Stablecoins
Clear Junction backs Agant’s GBPA for institutions
Clear Junction Group and Agant have partnered to widen institutional access to GBPA, Agant’s pound sterling stablecoin, as the market for non-dollar stablecoins continues to develop. With stablecoin activity...
MoneyGram unveils stablecoin as it rebuilds infrastructure
MoneyGram has launched MGUSD, a fully branded US‑dollar stablecoin that will sit at the core of a complete overhaul of the company’s global payments...
Citi’s predictions for Wall Street On-Chain
Tokenisation of real-world assets will surge from a $17 billion market today to as much as $5.5 trillion by 2030, according to Citi.According to...
ClearBank rolls out stablecoin rails
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,...
S&P Global Market Intelligence: Stablecoins to reinvent global B2B payments
Stablecoins are set to transform the $100trn global B2B payments market, offering an alternative to costly checks and wires, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Stablecoins provide near‑instant, low-cost settlement, positioning the technology as...
Visa adds five blockchain networks to stablecoin pilot
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...
Stablecoin cross-border B2B transactions to reach $5 trillion by 2035
The total value of cross-border B2B stablecoin transactions will reach $5 trillion by 2035, up from $13.4 billion in 2026, according to a study from Juniper Research. The...
McKinsey: Digital assets are reshaping the future of fintechs
The rise of digital assets, including stablecoins and tokenised deposits, is reshaping the future of the fintech industry, according to a new report from...
UK–US task force could define future of global finance
A transatlantic task force between the UK and US could reshape the future of global finance, according to policymakers and industry leaders. At the Innovate...
UK risks falling behind in digital assets
The UK will struggle to become a global hub for digital assets unless regulators balance consumer protection and competitiveness, industry leaders have warned. Speaking at the Innovate...
UK government to support payments infrastructure modernisation
In an announcement at IFGS, Lucy Rigby KC MP told attendees the UK government has published details on how it will support and modernise payment systems infrastructure. This will...
BIS backs tokenisation over stablecoins for payments
The head of the Bank for International Settlements has said tokenisation, not today’s stablecoins, is the development most likely to reshape cross‑border payments and...
PBW: SG-Forge on measures of regulatory clarity
Regulatory strategy and regulatory progression should be assessed as separate measures of market clarity, according to panellists at Paris Blockchain Week.On a panel discussing...
HSBC advances stablecoin plans
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, a subsidiary of HSBC, has been issued a stablecoin issuer licence by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority...
OwlTing Group expands Visa collaboration
OwlTing Group has expanded its collaboration with Visa to support the use of Visa Direct within OwlPay’s payment infrastructure, enabling eligible US debit cardholders to acquire USDC stablecoin without...
Swiss banks launch joint CHF stablecoin sandbox
UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank, BCV and Swiss Stablecoin AG have formed a new industry consortium to test a Swiss‑franc‑denominated stablecoin in a...