OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
U.S. Bank’s USBDC stablecoin goes live on Stellar…
The USBDC stablecoin that U.S. Bank announced on September 9, 2026 settled its first live cross-border payment on the public Stellar network, and the pilot deliberately exercised freezing and clawback alongside minting and payment redemption.…
Circle buys Tazapay for $400m to reach 100…
Circle Internet Group has agreed to buy Singapore's Tazapay for $400 million in stock, and the notable part is what it is not buying: stablecoin conversion. Roughly 60% of Tazapay's transaction volume already involves stablecoins,…
ECB and Brazil study a TIPS-Pix link, pilot…
The European Central Bank's confirmation that it is studying a link between TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) and Brazil's Pix is being read as a rails story. The more useful question is what the link…
Swift defers structured address deadline, securities ship in…
Swift has deferred the payments half of Standards Release 2026 while letting the securities and trade changes proceed to a Q1 2027 go-live — a split that quietly concedes the bottleneck is not the standard…
Fasset hits $1bn valuation on $68m Series C…
Fasset has raised $68 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation in a round led by Japan's SBI Group, and the number worth reading is not the valuation. It is the corridor…
HSBC and Standard Chartered net deposit tokens on…
The first live interbank transaction on Swift's blockchain-based ledger did not settle on the ledger. HSBC and Standard Chartered announced on 19 August 2026 that they had completed the first live cross-border transaction using tokenised…
TransFi builds JARVIS in-house to unify KYC and…
TransFi has built an artificial-intelligence compliance intelligence platform called JARVIS, and the most useful thing to say about it is what it is not. It is not a RegTech product a broker or payment service…
QRIS-China QR link is two-way, but runs 205-to-1…
The Indonesia–China QR corridor is one of the few cross-border QR links in Asia that genuinely settles in both directions — and Bank Indonesia's own sandbox data shows why that distinction matters far less than…