OpenPayd, a London payments firm with $73 million of revenue, expects its Titan merger to close by year-end and fund a US launch by April 2027. With 43 state licenses already bought, the listing mainly supplies cash and shares for the acquisitions its CEO says come next.
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Circle told the European Commission that only 3 of the world's top 25 stablecoins are authorized under MiCA, in its response to the law's review. Circle issues two of the three, and it ties the gap to bank-deposit and concentration rules it wants loosened.
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Crypto's 635-page Clarity Act stalled in the Senate with no realistic path back before year-end, Cato's Ryan Chan-Wei wrote. He blames an ethics dispute over conflicts at the highest levels of government, and that dispute will meet whatever bill the next Congress writes.
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, head of the agency's Crypto Task Force, resigns Oct. 2, leaving Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda as its only two commissioners. Neither her seat nor Caroline Crenshaw's has a nominee, so crypto policy now rests on two Republican votes.
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Europe's central banks asked Brussels to extend MiCA's stablecoin interest ban to lending and staking, a move a campaign says 50,000-plus citizens opposed. A ban that reaches borrower-paid returns could leave euro-regulated tokens unable to match perks offered by dollar stablecoins.
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Citigroup lifted its 12-month Bitcoin target to $113,000 from $82,000 on a forecast of $5 billion in crypto inflows over the next year. A single month like June, when $4.51 billion left spot Bitcoin ETFs, would nearly cancel that forecast.
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Stand With Crypto EU got more than 50,000 Europeans to write to the Commission's MiCA review asking that stablecoins be allowed to pay holders rewards. Europe's central banks used the same review to ask that the ban also cover lending, borrowing and staking yield, so the rule could end up wider as easily as looser.
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Stablecoin issuers have added about $200 billion of Treasuries in five years, roughly 0.05% of the IIF's $365 trillion global debt tally. The bid matters in a US bill market that foreign buyers are leaving, and even the projected $400 billion for 2030 would be about 0.1% of world debt.
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the Senate's Sept. 15 failure to advance the Clarity Act helped crypto, citing Bitcoin's roughly 8% gain since the vote. Half of his case is the status quo outliving the bill, and the rest is SEC relief that future regulators can change.
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Korea will open its token securities market in February while the stablecoin bill needed for on-chain settlement still has no committee hearing date. Until stablecoins are linked to the securities ledger, overseas buyers must convert currency and remit through banks to buy Korean tokens.
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Blockchain Association founder Kristin Smith returns as interim CEO on October 17, days after the CLARITY Act failed a 49-50 Senate cloture vote. For investors waiting on a market-structure law, the Senate count matters more to the timetable than the change at the top.
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Fed proposals issued Sept. 24 would set stablecoin rules under the already-enacted GENIUS Act, nine days after the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate. Clarity's unresolved jurisdiction questions still lack a statute, and the SEC's crypto task force leader, Hester Peirce, leaves Oct. 2.
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Citi is adding Coinbase-run stablecoin checkout to its merchant services, and one report says the bank will hold digital dollars that earn 3.75%. Whether that reward reaches Citi's customers decides if a major bank has joined the side of the yield fight its industry opposes.
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Three federal agencies moved on crypto rules within 48 hours of the Senate's 49-50 vote that stalled the Clarity Act. Only the stablecoin rules sit on a statute, so businesses using the SEC and CFTC relief hold permissions a later administration can withdraw.
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Tokenized Treasury and money-market funds rose from $2.99 to $11.39 per $100 of stablecoins in two years, according to Crypto Briefing. Whether three big issuers own most of that growth depends on which estimate of the category's size is right.
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Kristin Smith becomes the Blockchain Association's interim CEO on October 17 and keeps her job as president of the Solana Policy Institute. The industry-wide group will share its chief executive with one chain's lobby while the Clarity Act sits stalled in the Senate.
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Senators killed crypto's Clarity Act on September 15 when a procedural vote fell short of the 60 votes it needed. Any product that rests only on current agency posture now needs a costed fallback in next year's compliance budget.
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Federal Reserve proposals charge stablecoin issuers 2% capital on their first $20 billion, falling to 1% above $50 billion. Comments over the next 60 days are the main chance to contest a schedule built for operational losses before rules take effect in January 2027.
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World Liberty Trust Company won preliminary conditional approval for a national trust charter. Its business plan takes the issuing and custody role for USD1 away from BitGo.
