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…
GENIUS Act deadline lands with foreign issuers in…
The GENIUS Act's one-year rulemaking deadline expired on July 18, 2026, but the foreign payment stablecoin issuer regime — the provision that decides whether roughly $189 billion of offshore-issued USDT can lawfully reach US users…
FATF review: Travel Rule at 83% as stablecoins…
The Financial Action Task Force's July 16, 2026 targeted update reports that 83% of surveyed jurisdictions have now passed Travel Rule legislation — up from 73% a year earlier — while warning that most identified…
Visa launches stablecoin platform for 15,000 banks, fintechs
Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) on July 16, 2026, giving its network of roughly 15,000 financial institutions a single system to mint, redeem, custody and settle stablecoins — and the launch math explains…
Velocity raises $38m to push stablecoins into treasury…
Look at who wrote the cheques before reading the product description. Velocity's $38 million Series A, announced July 15, 2026, was co-led by crypto fund Dragonfly and generalist FirstMark — but the strategics on the…
Coinbase’s 3.5% USDC reward survives the July 18…
The US stablecoin yield ban takes full effect on July 18, 2026, and the largest yield payment in the market will survive it untouched. Coinbase pays holders of USD Coin (USDC) 3.5% annual percentage yield…
Visa, Stripe and Coinbase back Open USD to…
A consortium of more than 140 businesses — including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, American Express, BlackRock, BNY, Google, Shopify and, pointedly, Coinbase — has launched Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin built to share reserve earnings with…
FCA finalises UK crypto rules and refuses to…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the final rules for the United Kingdom's cryptoasset regime on June 30, 2026, cutting stablecoin capital from 2% to 1%, building a bespoke market-abuse regime, and explicitly refusing to…
Binance says 70% of EU users self-custodied after…
The Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regime was built to pull European crypto users inside the regulated perimeter. Binance's own exit data suggests it did the opposite. Co-chief executive Richard Teng says roughly 70% of the…