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Money & Markets
The conference agenda itself is the evidence: 'Your Stablecoin Pilot Will Be Ready for Production After This Session' is not a question mark. It is a statement of fact.
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Money & Markets
A bipartisan coalition argues the bill's 'qualified transaction' loophole would give the SEC indirect preemption authority, dismantling the state-level enforcement that has brought 330-plus anti-fraud actions since 2017.
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Money & Markets
The card processor layer is entering stablecoin settlement, giving Marqeta's enterprise customers stablecoin-backed card capability without building crypto infrastructure.
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Money & Markets
The first quantitative evidence of deposit rate leverage over stablecoin demand creates a structural ceiling that the infrastructure buildout cannot outrun.
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Money & Markets
Allium's first comprehensive payment-volume report reveals that stablecoins are growing 7x faster than fiat cross-border rails, with B2B driving the surge. The supply infrastructure is finally catching up.
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Money & Markets
The $1.8B acquisition was about infrastructure, not branding. Now Mastercard is racing Visa to own stablecoin settlement before the GENIUS Act deadline.
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Money & Markets
The world's largest payment network has moved stablecoin prefunding from pilot to production via Inyo Global, making USDC a live funding source for payouts across 180-plus countries.
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Money & Markets
The first global financial regulator closes the loop on agentic structure. While Payward buys the perimeter, the FSB is defining what happens inside it.
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Money & Markets
Payward's Saldo Bank acquisition makes it the first crypto-native firm to own a regulated European bank. In Europe the regulatory perimeter is for sale; in America it is still a queue.
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Money & Markets
A PR firm studied 2,893 crypto press releases and found 62% came from high-risk or scam projects. The numbers are self-reported. The mechanism they describe is not.
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