Qivalis emerges as Europe’s leading EUR stablecoin contender as 25 more financial institutions, including ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Intesa Sanpaolo and Rabobank, join its consortium..

SEC moves toward enabling tokenized equities trading...

Standard Chartered moves to take full control of Zodia Custody and expands digital asset custody footprint...

The Bank of England is reassessing its proposed stablecoin framework after acknowledging earlier rules may have been too conservative, following sustained pressure from the digital asset industry...

JPMorgan Asset Management to launch second tokenized MMF on Ethereum...

JPMorgan Kinexys platform has processed $3 trillion worth of tokenized repo transactions since launch six years ago according to Bloomberg...

Standard Chartered powers custody infrastructure for TP ICAP's Fusion Digital Assets to support institutional digital asset demand...

BlackRock plans to launch 2 more tokenized MMF as the addressable market, USD stablecoin market, expands to $317B.

JPMorgan enables cross-border fiat payout for Ripple via Mastercard and from Ondo Finance's tokenized money market fund...

Corpay signs J.P. Morgan and BVNK as its blockchain infrastructure providers as the fintech adds tokenized deposits and stablecoins to expand 24/7 payment capabilities...

Bullish agreed to buy Equiniti from Siris Capital in a $4.2 billion deal, as the crypto exchange seeks to expand in blockchain-based capital markets infrastructure...

State Street launches tokenized money market fund, SWEEP, on Solana with Galaxy Digital

Stablecoin yield compromise was¨reached in US Congress according to Coinbase. Guess who wins, loses, and takes collateral damage?

Computershare, the biggest US equities transfer agent, will enable US issuers-led tokenized stock issuance via tech integration with Securitize.

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) releases framework for fund tokenisation, signalling path towards FULLY ONCHAIN fund operating models. Key takeaways...

Tokenized funds will NOT reach trillions in AUM through product innovation alone. They require institutional-grade operating infrastructure behind them. State Street is now building the infrastructure layer to solve it.

Tokenized stock infrastructure just took a major leap forward as Broadridge and Ondo Finance team up to bring shareholder voting to tokenized equities

Standard Chartered, BlackRock and OKX launch joint collateral framework enabling tokenized MMF for institutional crypto trading.

J.P. Morgan: "Tokenization will impact not just ETFs, but the broader funds industry" More...

DTCC Chief Technology Officer, Dan Doney: "a trusted intermediary layer such as CSD is vital in a tokenized financial system"

Nasdaq, Boerse Stuttgart Group, Cashlink along with 30+ European market participants just called for urgent reform of the EU’s DLT Pilot Regime. Key points...

Aave, the biggest DeFi platform accounting for 25% of the $100B of value locked in DeFi, saw its TVL tumble from $25B to $20B as one of its lending product suffered a $290M hack last night.

Societe Generale-FORGE announced its collaboration with Consensys to expand global access to its USD CoinVertible stablecoin through integration with MetaMask, the world’s most popular Ethereum self-custodial Web3 wallet.

Clearstream, 360X (Deutsche Börse Group backed digital asset exchange venue), and Ondo Finance have announced a partnership to connect traditional financial markets with onchain infrastructure built on public, permissionless blockchains, bringing tokenized equities infrastructure to Europe.

Deutsche Borse has invested $200 million in Payward Inc., the parent of crypto trading platform Kraken, as the Frankfurt stock exchange operator moves to offer access to a wider array of securities over blockchain rails. The deal, which gives Deutsche Börse a 1.5% fully diluted stake in the company.

HSBC Global Payments Solutions (GPS), the global product line that provides payments, cash management, liquidity, and treasury infrastructure to institutional clients, has successfully completed a pilot simulating the issuance, transfer and atomic settlement of its Tokenised Deposit Service (TDS) on the Canton Network.

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:

HSBC plans to launch a Hong Kong dollar (HKD) denominated stablecoin in the second half of 2026 under the new licence. The HKD stablecoin by HSBC will be seamlessly integrated into two of Hong Kong’s most widely used digital platforms: PayMe and the HSBC HK Mobile Banking App (HSBC HK App).

Standard Chartered joint-venture receives HK stablecoin license

With a joint initiative, UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum Bank, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Zürcher Kantonalbank, BCV - Banque Cantonale Vaudoise and Swiss Stablecoin are joining forces to launch a Swiss bank led CHF stablecoin sandbox.

BNY and Robinhood land strategic roles in Trump Accounts. Here is what it means for digital assets.

"While Hong Kong slept, Leo Li was buying $2M tokenized Google exposure via Ondo Finance at 1am" - WSJ

Franklin Templeton, a major player in traditional mutual fund management and retail distribution, is acquiring a spin-off from CoinFund to launch Franklin Crypto.

Fed Governor signals pro-innovation but anti-regulatory arbitrage position on crypto

Mitsubishi Corporation is set to leverage blockchain-based tokenized deposits from JPMorgan to enable instant, cross-border fund transfers. Following successful pilot transactions using JPMorgan’s Blockchain Deposit Account, full-scale rollout is expected as early as fiscal 2026.

DZ BANK (issuer) and KfW (investor) completed a crypto security issuance under Germany’s eWpG, powered by a Smart Bond Contract and without a CSD.

Franklin Templeton partners with Ondo Finance to tokenize ETFs for 24/7 trading

NYSE and Securitize to bring issuer-led equities tokenization closer to production a partnership...

ECB Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone laid out the vision for a tokenzied future for the bloc in a recent speech titled Building the Rails for Europe’s Tokenised Financial Markets. Key takeaways:

BMO to launch tokenized deposit product with Google and CME

In a speech titled, Number Go Down and Other Schadenfreude, the SEC Chair lays out the forthcoming Innovation Exemption framework. Key points:

Stablecoins Are the Story. Trading Is the Money. Kalshi, one of the two main prediction markets, has reportedly raised $1B+ at a $22B valuation, doubling from $11B just months ago. Backed by Paradigm, Sequoia, a16z, ARK, and now Coatue.

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:

S&P Dow Jones Indices said it has licensed the S&P 500 index to Trade[XYZ], a crypto startup that has created some of the most popular perpetual futures contracts on Hyperliquid.

SEC & CFTC drops formal crypto taxonomy. Here is what it means.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a no-action letter to Phantom, allowing it to provide software that connects users to registered derivatives platforms without registering as a futures commission merchant. In effect, Phantom can act as a non-custodial access layer to regulated futures markets.

Mastercard is acquiring BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure startup, for up to $1.8 billion, stepping deeper into stablecoin-powered payments just months after BVNK’s ~$2B deal with Coinbase fell through.

HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc are set to become among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, giving two of the city’s note-issuing banks a central role in the government’s push to position itself as a global digital-asset hub

Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor at the Bank of England, signalled that U.K. regulators may reconsider their relatively strict limits on stablecoin holdings, following pushback from the digital asset industry.

Mastercard launches Crypto Partner Program with 85 digital asset firms as it moves to defend its position against stablecoins and Visa.