Watch more: Monday Conversation With Tassat’s Glen Sussman Conversations about stablecoins have a way of turning into conversations about technology. Which chain, which standard, whose rail. When PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster sat down with Tassat CEO Glen Sussman for the “Monday Conversation” series, she put...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With FIS’ David Trecker Among the challenges confronting digital payments is deciding which forms of digital money belong inside the banking system, which belong alongside it, and how those pieces connect without creating new operational or regulatory blind spots....
Brazil’s securities regulator has established a working group to explore tokenized securities. This working group, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) announced Friday (July 17), will draft an experimental framework that examines the registration, custody, trading and settlement of tokenized securities using blockchain technology. “Tokenization represents a structural transformation...
The most important digital asset story this week was not the price of bitcoin, the launch of another cryptocurrency fund or even the continued expansion of stablecoins. It was the widening gap between the parts of crypto that traditional finance wants to preserve and the...
Explore more conversations like this From the Block. The blockchain industry has spent years promising to replace the filing cabinet to either make illiquid assets tradable or provide an immutable record in the event a natural disaster wipes out the paper record. Dubai may have...
Post-trade market infrastructure company DTCC began advancing tokenization from concept to live production Wednesday (July 15). In a series of live updates posted on its website, DTCC shared news of clients that began using live trading environments to demonstrate and transact tokenized assets. “Today marks...
Federal regulators are hearing arguments over how stocks should move to blockchain rails, CoinDesk reported Monday (July 13). One of the arguments comes from the Securities Transfer Association (STA), a trade group representing transfer agents and its members, including major Wall Street institutions, according to...
Ripple’s CEO says the blockchain company considered shuttering following an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit. In a talk at the University of Kansas School of Business, Brad Garlinghouse said he and co-founder Chris Larsen weighed winding down the company and distributing its XRP cryptocurrency...
Robinhood Markets has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain that the company said is purpose-built for real-world assets. Robinhood Chain is built using the Arbitrum Platform to institutional standards, is natively connected to Robinhood’s onchain users, and has deep integrations with Alchemy,...