Blockchain

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.

When you centralize a blockchain, you lose much of its inherent value. Acting Comptroller Michael Hsu's support for centralized tokenization betrays a misunderstanding of the value of decentralization.

Projects are underway at a number of payment firms including PayPal, Circle and Ripple. Location and regulation will also play a big role in what the market looks like in the next year.

The blockchain company is targeting non-financial clients and new geographic regions in a series of product rollouts.

The global clearinghouse inked the deal with Securrency as part of its push to expand the use of the emerging technology in capital markets.

Ripple, Coinbase and Circle all received licenses to operate under the nation's stablecoin regulations, which offer more clarity than American rules do.

The service was created to meet institutional clients' needs for real-time payments.

"Smart" contracts enable the Chicago-based trust bank to carry out deals without intermediaries, while archiving details on transactions that can be useful later. Experts say other banks could follow despite the complexities of cutting-edge technology and the risk of being hacked.

A Figure spokesperson said the decision to withdraw the banking charter application was to enable the company to focus on other areas of growth.

The Government Accountability Office called for Congress to pass blockchain regulation legislation to shore up the federal regulatory apparatus.