Articles tagged with stablecoins
PS26/18 tells crypto firms which activities need UK authorization. Applications open September 30. Miss February 28, 2027 and you lose transitional cover. The rulebook itself is October 25, 2027.
Coinbase and Moov will embed acceptance and settlement in more than 1,000 community banks, days before a Clarity Act cloture test. Visa, separately, is feeding card data to onchain lenders.
The USDC issuer agreed to buy Singapore's Tazapay in an all-stock deal. Close is 2027, MAS has to sign off, and the combined volume is not a simple sum.
With transaction volumes surpassing Visa and major fintechs building on stablecoin rails, digital dollars are quietly reshaping how money moves across borders.
The CLARITY Act passed the House in 2025 but remains stalled in the Senate. Here's what's blocking it, what it would change, and what happens next.
While regulators debate stablecoin classification, remittance companies and fintechs in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia are already using USDC and USDT to move money faster and cheaper than traditional banking allows.
On-chain stablecoin volume hit $7.2 trillion in February 2026, passing the ACH network for the first time. With total market cap at $316 billion and Citi forecasting $1.9 trillion by 2030, stablecoins are quietly becoming the settlement backbone of global finance.
The Bank for International Settlements released its annual report arguing that stablecoins fall short of the standards required to function as money, with particularly stark warnings for emerging market economies where adoption is growing fastest.
MoneyGram became an active validator on the Solana network, signaling that mainstream payment companies are moving beyond blockchain experiments and toward meaningful infrastructure participation in decentralized networks.