ledger (XRPL), the Ripple blockchain Ripple, the technology company that uses blockchain to speed up and lower the cost of cross-border payments, has acquired non-ban

USDC Stablecoin issuer Circle has acquired the USYC tokenised money market fund issued by Hashnote Circle will integrate the USYC tokenised money market fund with its USDC Stablecoin The integration will enable cryptocurrency traders to switch easily on-chain between tokenised cash and tokenised interest-bearing collateral USDC issuer Circle has   acquired Hashnote, the issuer of the US Yield Coin (USYC) tokenised money market fund, which currently has US$1.52 billion in asse

Circle, issuer of the USDC Stablecoin, says it will support the use of USDC by participants of the Canton Network blockchain The recent acquisition by Circle of the USYC tokenised money market fund means Canton Network users can use USDC in tandem with USYC The USDC-USYC combination will appeal to cryptocurrency firms looking to trade tokenised securities and funds as well as cryptocurrencies Circle says its USDC Stablecoin will be available on Canton Network. It means USDC c

Just four countries have issued a central bank digital currency (CBDC). But the CBDC Tracker suggests that interest in CBDCs is far from moribund. In September 2024 26 central banks had a CBDC at the pilot stage and another 30 at the proof-of-concept stage. A further 103 are researching the idea. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) website lists 20 CBDC research projects in which central banks have taken part since 2016. Just seven central banks have cancelled their

It is universally agreed that lack of fiat currency on blockchains is an obstacle to the growth of digital assets. In cryptocurrencies, market forces solved this problem with the invention of the Stablecoin. Though trivial in value (US$172 billion total market capitalisation in September 2024) by comparison with the value of fiat currencies outstanding (US$215 trillion), Stablecoins have in the year to mid-September 2024 been used by about 180 million active addresses in US$4