On Thursday, 11 June, digital payments network Visa revealed its new initiatives across AI-driven commerce, tokenised deposits, and stablecoins. The announcement, made during the Visa Payments Forum 2026 in San… read more →
Seven central banks and over 40 commercial banks have participated in a successful prototype of Project Agorá, an initiative to test the feasibility of a multi-currency shared programmable platform. A… read more →
Tether, the stablecoin giant, has led a recent $14 million Series A funding round for belo, the Argentine cryptocurrency and fintech platform looking to expand digital wallets and crypto rails… read more →
Bhutan, a landlocked Himalayan kingdom of just over 800,000 people, is also the world’s first carbon-negative country, with one of the most ambitious crypto-mining extravaganzas ever seen. In 2023, Bhutan’s… read more →
For more than a decade, trade digitalisation has been positioned as inevitable, given the benefits it promises: smoother processes, improved transparency, and better access to finance. Platforms have multiplied, application… read more →
Structural pressures on global trade continue to intensify in 2026. Tariff uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, cybersecurity threats, liquidity shifts, and rapid digitalisation are reshaping the trade finance landscape. Against this backdrop,… read more →
Today’s financial system is undergoing one of the most profound transformations in decades. What were once considered long-term trends are now active forces reshaping how payments, trade, data, and value… read more →
Working capital finance needs to grow more agile. And with other processes in trade benefiting from the blockchain, enterprise resourcing planning (ERP) integration, and artificial intelligence (AI) automation, why should… read more →
Chinese regulators have banned the issuance of unapproved Chinese yuan-pegged stablecoins overseas and of tokenised risk-weighted assets (RWAs), applying to both domestic and foreign issuers. In a joint statement released… read more →
On Monday, 19 January, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced its development of a tokenised securities platform. While it still seeks regulatory approval, the platform would enable the trading… read more →
