The Bank of England has outlined a detailed regulatory roadmap for sterling stablecoins, including a 2026 timeline for final rules and joint oversight with the FCA.
With dollar stablecoins accounting for nearly all global liquidity, Europe accelerates euro-token initiatives to safeguard monetary sovereignty ahead of a delayed digital euro.
Stablecoins now exceed USD 300 billion in value and CBDC projects are advancing worldwide, raising questions about how the two digital-money systems will coexist.
As of late 2025, the U.S. has effectively banned a retail central-bank digital currency while accelerating research on wholesale payment systems and federally regulated stablecoins.
Revolut users have processed more than $690 million over Polygon, as the neobank adds stablecoin transfers, POL trading and staking, and fast cross-border payments.
U.S. Representative Brandon Gill has disclosed up to $2.6 million in Bitcoin and ETF holdings, as his vocal backing of White House crypto policies raises fresh conflict-of-interest questions.
The 18 November Cloudflare outage disrupted digital banks, crypto exchanges and payment apps worldwide, raising urgent questions about resilience and vendor risk across fintech.
Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson says expectations of a positive “Trump effect” on crypto were misguided, as policy shifts and market optimism intensified the sector’s downturn.
A new Romanian stress-testing framework suggests that a carefully capped retail CBDC, including a future digital euro, need not trigger bank runs or credit crunches in dual-currency economies.
The Trump Organization and Dar Global announced a luxury Maldives resort planned for 2028 that aims to be the first hotel development financed via tokenisation, opening new avenues for real-estate investment.