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U.S. Federal Reserve moves on proposals to implement GENIUS Act for stablecoins

The Fed proposed rules on putting last year’s GENIUS Act into place with regulations, including those governing stablecoin yield programs.…
Sep 24, 2026
Payments

Fed proposes new capital, redemption rules for stablecoin issuers

The Fed’s proposal would set capital requirements, a two-day redemption window and new reserve disclosures as regulators implement the GENIUS…
Sep 24, 2026
Institutional

Federal Reserve Unveils Stablecoin Rules on Reserves and Capital

The central bank opened two proposals for comment under the GENIUS Act, requiring issuers it supervises to back tokens fully…
Sep 24, 2026
Institutional

UK’s largest banks complete world’s first interbank transactions using tokenized deposits

Barclays, NatWest, and HSBC and others used tokenized deposits for remortgages and a marketplace-payment test, taking bank-issued digital cash beyond…
Sep 24, 2026
Payments

European stablecoin issuer Qivalis sees transformation of global trade finance

Jan-Oliver Sell, the CEO and founder of Qivalis, said the entire trade finance supply chain is moving into stablecoins. Read…
Sep 24, 2026
Payments

IBM opens beta Swift ledger link for 24/7 tokenized deposits

IBM’s beta link lets banks instruct tokenized deposit transfers on Swift’s ledger using existing payment messages and compliance processes. Read…
Sep 24, 2026
Payments

HIFI raises $37M to expand stablecoin payments, tokenized markets

HIFI CEO Zach Walsh told Cointelegraph the $37 million Series A is the company’s first priced funding round, though HIFI…
Sep 24, 2026
Industry News

Tencent rolls out payment app for foreign travellers ahead of Apec summit

Tencent Holdings on Thursday launched TenPayGo, a mobile payment app targeting foreign visitors, as the tech giant seeks to capture…
Sep 24, 2026
DeFi

Cloudflare Exec Says Ethereum’s Original Sharding Plan Could Work for Stablecoin Payments

Cloudflare’s Will Papper said on Unchained Premium that shard chains were “way too difficult for DeFi” but could work for…
Sep 23, 2026
Institutional

Circle launches 24/7 stablecoin FX engine as it chases a slice of the $10 trillion currency market

Screened firms can settle supported stablecoin pairs together, while local fiat access and custody require separate arrangements. The post Circle…
Sep 23, 2026