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…
Fireblocks runs the wallet layer for Cari’s tokenised…
Fireblocks has set out its role as the operational layer beneath the Cari Network, a 24/7 inter-bank tokenised deposit system built by chartered US banks — but the part worth reading twice is the instrument,…
Mastercard closes $1.8bn BVNK deal for $30bn stablecoin…
Mastercard has closed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK, and the number that matters is not the $1.8 billion price tag. It is $30 billion — the annualised stablecoin payment volume Mastercard now owns…
Yellow Card takes $40m from the bank its…
The most striking thing about Yellow Card's $40 million raise is not that Standard Chartered's venture arm led it. It is what Yellow Card's chief executive said about where this all ends. "The very near…
Partior PoC settles stablecoins against tokenised deposits
Partior, the blockchain settlement network built by JP Morgan, DBS Bank, Standard Chartered and Temasek, has completed a proof of concept with tokenisation infrastructure firm OpenAssets demonstrating atomic delivery-versus-payment between digital assets, regulated stablecoins and…
Vanguard’s first digital assets role sits in wealth,…
The interesting detail in Vanguard's first-ever digital assets job posting is not that the firm is hiring for crypto. It is which division is doing the hiring. The Head of Digital Assets role sits inside…
BIS finds stablecoin flows shrug off capital controls
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has published the empirical case for something emerging-market central bankers have been describing anecdotally for two years: dollar stablecoin flows do not respond to capital controls, while foreign-currency bank…
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…