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Banks fear stablecoins will drain deposits. But history shows adaptation beats resistance — and stablecoins could be banks’ biggest upgrade.
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Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum is launching a fund to help investors maximize their Bitcoin yield while retaining price exposure. Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum launched a product for investors who want to earn yield on Bitcoin without sacrificing price…
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Bitcoin
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SWIFT plans to build its own blockchain in order to process transactions faster between banks from around the world. Some view it as the group’s effort to compete with the speed and scale of stablecoins. According to a recent Financial…
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Qatar National Bank has recently adopted JP Morgan’s Kinexys blockchain technology to process its USD payments, providing faster transactions and around-the-clock services for fiat currency. On Sept. 29., one of the largest financial groups in the Middle East, Qatar National…
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Nine major European banks have signaled their intention to launch a euro-denominated stablecoin in the second half of 2026. ING, UniCredit, Danske Bank, and CaixaBank are among a consortium of nine leading European lenders eyeing a joint euro stablecoin, according…
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A group of nine European banks plan to join forces to develop a euro stablecoin in order to combat the U.S. dollar’s domination within the stablecoin market. According to a recent Bloomberg report, nine European have teamed up to establish…
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Morgan Stanley is set to offer cryptocurrency trading via its platform E-Trade; the bank is in a tie-up with digital assets platform Zerohash.
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Tokenization offers Africa a different path: not an improvement of the banking system, but a replacement for banks entirely.
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Spanish banking group BBVA has teamed up with Ripple to provide institutional-grade custody for Bitcoin and Ethereum to its retail customers in Spain. BBVA partners with Ripple for crypto custody Spanish banking group BBVA has partnered with Ripple (XRP) to…
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XRP
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President Alexander Lukashenko has urged Belarusian banking leaders to expand the use of cryptocurrencies and modern digital payment systems as he believes the country’s outdated financial practices can no longer support its sanction-hit economy. Doubling down on his newfound urgency,…
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SoFi Bank will use Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to launch low-cost international money transfers, beginning with Mexico later this year. As part of its partnership with payments infrastructure provider Lightspark, announced on Aug. 19, SoFi Bank will offer near-instant cross-border payments…
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The Federal Reserve has announced that it will terminate a supervisory program that focused increased bank scrutiny on cryptocurrencies. The Federal Reserve said in a press release that it will be sunsetting its novel activities supervision program, with this seeing…
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Citigroup is looking to make a further foray into the crypto and blockchain ecosystem with custody and payments solutions for stablecoins and crypto exchange-traded funds. The U.S. banking giant is considering a move into crypto custody, stablecoin payments, and other…
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Bitcoin
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Inside sources say Binance is working with Spanish bank BBVA to keep crypto assets off exchanges, allowing customers to store digital assets in the bank instead of the platform. According to a recent report by the Financial Times, the major…
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Fidelity National Information Services is partnering with global stablecoin issuer Circle to bring stablecoin adoption into banking infrastructures. What will the partnership entail for customers? On July 29, the two companies declared the collaboration aims to help financial institutions, particularly…
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USDC
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Citigroup claims to be exploring stablecoin adoption amidst accelerated regulations in the United States and Hong Kong to accommodate. How far are they willing to dive? Major financial institutions are now seeking opportunities to benefit from the current stablecoin wave…
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