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Société Générale subsidiary SG-FORGE is making its EUR CoinVertible euro-denominated Stablecoin available on the Ripe-owned blockchain XPRL Société Générale hopes XPRL will increase use of the EUR CoinVertible, already available on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, in trading activity Euro Stablecoins remain modest by comparison with US dollar equivalents but S&P predicts a €1.1 trillion markets by 2030 as Stablecoins are used in payments French universal bank Société Géné

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

After a four-month competitive tender the UK government has chosen HSBC’s Orion platform to host issuance of an experimental tokenised government bond The so-called Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) has proceeded slowly since it was first announced in November 2024, and progress looks set to remain slow Though a digital gilt is a potentially transformative initiative, concern remains that the UK is falling behind rival jurisdictions in its embrace of tokenisation The United Kin

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

A group of digital asset exchanges and one CSD have warned European institutions their blockchain reforms are too slow to compete with the US With reforms not scheduled for implementation until 2030, the group suggests a mini package of liberalising measures within the DLT Pilot Regime sandbox now The proposed “quick fix” reforms will allow DLT Pilot Regime licence holders to tokenise any asset and grow faster for longer before being fully regulated A group of digital asset e

European digital assets exchange 21X is offering buy- and sell-side customers of LeveL Markets access to tokenised financial instruments Customers of the LeveL Markets equity trading dark pools for buy- and sell-side institutions will access tokenised instruments through existing interfaces Institutional order flows are expected between traditional and tokenised instruments and vice-versa 21X , the Frankfurt-based token exchange licensed under the DLT Plot Regime administered

The ECB will accept as collateral for credit tokenised versions of securities and other assets it accepts already The tokenised assets eligible as collateral will initially be non-native only but native assets will become ECB-eligible in future The extension of ECB eligibility to tokenised securities is an opportunity for national and international CSDs with tokenisation platforms The European Central Bank ( ECB ) says it will accept tokenised versions of eligible assets as c

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

Lingfeng Capital is listing its Digital Venture Fund (DVF) in token form on the LSEG DMI digital assets platform Archax is providing issuance, connectivity and custody services to make the tokenised fund interoperable with the traditional fund The DVF fund is invested in a variety of fintech businesses funded by Lingfeng Capital The Digital Venture Fund (DVF), a fintech investment fund managed by Beijing-headquartered and Hong Kong-managed Lingfeng Capital , will launch in to

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

Security tokens and fund tokens will be traded 24/7 Security tokens and fund tokens will settle using Stablecoins Tokenised cash and collateral are key to the NYSE strategy The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) says it is going to develop a regulated platform for on-chain trading and settlement of security tokens. It is planning to build a separate infrastructure that will operate 24/7 and settle trades in security tokens instantly using Stablecoins. The new platform will host

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

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

BitGo, Fidelity and Stablecoin issuers Circle, Paxos and Ripple have secured national trust bank licences from the OCC The licences will enable the five firms to offer digital asset issuance, trading, staking, settlement and custody services throughout the United States The licence approvals mark a second change in policy direction at the OCC in the last five years The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ( OCC ) in the United States has approved national trust bank lice

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

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

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 toget