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Regulation Crypto Assets borrows the JOBS Act structure for digital assets and preempts state registration, including on secondary trades. The preemption is the part that changes deal papering.
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Earlier coverage
- 23 of 40 New Bank Charter Applications Now Involve Digital Assets, OCC Says
Invest · August 19, 2026 · 4 publishers
- Twenty-one banks commit to a 2027 dollar stablecoin before naming a chain or a custodian
Invest · September 2, 2026 · 5 publishers
- U.S. Bank backs four routes to client payments after USBDC cross-border test
Invest · September 11, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Senate Republicans rewrite the CLARITY Act to move seven Democrats before Tuesday's vote
Leadership · September 14, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Fed draft limits its stablecoin application route to insured state member banks
Invest · September 25, 2026 · 1 publisher
- The ECB asks Brussels to delete MiCA's 60% bank-deposit floor for stablecoin reserves
Invest · September 22, 2026 · 3 publishers
- Washington weighs joint stablecoin ventures abroad to add buyers for Treasury bills
Invest · September 24, 2026 · 4 publishers
- Fed's stablecoin proposal gives a capital-short issuer one quarter before it must liquidate
Leadership · September 24, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Twenty-one banks plan to launch a dollar stablecoin before Treasury finishes the rules
Invest · September 23, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Six Canadian banks build joint tokenized deposit rail 12 days after OSFI settled its legal status
Invest · September 23, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Circle will pay Binance a monthly fee on USDC held in its smart contract wallet
Science · September 22, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Three digital-asset trust charters clear the OCC on $26 million of working capital
Invest · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher
- A GENIUS Act carve-out for non-issuers lets Coinbase pay up to 4.5% on USDC
Invest · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
- OCC conditionally approves Bastion's trust conversion 172 days after filing
Invest · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Seoul Economic Daily urges Korea to set stablecoin standards before handing out issuance licences
Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Treasury's bill share overshoots its advisers' ceiling by $800 billion
Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher
- A conditional OCC charter lets Bastion run stablecoin issuance for other companies
Invest · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
- The CLARITY Act stalled eleven votes short of a Senate floor debate
Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Eleven votes short, CLARITY hands crypto's rulebook to whichever SEC comes next
Invest · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Banks want "solely" struck from the CLARITY Act before Tuesday's cloture vote
Invest · September 15, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Community bank deposits added $100 billion in the GENIUS Act's first year
Invest · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Britain hands the Bank of England an innovation duty that stability still outranks
Invest · August 28, 2026 · 4 publishers
- Stablecoins' $62 trillion shrinks to $4.2 trillion when you ask what it paid for
Invest · August 29, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Chelsea's unsold shirt front goes to a stablecoin issuer the FCA already licensed
Invest · August 28, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Community banks added $482 billion of deposits while stablecoins grew
Invest · September 12, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Stablecoin applicants must choose a supervisor while the OCC's rules are still proposals
Invest · September 11, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Two words in CLARITY's section 10404 will decide what counts as a permissible stablecoin reward
Invest · September 9, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Euro stablecoin supply grew 22.6% into a dollar market that added 0.05%
Invest · September 9, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Block applies for OCC trust bank charter, joining 22 other digital-asset applicants
Invest · September 8, 2026 · 1 publisher
- A six-week lame duck now carries the CLARITY Act's entire CFTC-SEC split
Invest · September 6, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Banks own two of the three legs every stablecoin payment travels
Invest · September 6, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Crypto's CLARITY Act faces slim odds of passing before midterms as House schedule shrinks
Product · September 5, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Codifying crypto AML duties gives bank compliance officers something to price
Invest · September 4, 2026 · 1 publisher
- ABA's chair pins the CLARITY Act fight to the deposit base
Invest · September 3, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Wyoming publishes 365 reserve attestations a year where the GENIUS Act asks for 12
Invest · September 2, 2026 · 2 publishers
- NYDFS zeroes X Money's advertised 6% yield for New York users on October 1
Invest · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Risk officers put digital assets first in line for balance-sheet cuts
Invest · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher
- JPMorgan reopens the stablecoin question it spent years answering with tokenized deposits
Invest · August 30, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Esper recasts the CLARITY Act as sanctions enforcement ahead of a September 15 cloture vote
Invest · August 27, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Stablecoin KYC and the Line at the Point of Issuance
Invest · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher