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The U.K. Treasury has set a formal new objective for the Bank of England to ensure its regulatory framework actively fosters stablecoins, tokenization, and distributed ledger technology.…
A new bill heading to the House of Lords grants the Bank of England a formal duty to foster stablecoin innovation, while keeping financial stability its primary objective.…
Better and Coinbase have unveiled a Bitcoin-collateralized mortgage product that allows US homebuyers to use Bitcoin as down payment collateral without selling their holdings.…
TRM Labs appoints former MAS official Ziqing Ang as Head of Policy for APAC, tasking her with bridging blockchain intelligence and regional regulators on digital asset crime.…
Bitfinex Securities has completed a record $50 million tokenized capital raise for Alkemya, a nickel-asset partnership whose token marks a milestone for commodity tokenization.…
Core Lightning has disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities and is preparing a patch, urging node operators to go offline until the update is applied.…
The ECB's Digital Euro Scheme Rulebook signals a decisive shift from policy debate to real infrastructure, with sweeping technical and operational frameworks now taking shape.…
Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first live interbank tokenised deposit transaction on Swift's blockchain ledger, marking a milestone for 24/7 cross-border payments.…
DBS Bank and Stripe are joining forces to help Asian businesses accept international payments and manage funds globally, combining regional banking depth with world-class payment infrastructure.…
Vietnam's Techcombank is weighing a deal worth up to US$2 billion that would hand a 15% stake to either France's BNP Paribas or South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank.…
Visa has entered Singapore's MAS-supported BLOOM program to test stablecoin settlement, signaling a pivotal convergence of traditional payments rails and digital-asset infrastructure.…
A coalition of 39 US state bankers associations has unveiled the BankChain Alliance, a shared industry-controlled blockchain network to modernize payments and deposit services.…