Digital assets, stablecoins, tokenisation, blockchains and the decentralised applications built on them.
Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, concluded last Wednesday Oct 21, at The Venetian in Las Vegas, bringing together ~11,000 attendees from 85+ countries, 3,000+ companies, 450 sponsors and over 600 speakers from across the global financial ecosystem. Against a backdrop of rapid technological change and evolving regulation this year’s show explored how the forces…
Arf is bringing RLUSD-powered settlement liquidity to licensed cross-border payment companies on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). Arf helped pioneer PayFi (payment finance) and has scaled to around $10 billion annually in global settlement volumes. As XRPL’s native lending infrastructure comes online, it will become part of that settlement liquidity. Cross-border payments move trillions of dollars…
At Money20/20 USA, Mastercard announced Stablecoin Security, a new risk intelligence solution, with Borderless.xyz and Keyrails as initial partners. As stablecoins play a growing role in cross-border and business-to-business payments, financial institutions need a clearer view of risk across increasingly complex payment flows. The solution builds on Mastercard’s existing capabilities and helps financial institutions identify…
The digital gold market, worth US$45–55bn today, could unlock up to US$700bn in latent demand, according to new research from the World Gold Council and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report points to substantial untapped appetite among retail investors, with nearly nine in ten surveyed saying they would consider digital gold under the right conditions….
Mesh, the leading crypto payments network, today announced a strategic partnership with Visa to make crypto and stablecoin balances spendable across Visa’s global acceptance network. The first-of-its-kind collaboration combines Visa’s global acceptance network with Mesh’s orchestration infrastructure, enabling consumers to pay in-store and online directly from the balances they already hold in their wallet apps….
Noah, the stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, has announced that it has received regulatory approval to make stablecoin transfers across the EU following the award of both a MiCA CASP and a PSD2 payment institution (PI) licence. The new licences make Noah one of the most regulatory-compliant stablecoin payment networks in the world, enabling customers to…
Marqeta, Inc. (NASDAQ: MQ), the modern card issuing platform, today announced a collaboration with Coinbase, the leading regulated cryptocurrency exchange, to bring stablecoin-backed cards to both crypto-native and non-crypto firms. Leveraging Coinbase’s crypto infrastructure, Marqeta will enable businesses to offer a payment card solution that allows users to tap into the benefits of stablecoins by…
Noah, the stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, has closed its seed funding round at $38 million following the raise of an additional $16 million from existing and new investors. The raise follows strong growth that has seen revenues surge by 538% during year-to-date 2026 compared to the same period 2025, with recurring monthly growth of 31%. Noah has also signed over 150…
