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The Fed, the FDIC and the OCC have confirmed that the capital treatment of tokenised securities and derivatives is the same as non-tokenised equivalents Tokenised securities posted as collateral will also be recognised as a credit risk mitigant on the same terms as the non-tokenised equivalents The capital treatment of a tokenised security is the same, irrespective of whether it is issued on a permissioned or permissionless blockchain. The three Federal banking industry regul

Ripple Custody is giving its customers, and by extension customers of its customers, access to “staking” services provided by Figment Ripple says integrating access to Figment “staking” infrastructure relieves its customers of operational, compliance and reporting demands Figment offers regulated institutional holders of tokens the opportunity to earn an income from validating transactions on Proof-of-Stake blockchains Digital asset custodian Ripple Custody has appointed Fig

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. Ki

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

Following successful tests as part of the ECB trials, Clearstream has launched a tokenisation platform for clients to issue and settle tokenised securities The earliest users of the tokenisation platform are expected to be issuers of commercial paper and Medium-Term Notes (MTNs) in the Euromarkets D7 DLT, which marks an expansion of the four-and-a-half-year-old D7 issuance platform, is a Cloud-based service supported by Google Cloud Clearstream has added a tokenised securiti

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 Sing

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