
Payward, the company behind Kraken, has plugged into Singapore Gulf Bank's real-time clearing network so institutions in Asia and the Gulf can settle dollars at any hour, starting with a select group of clients.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

Modern Treasury wants a limited-purpose national trust bank to custody stablecoins next to its payments software, and it is applying while community bankers contest that exact charter in court.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

OpenPayd's chief executive expects the SPAC merger that would list the payments company on Nasdaq to close by the end of 2026. The filing's trust and minimum-proceeds terms carry more risk than the headline valuation.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 6, 2026

Community bankers have taken the Comptroller of the Currency to federal court over trust charters for crypto firms. The suit exposes some charters and not others, and the line between them is worth knowing.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 6, 2026

Bank of North Dakota is the first live user of Fiserv's stablecoin infrastructure, and the coin moves money between North Dakota banks, not consumers. The release gives no volumes.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 4, 2026

About 17% of stablecoin-linked card volume at Visa sits in business and commercial programs. The number is real, but it measures cards funded with stablecoins, not companies settling invoices on-chain.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 3, 2026

The release describes testing, not production: no bank is named as live and no launch date is given for the USDC workflows.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 30, 2026

Citi becomes bank of record for Coinbase virtual accounts and for stablecoin acceptance at checkout, though the release offers no client names, volumes or fees.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 29, 2026

Socure has put its identity and fraud checks at the Arc Onramp, where users convert fiat into USDC inside apps on Circle's network. It already serves four of the five largest US crypto exchanges.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 29, 2026

Capgemini expects stablecoins, tokenized deposits and CBDCs to carry about 4% of global payments volume by 2030. It puts roughly $230 billion of bank payments revenue at stake.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 27, 2026

Binance owns a slice of the company whose stablecoin it has agreed to promote for five years. The equity matters less than the distribution, and the distribution is aimed squarely at Tether's home turf.
Marvin Evans·September 23, 2026

SoFi Bank has put its entire card book onto a stablecoin it issues itself. The harder step, persuading outside merchants to settle in that token, has not started.
Marvin Evans·September 23, 2026