Blockchain

In an interview with American Banker, Belshe, who leads the world's largest independent cryptocurrency custodian, talked about regulatory changes under the new administration and his hopes for a digital asset market structure.

As interest in stablecoins increases, and regulatory guardrails appear on the horizon, institutions may be ready to work with secure digital asset platforms.

While often used to describe a digital asset that hedges against cryptocurrency's volatility, the reality of stablecoins is much more complex.

The distributed ledger developer announced the grant program in tandem with its real-world asset token standard.

The bank, which owns a minority stake in Viva Wallet, can take over the company in June if its valuation falls before a certain level — which has resulted in a legal dispute with Haris Karonis, the fintech's owner. That and more in American Banker's weekly global payments roundup.

Honorees from American Banker's Most Influential Women in Payments discuss spotting tangible uses for innovation, rather than buying into hype.

With transparency, security and reliability embedded at its core, a blockchain is not merely a way to enhance existing systems — it represents a model for what banking should aspire to be.

The U.S. is risking the status of the dollar as the world's reserve currency by delaying the launch of a central bank digital currency. Adopting a "federated" version of a CBDC could answer the concerns of many skeptics.

Ripple, MoneyGram and FV Bank all bolstered their ability to distribute digital assets, with cross-border transactions emerging as a primary use case.

Decentralized digital ledgers offer financial services supervisors extraordinary access to information while eliminating concerns about information reliability. That should be reflected in regulatory attitudes toward crypto.

Embracing the integration of TradFi and DeFi through tokenization is not just a trend — it is a necessity as we reshape the financial industry to drive growth and resilience in an increasingly complex world.

It won't be cryptocurrencies or central bank digital coins that revolutionize global finance, but rather banks offering deposit tokens that have many of the benefits of both.

Recent advancements in transaction processing aim to improve visibility into cash flow, which can be thrown into chaos with uncertain shipments.

The comments came during a two-hour chat on X Spaces in which Trump and his sons offered a decentralized finance company as an answer for the de-banked.

Traditional financial institutions have much to gain from collaboration with digital asset natives — and vice versa. It's time to realize that potential.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's overly broad expansion of the Dealer Rule is only the latest example of the agency's yearslong effort to stifle innovation in a vibrant and growing industry.

The SEC's pending requirement that securities trades settle within one day shouldn't be a problem for any modern financial firm. What we should be aiming for is real-time settlement.

The $1.1 billion-asset Vibrant is working with the San Francisco-based distributed ledger development firm Metallicus through its Metal Blockchain Banking Innovation Program to examine use cases.

Many assumed the advent of cryptocurrencies heralded a revolution in finance. The truth may be that crypto's overall impact on the financial services industry is more evolutionary than revolutionary.

Large global banks are experimenting with tokenization to make complex transactions faster, efficient and more auditable.