Visa and Mastercard are stitching together the infrastructure for 24/7 stablecoin-funded corporate payments, connecting blockchain transfers, payment orchestration and fiat payouts. But who provides the liquidity that makes funds available in recipients' bank accounts, and who bears the financing cost? Using a $50 million cross-border treasury transaction, we examine the three critical layers of global payments, compare liquidity funding costs against transaction revenues and
Stablecoins can move £50 million across borders in seconds, but that doesn't guarantee usable liquidity in a corporate bank account. Our £50M Treasury Test examines how stablecoins, tokenized deposits, Mastercard Move, Swift and Fnality address the gap between 24/7 settlement and fiat availability, who bears the liquidity costs, and where the commercial value lies.
NYSE parent ICE and OKX are preparing to launch one of the first large-scale tests of the SEC’s third-party custodial tokenization model for U.S. equities. The structure could help determine which tokenization model scales public stocks onchain the fastest.
NYSE parent ICE and OKX are preparing to launch one of the first large-scale tests of the SEC’s third-party custodial tokenization model for U.S. equities. The structure could help determine which tokenization model scales public stocks onchain the fastest.
The SEC has recognised permissioned AMMs as potential securities-market infrastructure. Uniswap already has much of the technical architecture. The question now is whether it can turn that advantage into a regulated venue, institutional liquidity and value accrual.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issues landmark exemption allowing the trading of tokenized stocks. BUT there is a caveat and an unresolved question...
The SEC’s transfer agent proposal could bring blockchain into official securities ownership records. This Strategic Edge note examines what the reforms enable for tokenized securities and digital-asset transfer agents—and what remains unresolved around identity, ledger control, regulatory access and transfer finality...
The Staff of the Division of Trading and Markets of the SEC issues statement clarifying when digital interfaces (apps, front-ends, wallets) trigger broker-dealer registration. Key takeaways:
SEC has approved Nasdaq's request to settle Russel 1000, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 ETFs in tokenized forms. But this is NOT a disruptive leap toward on-chain markets. This is tokenization without disruption:
