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

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

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 23, 2025

. “For instance, in Mexico, were working with local fintechs and other organisations including The Peoples Clearinghouse and The Mexican Association of Credit Unions of the Social Sector (AMUCSS) on an initiative that will introduce an interoperable, real-time payment pathway between the US and 140 rural community banks.

FinTech

The Payments Association

MAY 3, 2025

Participants tackled five central themes: underleveraged innovation, the operationalisation of AI, regulatory challenges, the evolution of embedded finance, and strategic risk planning for 2025 and beyond. Among these, the integration of blockchain and stablecoins in cross-border payments and treasury management emerged as a central theme.

Payment APIs and Integration

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. DBS Bank is also a participating bank in PayNow, Singapores consumer real-time payments service.

Cross-Border Payments

Finovate

MAY 22, 2025

Stablecoin issuer and infrastructure company Circle unveiled this week that the Circle Payments Network (CPN) mainnet is now live. With CPN, Circle is hoping to disrupt the $190 trillion cross-border market and bring stablecoins mainstream for cross-border payments. “We are just getting started. .

Payment Networks

The Payments Association

MARCH 17, 2025

Amid rising fraud, emerging technologies like embedded finance, AI, and stablecoins, and intensifying global competition, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) faces mounting pressure to recalibrate its approach to regulationor risk holding back the very sector it aims to protect.

Regulations

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

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 2, 2025

Where open banking and open finance still rely on intemediaries to participate in data-sharing ecosystems, DeFi seeks to remove as many friction points as possible and replace them with code. Developers globally are composing new financial products at a frenetic pace, precisely because the protocols are open and interoperable.

Finance

The Fintech Times

JULY 16, 2025

Anyone participating in an economy needs financial services, no matter how simple. billion by 2029, there is still a critical issue regarding interoperability, with many mobile wallets still not being fully connected to banks, global networks or each other. Emerging technologies like stablecoins offer one pathway forward.

Underserved

Finovate

MARCH 7, 2025

Its fair to say that traditional financial systems left many people and communities underserved, but LPMsfrom mobile wallets in Africa to RTP schemes like UPI in Indiabridge this gap, and theyre empowering billions of consumers to participate in the digital economy. At Boku, we want to be at the heart of this transformation.

Payments

The Payments Association

JULY 18, 2025

It offers practical, high-level analysis of what’s live, what’s coming into force, and what’s under active consultation, covering fraud liability, stablecoin oversight, instant payments, digital operational resilience, and future developments such as the digital pound and digital euro. Firms should act swiftly to meet the new standards.

Regulations

Finextra

JUNE 5, 2025

The specific form of the wallet is less important than the ability to participate in trusted digital interactions. Ensuring public sector participation will accelerate adoption and interoperability across industries. Interoperability is crucial. Additional technical mandates could stifle innovation.

Credential

Finextra

JULY 7, 2025

In many ways, this setup is akin to stablecoins (where a company holds USD in a bank and issues tokens like USDC or USDT). However, robust liquidity will require big institutional participation too, and many institutions will wait for clearer regulations before diving in. This can lead to fragmentation.

Blockchain

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Ensuring this is possible on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), Ripple , the crypto solutions provider, has partnered with Axelar Foundation , the nonprofit decentralised interoperability network. The partnership with Axelar Foundation propels interoperability into the broader blockchain realm.

Interoperability

Fintech News

JUNE 19, 2024

Stablecoins have been rising in conversation within the financial ecosystem of Singapore. As the name implies, stablecoins are digital assets designed to maintain a stable value relative to a reference asset, such as the US Dollar or gold.

Stablecoins

Fintech News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The growing adoption of stablecoins across Asia marks a significant shift in the regions financial landscape. dollar-pegged stablecoins like USDT and USDC primarily dominate the cryptocurrency topography. Tether (CNHt) Tether CNHt is a stablecoin that is pegged to the offshore Chinese Yuan (CNY). Traditionally, U.S.

Stablecoins

Fintech Finance

MAY 29, 2025

Conduit , a leading cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins, announced today it closed a $36 million Series A funding round. Conduit’s platform seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional banking and stablecoin technology, offering unparalleled speed, affordability, transparency and reliability.”

Cross-Border Payments

The Fintech Times

MAY 12, 2025

While not a stablecoin in its current distributed ledger form, the Lewes Pound was, nevertheless, similar in many aspects including being pegged to a major currency. Stablecoins have not. Will the rug be pulled from under stablecoins by incumbent instant payment schemes? At least, not yet. And why wouldnt they?

