A company that moves more than $16 trillion a year through the world’s banking pipes has plugged itself into blockchain rails. The Bottomline Chainlink partnership, announced this week, is more than another crypto integration for the correspondent-banking world.
Correspondent banking has run the same way for decades. Money typically moves between banks through a chain of intermediaries, and payments pause on weekends and holidays. That is finally starting to change, and Citi’s Swift blockchain ledger transactions this week are a bright illustration.
SBC Summit 2026 is expanding its agenda to address some of the fastest-changing issues facing the betting and gaming industry, with new dedicated tracks covering prediction markets, compliance technology and marketing and customer experience.
Blockchain will change retail in five ways
For a few hours on Sunday, an entire Cronos blockchain simply stopped. No transactions, no transfers, no trading, just frozen mid-motion across every wallet and app built on it. The trigger was a single exploit on one lending platform. Here’s what happened and how crypto industry handled a crisis caused by Tectonic exploit.
Embedded banking is expanding as fintechs and payment platforms seek to provide accounts and payment services without building their own banking infrastructure.
Blockchain as a Service, also known as BaaS, is a way to access blockchain technology without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure from scratch.
Stablecoin card spending is expected to grow 4x in the next few years. Main crypto adoption driver would be routine card payments.
SEC Regulation Crypto Assets could mark a turning point in how the US treats companies that raise money through digital tokens. The proposal is detailed, technical but still open to change, and its approach could have consequences well beyond American crypto markets. Here is what the new framework could mean for token issuers, fintech companies […]
Tokenised deposits may sound like just another fintech buzzword. But this week’s cross-border settlement between two global banks suggests they’re anything but.
China’s digital yuan e-CNY network expansion tripled in less than a year showing how quickly central-bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can scale.
NOBO Finance, Dun & Bradstreet and Polygon Labs have been selected to take part in Phase 2 of the Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab. The programme is a sandbox where the central bank and outside companies test, with no real money involved, whether a digital pound could work alongside other forms of digital money, […]
Coinbase has received regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi to offer tokenized securities, a step that lets the crypto exchange bring traditional stocks onto the blockchain outside the United States.
P2P blockchain network Ravencoin is facing a serious test of transaction finality after a critical flaw affected its blockchain. Two mining pools controlling most of the network’s hashpower are rebuilding the chain from before the first invalid block, potentially putting around four days of transactions at risk of reversal.
Singapore’s wealthiest and most experienced investors are not waiting for regulators to catch up. New research from digital asset bank Sygnum shows that three in four of the city-state’s high-net-worth and professional investors already own tokenized assets, at the same time as the country’s financial regulator is asking the public whether ordinary retail investors should […]
Western Union has launched the Stablecard app, a digital wallet and Visa card that lets people hold and spend U.S. dollar value backed by a stablecoin. The company built the product with Rain, a stablecoin infrastructure provider. Stablecard is live in 37 markets, and Western Union plans to expand to more than 60 markets by […]
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