The world moves fast, and money movement needs to keep up. That’s a large part of why stablecoins are gaining traction. In an era of compressed settlement cycles and globalized treasury operations, the appeal of borderless digital dollars is an obvious one. Stablecoins can offer...
Stablecoins have long promised a cleaner, faster financial system. What they have lacked is a convincing bridge to the world people and businesses already use. In the latest episode of the “From the Block” podcast with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster and Ryan Rugg, the global...
Fireblocks has debuted a feature that lets institutional customers lend stablecoins directly through its platform. The company’s Earn tool, announced Wednesday (April 15), allows users to supply capital to two decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, Morpho and Aave, while maintaining the same security and governance controls...
Visa is expanding its blockchain efforts by launching its validator node on the Tempo network. “The launch underscores Visa’s commitment to running critical blockchain operations in-house and strengthening the foundations of onchain payment innovation,” the company said in a Tuesday (April 14) news release. Visa’s move is part...
The “C” in “CFO” might as well have stood for “Constraints” for much of the finance function’s history. Nowhere has that been more true than in corporate treasury, where timing windows and workflow limitations have long dictated how finance leaders allocate capital, manage risk and...
HSBC has expanded its Tokenized Deposit Service (TDS) to the United States, saying this service provides real-time funds movement across jurisdictions in a regulatory-compliant environment. The expansion adds another key financial market to the service, as TDS is already available in Hong Kong, Singapore, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom, the...
Stablecoins were supposed to change payments. They haven’t. New Federal Reserve research shows the vast majority of stablecoins aren’t flowing through the real economy. They’re either sitting idle or circulating within crypto markets instead of being used to pay for goods and services. A Payments...
The era of legal ambiguity surrounding stablecoins officially appears to be ending. In the United States, federal banking agencies released implementation rules under the GENIUS Act, translating legislative intent into operational standards. At the same time, developments across Hong Kong, Switzerland and the private sector...
Blockchain development company Alchemy has debuted a tool that lets AI payment systems work together. AgentPay is designed to provide interoperability to agentic payment systems, company officials told CoinDesk Wednesday (April 8). “AI agents aren’t assistants anymore. They’re buyers,” Alchemy says on its website. “OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are shipping...