1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (479+ words) This includes a melding of the expertise of the two companies. BVNK sells technology that connects payment networks such as Swift, Sepa, ACH and Fedwire with stablecoin rails. "Blockchain payments are complex and there's a lot of nuances," Vander Leest…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (449+ words) Circle Internet Group is expanding its reach in the Asia-Pacific region with the acquisition of Singapore-based payments company Tazapay. The stablecoin issuer has agreed to buy Tazapay, a business-to-business, cross-border payments company, for $400 million in stock, the company said Tuesday....

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (684+ words) However, the true promise of tokenization isn't solely in creating new digital assets. It's making assets significantly more useful and delivering meaningful impact to an organization's P&L. This is the next test for the industry. Accelerating adoption leaves no room…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (916+ words) I grew up in a small town in Alabama. The people who helped me open my first bank account and gave me my first loan showed early on what a community bank means to the people it serves. It is…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (927+ words) Key insight: Banks are derisking across their balance sheets, with digital assets leading the way according to research from American Banker. What's at stake: Research suggests banks prefer regulatory clarity over deregulation. Forward look: While current policy changes are often…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (885+ words) Banks are ramping up work on tokenized deposits, a digital asset option that provides a theoretically less risky alternative to stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies. Nearly two-thirds of banks are offering or are in some stage of developing tokenized deposits for…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (919+ words) "We know there are going to be lots of networks out there, lots of options for banks to choose from," Headlee told American Banker. The BankChain Alliance will provide banks a network that is owned, designed and governed by banks…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (764+ words) Two Washington, D.C.-area community banks have arrived at fundamentally different viewpoints regarding the value of physical branches. For the $1.1 billion-asset Trustar Bankshares in Great Falls, Virginia, branches are an integral part of its traditional community-banking model. But for the Chevy…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (770+ words) With most compliance leaders reporting reduced or frozen compliance budgets and headcounts, CCOs and compliance are losing resources just as banking risk is getting infinitely more complex. Global regulatory fragmentation is only one of many strategic challenges facing CCOs and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (599+ words) Megadeals continue to be the dominant theme in fintech private equity funding this year, even as exits have slowed overall. The total number of global fintech deals in the second quarter of 2026 fell 25% quarter over quarter and 36% year over year,…...