Blockchain

Binance has made a $100 million strategic investment in Circle and extended its commercial partnership with the USDC issuer for a further five years. The...

UBS and Mizuho have executed bilateral test transactions on Swift’s blockchain‑based shared ledger, completing trials designed to validate operational processes for cross‑border payments using...

Stablecoins and tokenised cash are emerging as critical infrastructure for the next phase of institutional digital asset adoption, as traditional financial institutions move beyond...

Visa has unveiled a new on-chain lending model designed to help stablecoin-linked card programmes and fintech firms access working capital, marking another step in...

For Sebastian Higgs, COO and co-founder of Cordial Systems, the digital asset journey began well before the current wave of institutional adoption began to...

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Lucy Rigby KC, has declared the digitalisation of wholesale financial markets a “national endeavour”, telling UK Finance that...

Citi has executed live USD transactions on Swift’s shared ledger, becoming the first US bank to process native payments on the infrastructure as part...

The Responsible Fintech Institute and Safeheron have launched a cross-regional pilot to test post-quantum cryptography for digital asset transactions, bringing together financial institutions and...

Standard Chartered has become the first G-SIB and the first UK issuer to issue digitally native notes through Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure D-FMI. The...

FalconX has announced a $1 billion secured lending facility with Ethena, aimed at deploying capital from the assets backing USDe into overcollateralised institutional credit. The...

HSBC and Standard Chartered have executed the first live cross‑border bank‑to‑bank transaction using tokenised deposits on Swift’s blockchain‑based ledger. The banks described it as...

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has launched a proof-of-concept to bring Japanese Government Bond (JGB) repo transactions on-chain, working with Digital Asset, Progmat and...

Coinbase has secured Financial Services Permission from Abu Dhabi Global Market’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), allowing it to establish an international tokenisation hub...

Circle has announced the founding validator cohort for Arc, its new blockchain network designed for financial markets, payments and institutional digital asset activity. The network,...