Two banks settled across a blockchain. Settlement is still where it always was.
On 19 August 2026, HSBC and Standard Chartered executed the first live cross-border transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger. Tokenised deposit obligations were…
On 19 August 2026, HSBC and Standard Chartered executed the first live cross-border transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger. Tokenised deposit obligations were…
On 9 October 2025, five years into the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-border Payments, the Financial Stability Board published its consolidated progress…
For two years the story was stablecoins versus banks. In mid-2026 the banks finally answered — and the answer was not a…
Last week a Tokyo-listed logistics company decided to pay roughly 2,300 of its subcontractors and truck drivers in a yen stablecoin. Not…
Every few months someone predicts that DeFi will “disrupt” Japanese banking, and every few months Japan does something quietly more interesting instead.…
Logistics and finance were never two problems - they're one problem seen from two desks. How an AI-native platform fuses forwarding and…
In every trade, the goods, the document of title, and the money move on separate tracks. The alliance we're forming with DeCurret…
DC JPY isn't a stablecoin - it's a tokenized bank deposit, and the distinction matters more than almost anyone outside banking realises.…
The headlines chase tokenization and yield. The most important development in trade payments is the opposite: deliberately boring, regulated, predictable money -…
Bolivia ran out of dollars. Here's how TAU Corporation kept settling dozens of cross-border auto-trade transactions with its Bolivian buyers using regulated…