Japan’s central bank says a sandbox is underway to examine settlement using current account deposits, while warning of smart ...

The Bank of Japan is testing blockchain technology for settlements that use tokenized central bank reserves. The Bank of ...

The Bank of Japan will conduct experiments for using blockchain ‌technology to settle deposits that financial institutions ...

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Travis Hill. Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust failed Friday, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., marking the first bank failure of 2026. Processing ...

The Senate’s CLARITY Act would explicitly classify XRP as a non-security, removing years of legal uncertainty that kept institutional investors on the sidelines. The CLARITY Act stalled on January 15 ...

GABORONE, January 26, 2026 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the Botswana Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience (HEPRR) Project, which will support the ...

As lawmakers work to unify crypto and traditional finance under one rulebook, U.S. banks are pressing Congress to narrow how digital dollars earn returns and how financial data gets shared. The ...

Tennessee now has about $58 billion in road construction projects waiting to be funded, and no longterm strategy to fund them, state transportation officials say. Tennessee is one of the few states ...

The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s opposition or the frustrated hopes of young people hungry for more personal ...

Stablecoins that offer interest-bearing rewards may increasingly resemble bank deposits. But unlike traditional deposits, they lack the regulatory safeguards that undergird the banking system. That ...

Stablecoin issuers and distributors offering customers access to stablecoin yield may essentially be creating their own parallel ecosystem to bank operations, global bank JPMorgan's chief financial ...