A digital version of the British pound may feature a way to verify the holder's age and citizenship status, potentially smoothing the purchase of alcohol and tobacco and transactions with government agencies.

Long, founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, has pushed for digital-asset regulation in her home state of Wyoming. Now she's working on a national scale.

Some of the world's largest banks found that digital dollars could be an effective way to improve domestic and cross-border payments, according to a unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Bank of New York Mellon didn't think it would need to record on its balance sheet digital assets held in custody when it asked the New York State Department of Financial Services for permission to offer the service, according to a filing obtained by American Banker. The SEC has since said otherwise.

So says Solidus Labs, a New York-based company that specializes in ways to monitor suspicious crypto transactions.

The allegation that Binance encouraged the use of location-obscuring technology so that it could illegally serve U.S. clients is a symptom of a broader problem for financial services companies.

JPMorgan Chase expanded one of the most high-profile projects to bring blockchain technology to traditional banking, introducing euro-denominated payments for corporate clients using its JPM Coin.

CEOs have to determine if this is really a viable business in a viable sector and whether these deposits can be safely used to support the fundamental mission of providing credit to the community.

Understanding the different aspects of new technologies and how they extend existing financial systems is essential for fostering a healthy relationship between banking and emerging innovations.

The idyllic existence of Federal Home Loan bank leaders has persisted for 90 years. Now the castle walls may be crumbling.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu said the banking industry has been largely insulated from crypto winter, but added that bank interest in servicing the crypto industry has waned over the same period. 

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If the U.S. and Canada don't develop a coherent framework for regulating the industry, North America risks broader losses to other growing industries, like fintech and artificial intelligence.

House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., has posted a discussion draft of stablecoin legislation that includes some concessions to committee Democrats.

Binance.US told users its payment and banking partners had signaled an intent to pause support for the exchange's dollar channels as early as June 13.

Josh Williams, chief banking officer for Seattle Bank, explains how changes in payments technology will affect smaller institutions.

Regulators need to recognize the uniqueness and potential of cryptocurrency instead of seeking to fit crypto assets into an outdated regulatory framework.

A study from Surfshark found that crypto scams cost their victims about five times as much money as losses from other cybercrimes.

State officials from California to New Jersey along with the SEC are focusing on Coinbase's staking program, which offers customers a return for letting their tokens be used to facilitate blockchain transactions. 

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