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Singapore's Financial Services and Markets (Amendment) Bill 2026 would empower MAS to impose minimum loss-absorbing capacity rules on systemically important financial institutions.…
Gemini has secured a Major Payment Institution licence from Singapore's MAS, covering cross-border money transfers and digital payment token services.…
Switzerland's CHF Stablecoin Sandbox enters live testing on 8 September 2026, adding SIX and TWINT as key partners in the digital franc experiment.…
Circle's $400M acquisition of Tazapay signals a decisive shift from crypto experimentation to stablecoin infrastructure, targeting the payment delivery gap that digital dollars have yet to solve.…
Robinhood takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com, routing event contracts through OG.com's CFTC-regulated infrastructure to expand its prediction markets business.…
Cronos, the Crypto.com-linked Layer 1 network, confirms $9.19 million remains unrecovered following the August 30 Tectonic exploit, despite validators executing a controversial chain rollback.…
Chime agrees to acquire Oklahoma-based Stride Bank for $590 million in cash, converting a key banking partnership into direct ownership and full regulatory standing.…
Circle agrees to acquire Singapore's Tazapay in a US$400 million all-stock deal, signalling a major push into B2B cross-border payment infrastructure pending MAS approval.…
Chime moves to acquire long-time partner Stride Bank for $590M, choosing full-stack banking ownership over the slower route of pursuing its own charter.…
Block has applied to the OCC to establish a national trust bank offering custody services for bitcoin and stablecoins, marking a major push into regulated crypto finance.…
Titan argues that slapping a banking interface on a general-purpose AI model is not the same as building intelligence that understands banking from first principles.…
Pay.UK underpins billions of British transactions annually, yet almost no one outside banking knows it exists — and that invisibility may be masking deep structural fragility.…