Payments

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...

Archax has rolled out real‑time, second‑by‑second cash‑flow streaming for tokenised securities issued on the Hedera network, introducing automated interest payments in USDC that update...

Improving access to financial services has long been the goal of institutions across the digital assets industry. One of the main selling points of...

ClearBank Europe has launched its digital asset rails, a new capability enabling programmable liquidity for cross-border settlement. Now live, the service is being used by clients for cross-border payment flows,...

Mastercard Transaction Services has been granted a BitLicense by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). The license introduces requirements regarding consumer protection, cybersecurity, financial...

Project Agorá has successfully demonstrated that a shared ledger can address many of the pain points it was set up to overcome, according to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which led the project.  A report published by BIS today confirmed that...

Visa has added five blockchains to its global stablecoin settlement pilot, expanding how issuers and acquirers can settle with the network.  The five new networks: Arc: An...