Finovate

JUNE 23, 2025

Fiserv is leveraging Paxos, Circle, and Solana to launch FIUSD , a new stablecoin integrated into its global banking and payments infrastructure. In a move that signals growing mainstream adoption of digital assets, payments giant Fiserv has unveiled plans to launch its own stablecoin, FIUSD.

Stablecoins

The Fintech Times

MARCH 6, 2025

Unifying global fiat and stablecoin payments, stablecoin payments infrastructure provider BVNK has announced a new embedded wallet. They have existed in today’s market for some time but have had limited capabilities to manage stablecoin, crypto and fiat payments in one place. Why stablecoins?

Stablecoins

Payments Dive

JULY 17, 2025

Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Topics Sign up Search Sign up Search Retail Banking Restaurants Regulations & Policy Risk Technology B2B An article from Mastercard, Visa play down stablecoin threat The giant card networks are sifting through the opportunities and threats that stablecoins present for their businesses.

Stablecoins

The Payments Association

JUNE 9, 2025

It enhances resilience, broadens access, improves interoperability, and enables innovation, thereby modernising the UK’s financial infrastructure. RT2 offers four key advancements: enhanced resilience, expanded access, wider interoperability, and improved functionality. Why is it important? What’s next?

ISO 20022

Fintech News

MAY 19, 2025

StraitsX has launched its Singapore dollar-backed stablecoin, XSGD, on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), marking a new phase in its collaboration with Ripple to support real-time digital payments across Asia. XSGD is a stablecoin regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and backed 1:1 by reserves held with DBS Bank and Standard Chartered.

Stablecoins

Fintech Review

APRIL 10, 2025

This collaboration enhances the Borderless.xyz network by integrating Capas local payment rails, enabling seamless, faster, and more cost-efficient transactions for financial institutions, payments companies, fintechs, and corporates operating in Mexico.

Stablecoins

Finextra

JUNE 23, 2025

Location Joburg Followers 5 Opinions 23 Follow Unfollow For years, stablecoins existed in a regulatory grey zone – popular as “digital cash” but lacking official oversight. policymakers have sketched out the first federal framework for payment stablecoins. This means the “stable” in stablecoin is now legally enforceable.

Embedded Finance

The Fintech Times

JULY 3, 2025

Ripple Payments employs blockchain and digital assets, and a global network of payout partners to deliver fast, transparent, reliable cross-border payments and on/off ramps for banks, crypto companies, and fintechs worldwide. The partnership marks progress for OpenPayd’s recently launched stablecoin infrastructure.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

AUGUST 7, 2025

The UK must act fast on open, global crypto rules to lead in digital assets, boost stablecoin use, drive tokenisation, and spur economic growth. The strategy should also consider interoperability with global regulatory frameworks, so firms do not face conflicting requirements and unnecessary burdens.

Regulations

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 23, 2025

We often explore how fintechs are changing the banking and payments landscapes, and sometimes look into how their solutions are supporting financial inclusion and helping people develop healthy financial habits. Sending cross-border payments, for example, often comes with heavy processing costs and conversion fees.

FinTech

Finextra

JUNE 8, 2025

A stablecoin issuer, once niche and volatile by association, had now joined the ranks of America’s oldest financial institutions. From Disruption to Integration Circle, the issuer of USDC, has long positioned itself as the “compliant” stablecoin: fully reserved, dollar-backed, regulated in the U.S.

Stablecoins

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Singapore-based digital payment infrastructure provider and stablecoin issuer, StraitsX , is teaming up with Standard Chartered to enhance the reserve management of its stablecoins.

Stablecoins

The Payments Association

APRIL 7, 2025

The industry must focus on technological investments, enhancing security, and addressing regulatory and interoperability challenges to stay competitive. Furthermore, the survey highlights the key challenges faced by the industry, such as cyber-security threats and the need for interoperability between different payment systems.

Financial Crimes

Fintech News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The ninth edition of the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) wrapped up on 8th November, concluding a dynamic week-long of celebration of fintech that brought together tens of thousands of participants from around the world. However, challenges remain, particularly regarding interoperability.

FinTech

Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

Stablecoins can settle in seconds, smart contracts can execute “if-this-then-that” logic without humans in the loop and tokenised assets can move 24/7 across jurisdictions. No, it won’t replace every system but it is rapidly becoming the preferred foundation for anything that needs to be fast, transparent and interoperable.

Stablecoins

Fintech Finance

MAY 2, 2025

Rain , a global card issuing platform built for stablecoins, is helping usher in a new era of onchain finance through its work with Visa. Rain announced it has joined Visa’s pilot program for stablecoin settlement. Rain is programmatically leveraging stablecoins enabling network settlement 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Credit Cards

Finextra

JUNE 24, 2025

These solutions are already widely adopted and focus on enabling technical interoperability between existing mobile wallets, offering fast and integrated payment experiences within their local banking ecosystems. Wero, in contrast, offers a unified architecture, designed for full interoperability and scale across Europe.

Agreements

The Paypers

JUNE 17, 2025

The agreement brings together OpenPayd’s API-based payment and banking services with Circle’s infrastructure for USDC, a dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by regulated affiliates of Circle. They indicated that the collaboration aims to further expand the use of stablecoins like USDC in practical financial applications.

Stablecoins

The Payments Association

JANUARY 13, 2025

Most of these centre on how firms handle digital assets, particularly stablecoins, as well as the operational and legal adjustment needed to navigate the changing landscape. Stablecoins, as a subset of digital assets, have been a focal point of both the Bill and the FCAs regulatory discussions.

