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In Strategically Important Collaboration, Swift and 17 Banks to Pilot Tokenised Deposit Transactions
Swift has announced that its blockchain-based ledger is ready for early adopter financial institutions to support 24/7 cross-border payments via interoperable tokenised deposits. The pilot represents the first step in what might unfold as the payment network’s response to the emerging threat posed by stablecoins. In all, 17 banks from six continents are preparing to…
Circle Set to Diversify Services via Trust Bank
Circle, the issuer of the world’s largest regulated stablecoin – USDC – has received approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A., a national trust bank. The bank will operate under the name Circle National Trust. Via its trust bank, Circle will be…
Open Standard Group Set to Challenge Circle, Tether in $300 Billion Stablecoin Market
A consortium led by Visa, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, and including more than 140 financial services, e-commerce, technology and DLT players, plans to launch a US Dollar-denominated stablecoin dubbed Open USD later this year. When it goes live, the Open Standard group will challenge existing leaders Circle and Tether, which between them dominate the $300+…
Citi’s Research Predicts Massive Digital Asset Market Growth; Provides DLT Implementation Advice
Citi’s June 2026 research report titled Tokenization 2030: Wall Street On-Chain makes key predictions on the expected institutional embrace of digital assets over the next five years and offers some best practice advice for those implementing DLT to support tokenisation initiatives. Overall, the report highlights the current initiatives by institutions to move from small pilot projects to…
Chainlink’s DLT-Based Project Pangea Tackles T+0 FX Settlement
Oracle provider Chainlink’s Project Pangea has assembled 50+ banks across 16 countries to bring DLT-powered real-time atomic settlement to the $9.6 trillion per day foreign exchange market. The project’s bank partners include members of three European and Korean consortia, while the technology base comprises Chainlink’s CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol), Swift’s ISO 20022 messaging service and…
State Street Launches GENIUS Act Stablecoin Fund
State Street Investment Management has launched the State Street Stablecoin Reserves Money Market Fund, a regulated money market fund designed to support stablecoin issuers. The fund, which complies with the recently introduced GENIUS Act, offers a regulated reserve option for stablecoin issuers. State Street Bank and Anchorage Digital are the first investors in the fund….
Welcome to Digital Assets & Tokenisation Insight: Tracking the Rise of Programmable Assets, DLT and Wall Street 2.0
The infrastructure that underpins today’s institutional financial markets is being rewired to support instantaneous transactions, always-on operation, hacker-proof privacy, and drastically reduced costs. Platform upgrades that leverage distributed ledger technology (DLT – including blockchain networks, smart contracts and cryptographic proofs), asset programmability via tokenisation, peer-to-peer transactions, and decentralised data, are being implemented to boost functionality,…
Tokenisation’s Real Barrier Is Perception, Not Regulation, Summit Panel Argues
Stablecoins account for roughly $300 billion of tokenised value, intraday repo products are running at billions per day on distributed ledger infrastructure, and at least one retail venue has processed $25 billion in tokenised equity trading. Yet institutional adoption remains sluggish, held back, a panel at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 argued, less by…
LMAX Group and Ripple Partner to Embed Stablecoins at the Core of Institutional Cross-Asset Trading
LMAX Group has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Ripple, integrating Ripple’s USD-backed stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), as a core collateral asset across its institutional trading infrastructure. Under the agreement, RLUSD will be embedded across margining, collateralisation, custody and settlement workflows, supporting trading activity across spot crypto, perpetual futures and CFDs. Ripple will also…
Recorded Webinar: Unpacking Stablecoin Challenges for Financial Institutions
The stablecoin market is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by emerging regulatory clarity, technological maturity, and rising global demand for a faster, more secure financial infrastructure. But with opportunity comes complexity, and a host of challenges that financial institutions need to address before they can unlock the promise of a more streamlined financial transaction ecosystem. These…