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How to Evaluate Neo-Banking and DeFi Hybrid Tokens
Articles

How to Evaluate Neo-Banking and DeFi Hybrid Tokens

Crypto platforms now offer a familiar bundle: an account, a card, transfers, sometimes FX. Behind that front end sit lending markets, staking and liquidity pools. Many of these projects also have a native token, and that is where investors often get confused. In practice, a neo-banking and DeFi hybrid token is the governance or utility […]

Nasdaq Verafin Partners With Stablecore on Cross-Asset Financial Crime Detection
Blockchain & Crypto

Nasdaq Verafin Partners With Stablecore on Cross-Asset Financial Crime Detection

Nasdaq Verafin and Stablecore announced a partnership that unifies digital asset and traditional banking data, giving financial institutions a combined view of financial crime risk across fiat and digital asset channels.

ECB Opens Digital Euro Pilot to Online and Mobile Merchants
Blockchain & Crypto

ECB Opens Digital Euro Pilot to Online and Mobile Merchants

The European Central Bank (ECB) has opened its digital euro pilot to online and mobile commerce merchants across the euro area, giving businesses an opportunity to test how the proposed central bank digital currency could work in real payment environments.

Bitcoin Rebounds as Treasury Buybacks Ease Rate Pressure, But Security Cracks Widen Elsewhere
Blockchain & Crypto

Bitcoin Rebounds as Treasury Buybacks Ease Rate Pressure, But Security Cracks Widen Elsewhere

Bitcoin recently staged a sharp comeback, now hovering around $80K for several weeks. The late August surge was extremely notable after the prolonged $60-65K summer lull. At the same time, two separate incidents involving a hardware wallet and a mid-cap blockchain have reopened debate on how much the industry can actually trust its own custody […]

Bottomline Partners With Chainlink to Bring Its Bank Network On-Chain
Blockchain & Crypto

Bottomline Partners With Chainlink to Bring Its Bank Network On-Chain

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.

Citi Processes Live Dollar Payments on Swift Blockchain Ledger
Blockchain & Crypto

Citi Processes Live Dollar Payments on Swift Blockchain Ledger

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 Expands Agenda With Prediction Markets, Compliance Tech and Marketing Focus
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SBC Summit 2026 Expands Agenda With Prediction Markets, Compliance Tech and Marketing Focus

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.

How Will Blockchain Change Retail Business: Top 5 Options
Blockchain & Crypto

How Will Blockchain Change Retail Business: Top 5 Options

Blockchain will change retail in five ways

Cronos Blockchain Halts After Tectonic Exploit Strands Funds
Blockchain & Crypto

Cronos Blockchain Halts After Tectonic Exploit Strands Funds

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.

FV Bank Launches Global Managed Accounts for Payment & Fintech Platforms
Fintech & Ecommerce

FV Bank Launches Global Managed Accounts for Payment & Fintech Platforms

Embedded banking is expanding as fintechs and payment platforms seek to provide accounts and payment services without building their own banking infrastructure. 

Top 15 ‘Blockchain as a Service’ Platforms
Blockchain & Crypto

Top 15 ‘Blockchain as a Service’ Platforms

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.

Stablecoins Turn Spendable: $50B in Card Payments Signal Next Crypto Adoption Wave
Blockchain & Crypto

Stablecoins Turn Spendable: $50B in Card Payments Signal Next Crypto Adoption Wave

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 2026: New Token Rules Could Reshape US Crypto Issuance
Blockchain & Crypto

SEC Regulation Crypto Assets 2026: New Token Rules Could Reshape US Crypto Issuance

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 […]

Major Banks Embrace Tokenised Deposits as Stablecoin Alternative
Blockchain & Crypto

Major Banks Embrace Tokenised Deposits as Stablecoin Alternative

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 Bank Network Triples to 30 Institutions
Blockchain & Crypto

China’s Digital Yuan Bank Network Triples to 30 Institutions

China’s digital yuan e-CNY network expansion tripled in less than a year showing how quickly central-bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can scale.

Bank of England Pilots Digital Pound-Stablecoin Trade Payments: Which Fintech Providers Involved?
Blockchain & Crypto

Bank of England Pilots Digital Pound-Stablecoin Trade Payments: Which Fintech Providers Involved?

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, […]