Legal

Finextra

JULY 31, 2025

Home News Crypto Visa adds settlement support for more stablecoins Editorial This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Stablecoin adoption is exploding, with $27 trillion in total transaction volume globally across 1.25

Stablecoins

Finovate

JULY 2, 2025

At this point, if you’ve been working in the financial services industry since January, you’ve likely heard of stablecoins, and you may have heard of tokenized deposits. Here’s a brief overview of where stablecoins and tokenized deposits intersect, where they are different, and where they may be most useful.

Stablecoins

The Payments Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

Will Marwick CEO, IFX Payments The Payments Report 2024 highlights the growing impact of digital currencies, particularly stablecoins, as transformative payment solutions. The report notes how stablecoins, supported by regulatory developments, are driving advancements in digital commerce and cross-border transactions.

Payments Trends

Fintech News

MAY 11, 2025

These companies span every segment of the market, from long-established remittances players and banks to neobanks, business-to-business (B2B) platforms, stablecoin providers and regional specialists, and are powering global trade. They illustrate the regions increasing strategic importance in the cross-border payments landscape.

Cross-Border Payments

Finextra

AUGUST 7, 2025

Lack of interoperability across borders creates bottlenecks This lack of connectivity causes delays, compliance risks, and limited access. Adopt interoperable systems that speak a global language You must choose a solution that supports ISO 20022 and connects to national clearing systems.

Payment APIs and Integration

Finextra

AUGUST 4, 2025

Instead, it has chosen to empower the private sector to lead the development of stablecoins backed by the dollar—cemented through the recent passage of the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts. By enabling the proliferation of dollar-backed stablecoins in digital wallets, cross-border payment systems, and institutional markets, the U.S.

Stablecoins

Fintech Review

MAY 4, 2025

The Ultimate Guide for Founders, CFOs, and Finance Teams Choosing the right fintech stack can make or break a company’s financial operations. Whether you are a B2B founder building a global marketplace, a CFO steering a SaaS scale-up, or a finance team tasked with managing complex payments, finding the best fintech tools is critical.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Payments Association

MARCH 17, 2025

A well-calibrated regulatory framework can foster fintech growth, attract investment, and maintain the UKs global competitiveness without exposing the market to excessive risk. Investment in UK fintech has dropped sharply, from over 14 billion in 2022 to just 3.6 Why is it important? What’s next? The stakes are high.

Regulations

The Fintech Times

APRIL 23, 2025

Using stablecoins to settle complicated crypto payments, Paydify , the universal gateway for crypto payments, has launched a new service which will enable businesses to accept crypto payments from any wallet or blockchain network. Merchants face technical complexity, conversion risk, and settlement delays.

Stablecoins

Finextra

JULY 24, 2025

Most importantly, your fellow fintechs are moving fast. So, you must choose a provider who offers speed, affordability, interoperability, and transparency. Prioritize seamless integration and interoperability You need systems that talk to each other. And you need to move faster, too. That’s what your customers expect.

Digital Payments

Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It will also help commercial banks manage their own tokenised deposit and stablecoin life cycle and integrate into the central bank digital currency testing environment. Digital currency systems could prove to be key in improving financial inclusion and opening up new opportunities to large underbanked communities in many African countries.

Payment Networks

The Fintech Times

JULY 16, 2025

Therefore, this July, we explore how the fintech industry can further increase financial inclusion in developing markets, identify regional trends and remove barriers to digital services. Fintech companies are making a major contribution to the evolution of digital banking. billion in 2024 to 5.8

Underserved

Fintech Finance

JUNE 23, 2025

The two organisations will work together to host elements of Paycode’s digital payment infrastructure on the Algorand blockchain, with a focus on supporting transparent disbursement of aid, integrating stablecoin-based settlement mechanisms, and building resilient, offline-first financial tools.

Financial Inclusion

Finextra

JUNE 2, 2025

Location Joburg Followers 5 Opinions 22 Follow Unfollow Open Banking has moved from regulatory idea to industry reality, driving transformation by enabling secure, permissioned data sharing between financial institutions and third-party fintechs. The composability we’ll discuss shortly is one outcome of this interoperability.

Finance

The Payments Association

MAY 3, 2025

Among these, the integration of blockchain and stablecoins in cross-border payments and treasury management emerged as a central theme. Now, digitally native businesses are leveraging blockchain and stablecoins not to speculate, but to optimise cost and speed in cross-border transactions.

Payment APIs and Integration

Finextra

JUNE 26, 2025

Whether you’re a bank or a fintech company offering e-wallet services, you must meet PCI DSS standards. Focus on security, interoperability, and transparency A powerful solution ensures your customers can send money anytime, anywhere, and in any way they want. Yes, trust is everything. You know this already.

PCI DSS

Finovate

MARCH 7, 2025

As a proliferation of payment options promises to streamline banking and commerce, regulators, fintechs, and financial services companies are looking for ways to make sure that the challenges to these new payment optionsfrom technical complexity to new forms of fraud and financial crimeare met. Chilean fintech Banca.me

Payments

Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

The popularity of stablecoins is also reaching new heights. The transfer volume of stablecoins hit highs of $717.1 They will need to co-exist with existing clearing and settlement processes and infrastructures, and this means interoperability is crucial. tokenised deposits and stablecoins) or non-banks (aka. stablecoins).

Digital Currency