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Virginia-based Trustar Bank will acquire three Washington DC-area branches from Forbright Bank, adding $750 million in deposits as Forbright pivots to national digital lending.…
Standard Chartered and HSBC have executed the first live interbank transaction on Swift's blockchain-based ledger, marking a landmark moment for tokenized deposits and 24/7 cross-border payments.…
Coinkite's Coldcard hardware wallet rolls out critical firmware changes after a $130 million Bitcoin exploit, mandating user-added entropy in wallet seed generation.…
The CFTC issued a trading ban against former FTX and Alameda Research executives, while U.S. prosecutors pushed back on a soldier's motion tied to the Maduro removal affair.…
Trump presses for the Clarity Act, the CFTC threatens unilateral rulemaking, and the SEC debuts its first crypto fundraising framework — Washington's regulatory moment has arrived.…
The RISE program will use the Canton Network to consolidate and distribute state-administered benefits across three US states, with a pilot launch slated for 2027.…
The Federal Reserve and Alabama State Banking Department have jointly ordered SouthPoint Bancshares to shore up financial and managerial support for its banking subsidiary SouthPoint Bank.…
A CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee meeting in Washington erupted into open conflict between traditional derivatives incumbents and prediction-market upstarts over manipulation, insider trading, and regulatory fit.…
UAE authorities questioned Binance employees over third-party fund flows through a client account; all staff were cleared and released after providing statements.…
Laser Digital Japan, backed by Nomura, has received Japan's first new crypto exchange registration in four years, clearing the way for institutional crypto trading.…
Hungary's Parliament adopted Act XXXVIII of 2026 in late July, repealing its unique national crypto rules to achieve full alignment with the EU's MiCA regulation.…
Standard Chartered has issued $200 million in digitally native floating-rate notes on Euroclear's D-FMI, becoming the first G-SIB and UK issuer to do so.…