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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O chefe do BIS, Pablo Hernández de Cos, disse que as stablecoins não têm credibilidade para pagamentos em escala, enquanto um novo estudo do FSI destaca diferenças acentuadas nas regras para emissores.
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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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The Project Agorá prototype demonstrates how tokenisation and programmable technologies can address long-standing inefficiencies in wholesale cross-border payments at scale, while preserving the safety and integrity of settlement in central bank reserves.
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Visa has signed a strategic partnership with Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit, to explore stablecoin payments, global remittances and AI driven commerce. The deal marks Visa’s second Korean partnership this week, following an arrangement with Shinhan Financial. While Shinhan is Korea’s second largest financial group, Hana Financial, the third largest, […] The post Visa signs 2nd Korean stablecoin deal this week, with Hana-backed Dunamu appeared first on Ledger Insights - blockchain for enterprise .
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UOB and HSBC have completed live cross-border Hong Kong dollar transactions using tokenised deposits on Swift’s ledger. The transactions make UOB the first Singapore-headquartered bank to conduct live transactions on the blockchain-based ledger. Swift announced in July 2026 that the ledger was ready for initial use, with 17 banks across six continents preparing to pilot [...] The post UOB Is First Singapore Bank to Complete Live Tokenised Deposits With HSBC on Swift appeared first on Fintech Singapore .
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Visa Joins MAS-Led BLOOM Initiative to Connect Traditional Payments and Stablecoin Networks. Reported by The Malaysian Reserve, fintechnews.sg and 5 more.
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