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Money & Markets
The world's largest ERP platform now treats USDC and EURC as native payment types alongside ACH, EFT, and wire – positioning SAP Pay as the fifth institutional settlement rail.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Two asset managers have launched tokenized money-market funds specifically designed to satisfy GENIUS Act reserve requirements – and by January 18, 2027, every US stablecoin issuer must hold assets like them.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The stablecoin payments company filed for an OCC national trust bank charter just days before the community banking lobby sued to block the pathway – a collision between institutional momentum and legal challenge as the GENIUS Act deadline approaches.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Stripe, Google, Mastercard, and Visa have built the rails for agent commerce. The merchants are not ready.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
OKX's standalone Money app targets emerging markets with 10% APY on USDG stablecoin balances, completing a three-layer institutional-to-retail stack – but the yield source remains undisclosed.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Bank of North Dakota's Roughrider Coin pilot is the first state-bank-affiliated stablecoin entering the federal regulatory framework as it's being built. Partners include Fiserv, VersaBank, and First International Bank & Trust.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
$1.2 billion in stablecoin-linked card volume. Four production rails activated or expanded in the same 30-day window. The settlement plumbing is moving whether anyone notices or not.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
An open-source atomic settlement program with JPMorgan advisory input compresses the two-day settlement cycle into a single on-chain transaction — but privacy and production readiness remain the next hurdles.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Circle, Ripple, Standard Chartered, and QRT extend the ICE-led round at the same $25B valuation, aligning stablecoin infrastructure and institutional custody with the exchange's SEC filing to tokenize 63 NYSE-listed equities.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Ondo Finance's new Private Markets product tokenizes pre-IPO company shares as unsecured SPV obligations — a structural leap from collateralized ownership to issuer credit risk, offered exclusively to non-US persons under Regulation S.
◆ Nolan Pratt
