Stablecoins

Treasury eyes BoE fee regime expansion

HM Treasury has launched a consultation on plans to widen the Bank of England’s supervisory fee regime to cover systemic digital settlement asset service...

UK–US deal strengthens capital market tokenisation plans

The UK government is drawing a direct line between its domestic tokenisation pilots and a new regulatory alignment with the United States, signalling a...

IMF: Tokenisation could reshape global financial architecture

The International Monetary Fund has set out how tokenisation could transform the world’s financial architecture, arguing that policy choices made now will determine whether...

Crédit Agricole launches Euro stablecoin EURXT

Crédit Agricole, France's second-largest banking group, has launched EURXT, a MiCA-compliant euro-pegged stablecoin, through its asset servicing arm CACEIS.  The token was used to complete the...

BNY expands relationship with Circle

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...

Euroclear and SG-FORGE explore USD stablecoin settlement

Euroclear and Societe Generale-FORGE (SG-FORGE) will collaborate to explore how digital cash solutions could support the issuance and settlement of short-term funding instruments in US dollars.  The collaboration will assess...

Bank of England updates stablecoin guidance

The Bank of England has published its policy statement and draft Code of Practice (rules) for systemic stablecoin issuers, softening the rules following industry backlash. The policy statement...

Macro implications for stablecoin remuneration

Both a reserve-based or an activity-based remuneration model for stablecoins will lead to far reaching macro-financial implications, according to a report by the Bank for International Settlements. Under the reserve-based model,...

State Street IM launches stablecoin reserves money market fund

State Street Investment Management has launched the State Street Stablecoin Reserves Money Market Fund, a GENIUS Act-aligned fund targeting stablecoin issuers. State Street Bank and Trust Company, and Anchorage Digital, home...

Japan’s largest banks plan stablecoin issuance

Japan’s three largest banks are preparing to issue a stablecoin, as momentum builds around blockchain-based payment infrastructure. The banking arms of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group,...

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...