Payments

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...

Kraken has launched its Krak Card in the United States, giving customers the ability to spend from more than 600 assets while earning up...

Polygon Labs has joined Nobo Finance and Dun & Bradstreet in the second phase of the Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab, exploring how...

Thunes has expanded its stablecoin liquidity management capabilities with the launch of EURC prefunding across its Direct Global Network. The integration of Circle’s MiCA-compliant, euro-backed...

Western Union has launched Stablecard, a digital wallet and USDPT-backed Visa secured credit card designed to help consumers hold, transfer and spend US dollar...

Insurance payments platform Diesta has integrated Kinexys by J.P. Morgan’s payee verification technology to help insurers, brokers and managing general agents (MGAs) reduce payment risks and improve digital settlement processes. The...

Three leading US digital asset industry bodies have called on the US Senate to bring the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act to the Senate floor, arguing that the...

Anthropic will support the second cohort of firms taking part in the FCA's Supercharged Sandbox. The scheme gives firms access to Claude, Claude Code and...

A cross-party parliamentary group has launched an inquiry into UK banks' treatment of crypto firms.It comes as the UK implements its new crypto regulatory...

Visa has launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP), a new enterprise platform designed for financial institutions, fintechs and other payment providers. The platform gives these companies a...

HSBC has become the first banking group approved to operate in the UK’s Digital Securities Sandbox. It comes as the UK accelerates plans to...

The European Central Bank has selected 36 payment service providers, including Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas, to participate in its digital euro pilot —...

JP Morgan’s securities services business posted 17% revenue growth in the second quarter.It comes as the bank pushes deeper into tokenised assets through Kinexys,...

The world's biggest banks have lined up behind SWIFT's new blockchain-based ledger, with pilot participants highlighting a common theme: the need for real-time, 24/7...

Swift has activated its new blockchain-based ledger for live cross-border payment trials with 17 global banks. It comes as financial institutions increasingly modernize systems to...

BNY has launched enhanced stablecoin services allowing institutional clients to store and manage USDC. It comes as traditional financial institutions continue to use new technologies...