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News/crypto
Citi is the latest big-name traditional financial services player to invest in stablecoin infrastructure platform BVNK.
1 hour
It is inevitable that the entire financial market will be tokenised, according to Vlad Tenev, co-founder and CEO of online trading platform Robinhood
02 October 2025
Payments giant Stripe and corporate spend management player Brex have unveiled products that bring stablecoins closer to the mainstream.
30 September 2025
News/Sibos
In the only Europe-centric session at Sibos in Frankfurt, Swift’s Marianne Demarchi led a conversation titled: “View from the Top: Securing Europe’s financial future - Resilience, autonomy, and global impact.”
Following the popular session on building tomorrow’s bank at Sibos 2024, McKinsey’s Megha Kansal moderated a follow-up session on the year’s developments in Frankfurt.
News/payments
Visa is promising financial institutions a long-overdue upgrade to the movement of capital in cross-border payments via a pre-funding stablecoin platform.
Digital assets are one of the key themes at Sibos 2025, and day one featured several sessions covering the intricacies of stablecoins, CBDCs, and the world of crypto.
News/retail
Fiserv has signed a definitive agreement to buy StoneCastle Cash Management. Financial terms were not disclosed.
In the opening plenary of Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, executives at Swift and leading German banks Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Bank introduced the themes of the conference and what can be accomplished on ‘the next frontier of global finance’.
29 September 2025
Hot on the heels of news that nine European banks have partnered to launch a Euro denominated stablecoin, Finextra spoke to Floris Lugt, digital assets lead at ING, about the catalyst for this launch and why they didn’t want to wait for the ECB’s digital euro launch slated for 2029.
25 September 2025
Nine European bank have joined forces to launch a euro-denominated stablecoin designed to challenge the dominance of dollar-led tokens.
Coinbase is adding Singapore dollar stablecoins to its platform through a tie-up with licenced issuer StraitsX.
24 September 2025
Shield, a neobank startup using stablecoin payments to make life easier for global trade businesses, has raised $5 million in seed funding.
Ripple has joined forces with Securitize on a smart contract that allows holders of BlackRock and VanEck tokenised funds to exchange their shares to Ripple for the firm's stablecoin.
PayPal Ventures has made a strategic investment in Stable, the layer 1 blockchain network for stablecoin transactions.
23 September 2025
Two Asia-based fintechs, Line Next and Kaia, have launched what is described as a stablecoin superapp, designed to facilitate cross-border payments.
22 September 2025
Growing from a market capitalisation of $130 billion to $280 billion since the end of 2023, Stablecoins continue to grow in relevance. Recent regulatory framework introductions have begun to go further and introduce their adoption within broader applications across traditional finance.
19 September 2025
News/inclusion
Kredete has raised $22 million to help African immigrants in North America and Europe build credit and send remittances via stablecoin payments.
Stablecore has raised $20 million for a platform that helps community and regional banks and credit unions offer stablecoins, tokenized deposits and digital asset products.
18 September 2025
News/regulation
The Bank of England has come under fire for proposals to impose strict caps on the value of stablecoins that individuals and companies can hold.
15 September 2025
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