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New Stablecoin Rules Push Banks Into the Crypto Front Line

Crypto April 11, 2026

Rules governing stablecoins are taking concrete form, and the details suggest that banks and FinTechs will face a more exacting set of responsibilities than some may have anticipated.The Federal Depo�...

Treasury to Give Crypto Firms Same Cybersecurity Intel as Banks

Crypto April 11, 2026

The Treasury Department will provide eligible U.S. digital asset firms and industry organizations the same cybersecurity information it regularly shares with traditional U.S. financial institutions.T...

US Treasury Secretary Bessent Urges Congress to Pass Crypto Bill

Crypto April 10, 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessentcalled Thursday (April 9) for Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act), warning that the current lack of a clear regulatory framework is ero�...

Binance App Adds One-Click Access to Prediction Markets

Crypto April 10, 2026

The apps new Prediction Markets feature is powered by an integration with third-party platforms, starting with Predict.fun, Binance said in a Thursday (April 9) announcement. Users can now take posi�...

Treasury Proposes Anti-Money Laundering Framework for Stablecoin Issuers

Crypto April 10, 2026

The Treasury Department has proposed a rule that would require permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) to adhere to anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions compliance obligations.The propos...

Crypto Embraces Regulator-in-the-Loop Strategy as Federal Rules Roll Out

Crypto April 10, 2026

Few industries have fates as entwined with their regulatory guardrails as crypto. After all, few industries are as unregulated as crypto has traditionally been. At least in the U.S.But as the Securit...

Circle Launches Managed Payments for Stablecoin Settlement

Crypto April 9, 2026

Circle has launched Circle Payments Network (CPN) Managed Payments, a new stablecoin settlement solution.The new offering, announced by the stablecoin issuer in a news release Wednesday (April 8), ...

Swiss Banks Join Forces on Franc-Based Stablecoin Project

Crypto April 9, 2026

A group of Swiss banks are testing a franc-pegged stablecoin in their home country.The CHF stablecoin sandbox a reference to the currency code for the Swiss franc will examine ways to connect blockch�...

Why Banks Want to Issue Stablecoins

Crypto February 11, 2026

The idea of a bank-issued digital asset was once an oxymoron. Today, its one thats gaining momentum.On Friday (Feb. 6), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clarified that national t...

Tokenization’s Institutional Pitch Hits a Liquidity Wall

Crypto February 11, 2026

Despite the sudden surge of enterprise interest in stablecoins, it was the tokenization of real world assets (RWA) that represented the crypto sectors first major play for the institutional financial�...