Visa stablecoin monetization spans card network fees, payment orchestration and issuance infrastructure. With settlement surpassing a $25 billion annualized run rate, we examine where Visa already earns revenue, where new fee pools could emerge, and what remains undisclosed.
How crypto vaults are evolving from DeFi lending pools into capital allocation and securities financing infrastructure—and what institutions need next.
The Clearing House and Quant are bringing tokenized-deposit interoperability to America's $2 trillion-a-day wholesale payment infrastructure. We examine CHIPS's 26:1 liquidity efficiency, Swift's global connectivity advantage and why Fnality's common settlement asset could reshape institutional payments, securities settlement and collateral mobility.
Deutsche Bank plans to launch digital asset custody for institutional clients - first step toward offering a vertically integrated, full-service tokenized finance platform...
UniCredit’s reported custody and brokerage plans raise a bigger question: where can banks win in digital assets? Its wealth businesses in Italy, Germany and Austria could provide a powerful distribution advantage...
Nasdaq’s $100M investment in Payward brings traditional market infrastructure closer to crypto distribution. As tokenized equities grow, the deal raises a defining question: will value accrue to the exchanges that list stocks or the platforms that own the investor relationship?
BNP Paribas and HSBC have facilitated a cross-border, cross-currency tokenized-deposit transaction for Siemens using Swift’s shared ledger. The transaction reveals how a hub-of-hubs model could connect banks’ proprietary tokenized-deposit systems without requiring corporates to adopt new treasury infrastructure...
Tokenized stocks are going mainstream as Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, partners with Alpaca, one of the sector’s most important infrastructure providers.
Revolut and Standard Chartered launched stablecoin initiatives days apart—but their commercial models could not be more different. This analysis compares Revolut’s likely low-margin customer-acquisition playbook with Standard Chartered’s institutional infrastructure strategy.
Standard Chartered issues $200M digital bond on Euroclear’s D-FMI, showing how capital-markets tokenization can scale by combining DLT-native primary issuance with existing settlement, liquidity and investor infrastructure...
Project Agora just demonstrated digital money interoperability by completing real value transactions using tokenized commercial bank deposits and central bank reserves on shared infrastructure...