Interoperability

Fintech News

MAY 27, 2024

CBDC for cross-border payments, programmable money, and DeFi Kazakhstan’s Digital Tenge project is pursuing several ambitious goals: intensifying cross-border trade, implementing innovative social and anti-corruption initiatives, and integrating digital assets issued by decentralised finance (DeFi) participants and those issued by the government.

CBDC

Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Commercial bank participants, through their own instances of UDPN Business Nodes, can actively engage in various activities, such as CBDC issuance (for issuing banks), wallet creation, linking wallets to bank accounts and KYC systems, fiat-CBDC exchange, AML/CFT compliance, and initiation of CBDC transfers, swaps, and settlement.

CBDC

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

2023 marked a pivotal year in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region’s approach to crypto regulation, influenced significantly by the preceding implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange and the collapse of of Terra, the algorithmic stablecoin created by Korean entrepreneur Do Kwon.

APACS

Fintech Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Web3 Foundation , in partnership with Scytale Digital , has led the seed funding round for Hyperbridge , a groundbreaking protocol poised to transform blockchain interoperability. Unlike existing point-to-point bridge models, Hyperbridge introduces a hub model that scales verifiable interoperability across all chains.

Interoperability

Fintech Review

JULY 10, 2024

By leveraging cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, DeFi circumvents barriers such as geographic limitations and bureaucratic hurdles, thereby empowering users to actively participate in global financial markets. Interoperability with traditional financial systems presents another significant hurdle.

Finance

Fintech News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Developments include cross-border quick response (QR) payment linkages, connectivity between real-time national payment schemes, and the ongoing Singapore Response Code Scheme (SGQR+) project focusing on furthering QR code payment interoperability.

FinTech

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 Finance

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Manifesto describes the 66 policies recommended by the 216 payments professionals who participate in The Payments Association’s stakeholder working groups. Include strategic change programmes aligned with key priorities, including independent oversight, regulatory effectiveness, innovation, and risk management.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

AUGUST 21, 2024

” To deliver on this promise, the Skyfire network features: Open, Global Payments Protocol: Open and global interoperability for AI, providing access to LLM’s, datasets, and API services without the need for subscriptions, credit cards, or onboarding. All AI transactions are completed instantly. “AI

AI

The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The VTAP solution is available on the Visa Developer Platform for participating financial institution partners, to create and experiment with their own fiat-backed tokens in a VTAP sandbox. This is available in a test environment with plans to support live programmes in 2025 and when participating banks are ready to launch with end customers.

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Building on its success in 2023, which attracted over 66,000 participants from 150 countries, SFF 2024 will feature a distinguished lineup of global central bankers, regulators, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, and influencers.

FinTech

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

For stablecoins, concept is edging closer to reality, especially for digital dollars – with a dose of regulatory clarity. To that end, as Jeremy Allaire , CEO of Circle , told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, a number of trends are converging to bring stablecoins into the mainstream of commercial and consumer payments.

Stablecoins

CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

Basis is building a “stablecoin” that is intended to be less volatile than other cryptocurrencies. Its $12M Series A at the end of March also saw participation from Andreessen. The firm participated in multiple rounds to Earn (fka 21), which was first a bitcoin mining company, and popular exchange Coinbase.

Blockchain

Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

De Meijer Owner and Economist MIFSA Location Maarrssen Followers 8 Opinions 157 Follow Unfollow Stablecoins are attracting considerable attention by traditional financial institutions. Regulatory shifts are paving the way for banks to engage with stablecoins. What are stablecoins? How stablecoins work?

Stablecoins

The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2025

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled new proposals for issuing stablecoins, which aim to support innovation in the UK cryptoasset sector and help UK cryptofirms compete internationally. Just over a quarter (27 per cent) of cryptoasset users who responded to this survey had bought stablecoins.

Stablecoins

Fintech Finance

APRIL 23, 2025

Paydify , a blockchain-based payment gateway, participated in a panel discussion at Money20/20 alongside representatives from Circle and Alea Research, addressing the challenges and opportunities shaping the next phase of digital payments.

Blockchain

The Payments Association

APRIL 14, 2025

Immediate focus areas include fraud prevention, ISO 20022 readiness, and stablecoin regulationbut longer-term success depends on active engagement with consultations, operational resilience, and global alignment. Active participation in the consultation process will be key to anticipating the impact and shaping future compliance strategies.

Regulations