Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig said the agency is exploring regulations that would establish clearer rules of the road for crypto exchanges and decentralized finance developers operating in the U.S.

President Trump lobbied again for Congress to pass the CLARITY crypto market structure bill, but paths toward this Congress doing so are treacherous with few legislative days left.

The Securities and Exchange Commission kicked off rulemaking intended to make it easier for crypto firms to raise money without having to go through the full securities registration process.

Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego, Ariz., and Angela Alsobrooks, Md., signed on to the bill, signaling a hardening of their position on an ethics provision in the CLARITY market structure bill.

World Liberty Financial, a digital asset venture co-founded by members of the Trump family, received conditional approval for a national trust bank charter.

An SEC spokesperson attributed the cancellation to an "unforeseen scheduling issue" and said the meeting would be rescheduled "to a later date."

The future of on-chain finance in the U.S. is dependent on there being statutory certainty about the rules of the road. The Clarity Act may not be perfect, but passing it is essential to maintaining U.S. leadership in the field.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the cryptocurrency market structure bill will be considered "first thing" after senators return from recess in September.

The CLARITY bill is still on Congress' to-do list before their summer break, but some of the more unusual provisions are causing a hold-up.

Digital currency can be tracked and if stolen "burned," then reminted and given back to its rightful owners. That could be a powerful anti-fraud tool.

The Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to pay $150,000 to crypto exchange Coinbase to settle a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the company two years earlier.

Draft cryptocurrency market structure legislation published Wednesday includes an ethics agreement that falls short of what Senate Democrats want and stablecoin yield language that banks have already disavowed.

As the regulatory landscape for digital assets becomes clearer, it is vital that stablecoin reserves, custody and settlement services, and the provision of liquidity not be concentrated within a small number of companies.

The recently announced consortium of crypto companies behind OpenUSD, a new dollar-denominated stablecoin, will have to demonstrate that it can build partnerships with banks and intermediaries before it can challenge USDC and Tether.

The banks now let institutional clients mint and redeem Circle's USDC directly, turning them into stablecoin infrastructure providers.

The Museum of American Finance opened a free, Smithsonian-affiliated home in Boston's Seaport on Friday, betting it can make money history stick.

Pinnacle Financial Partners' headquarters is moving to a new 25-story office tower in Midtown Atlanta; New Jersey-based Provident Bank appoints Adriano Duarte to succeed Thomas Lyons as chief financial officer; Binance will shut down services for customers in France, Italy, Spain and Poland after the exchange withdrew its MiCA licence application in Greece; and more in this week's banking news roundup.

Banks are merging the ubiquity of fiat money with the advantages of digital networks and are building the kinds of products crypto firms can't match.

The former New York governor will chair a new effort aimed at tokenizing financial products on chain and bringing 24/7 digital trading to NYSE-listed assets.

Chair Travis Hill said the Silicon Valley Bank failure showed banks can't always sell securities fast enough to cover deposit outflows, but acknowledged the "stigma problem" with discount window borrowing remains unsolved.