CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad has executed the first tokenized deposit settlement of tokenized sukuk in Malaysia, marking a significant operational shift for the world’s largest domestic sukuk primary market. The transaction involved RM1.38 billion, approximately $342 million, of a total RM1.68 billion issuance under the bank’s RM10 billion Senior Sukuk Wakalah Program. Twelve institutional investors […]
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At the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium this week, the theme was “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy.” It was the perfect stage for the Federal Reserve to address the rapid evolution of digital assets. Instead, the new Fed Chair, Kevin Warsh, delivered a 3,000-word keynote that functioned as a masterclass in strategic omission. […]
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Thirty-nine U.S. state banking associations have decided that if they cannot beat the crypto-native stablecoin market, they will simply build a parallel, permissioned version of it. On August 25, 2026, the group announced the BankChain Alliance, a network designed to bring tokenized deposits and smart payments into the regulated fold by 2027. This is not […]
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Coinbase has launched tokenized U.S. equities on the Base blockchain. The August 24 rollout includes 13 stocks — NVDAc, METAc, AAPLc, GOOGLc, AMZN, COIN, CRCL, INTC, MSFT, MSTR, SNDK, SPCX, and TSLA — each representing a direct claim on the underlying share, not a synthetic derivative. The product is live. The U.S. regulatory framework that […]
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The Billion-Dollar Bet on Agentic Settlement The race to build plumbing for the agent economy is increasingly defined by a tension between open standards and proprietary gardens. While many startups in this space lean on the speculative promise of future autonomous commerce, Fasset has secured a $1 billion valuation by anchoring its growth in a […]
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A new institutional credit fund backed by Ripple, Clearpool, and Cicada Partners is deploying RLUSD as a primary lending asset on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). By facilitating the direct lending of this stablecoin to fintech and payments firms, the initiative shifts RLUSD from its initial role as a payment-focused asset into the domain of institutional […]
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Visa is currently shopping for a new stablecoin settlement and over-the-counter (OTC) partner. While the move appears to be a routine vendor swap, it functions as a strategic decoupling. According to CoinDesk, which reviewed the request for proposal (RFP) issued on August 18, 2026, the payment giant is looking to fill a void left by […]
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The Two-Speed Regulatory Divergence in US Digital Assets On August 14, 2026, the SEC was scheduled to discuss its “innovation exemption” for tokenized securities under the “Reg Crypto” agenda. The meeting was canceled. The proposal – which would have given domestic crypto firms a conditional path to issue, custody, and trade tokenized equities, money-market funds, […]
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Treasury published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on August 17 to implement Section 3 of the GENIUS Act — the first concrete regulatory action from any agency since a seven-agency backlog caused a missed July 18 rulemaking deadline. By defining what it means to issue, offer, and sell payment stablecoins in the United States, the […]
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The agent payment stack has formally split into two layers. Below sits the protocol layer — x402, Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), and Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) — where individual stablecoin transactions execute on-chain. Above now sits the settlement infrastructure layer, where routing, signing, and compliance decisions happen before a single coin moves. OSL Group’s launch […]
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The Industry Builds Its Own Regulator Washington is currently occupied with the GENIUS Act, a framework that focuses on stablecoin issuers while leaving the mechanics of machine-initiated transactions largely untouched. As Congress stalls on the specifics of AI-driven finance, the private sector has begun to construct its own regulatory architecture. On August 4, 2026, the […]
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Wells Fargo announced a proprietary tokenized deposit platform on August 4, 2026, scheduled for a Fall 2026 launch for select corporate and commercial clients. The initial capability: USD-GBP cross-border payments that settle around the clock. But the standalone product is only half the story. The bank is simultaneously co-building a shared interbank network through The […]
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Visa has moved stablecoin integration beyond experimental pilots into production-grade infrastructure. As of August 5, 2026, the company is deploying stablecoin capabilities across Visa Direct, its real-time push payments platform, to reach more than 18 billion endpoints across eligible cards, accounts, and digital wallets in 195 countries and territories. This is a live, scalable deployment […]
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