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HSBC rolls out RedCoin stablecoin to PayMe's 3.3 million users
The Hong Kong dollar token is fully backed by high-quality liquid assets in separate accounts; a tokenized money market fund share class is next.
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Ripple Prime says it offers round-the-clock swaps on 100-plus markets as HSBC flags thin depth
The brokerage formerly known as Hidden Road announced the service on Oct. 15, with Virtu already trading.
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Vault12 says SEC token safe harbor keeps VGT off exchanges
The wallet-backup firm raised $17.45 million in a 2018 token sale and says exchanges want assurance the SEC will not later challenge VGT.
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BlackRock files for iShares Bitcoin Managed Protect ETF using $65 billion IBIT
The filing does not specify the downside-protection level and follows a similar Calamos product.
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OCC issues final GENIUS Act stablecoin rule without rewards examples
The rule adds a sign-off requirement for payment stablecoin rewards and takes effect January 18.
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OKXICE notice lists nine objectors including Broadcom, Verizon and UnitedHealth
The October 15 notice names eight newly disclosed objectors among the nine, without reasons or dates.
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JPMorgan plans JPM Coin on Ethereum for approved counterparties
The bank cited public-chain liquidity; The Block reported peer-to-peer transfers within the Ethereum Virtual Machine ecosystem, including Base.
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Evernorth names Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo for $648M XRP treasury
The company describes the lending and yield work as phased and has not detailed the counterparties' roles, terms or timetable.
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MSCI finalizes index rules that could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from global equity indexes
Affected companies will be named Nov. 11; the change takes effect at the close of Nov. 30.
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Perpetuals.com files with SEC to run tokenized US stock venue
The Nasdaq-listed fintech, run by former FTX Europe chief Patrick Gruhn, is the second firm to seek the SEC's innovation exemption for tokenized U.S. equities.
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Kraken Parent Payward to Buy Lithuania's Saldo Bank for EU Banking License
The Kraken parent would gain a license to offer interest-bearing deposits, loans, payment cards and euro payments.
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Federated Hermes plans first tokenized fund shares through Prometheum
The $911 billion manager says money market funds are a likely starting point and has not named the funds or blockchains.
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BNY and Citadel Securities Complete Tokenized Treasury Collateral Transaction
BNY said it expects to extend settlement hours for Federal Reserve-eligible securities and U.S. triparty transactions to European and Asian hours next year.
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Standard Chartered adds RLUSD custody in Dubai
The Dubai custody is live for eligible clients; a planned LMAX collateral arrangement remains subject to documentation, testing and regulatory approvals.
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Jeonbuk Bank launches bitcoin-backed corporate loans in South Korea
The lender issues Korean won against bitcoin held by a registered crypto custodian and enforces repayment through a court-ordered collateral sale.
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CFTC interim swap-definition rule takes effect immediately; event contracts face 30-day comment
The SEC separately proposed expanding fund cross trading to most fixed-income securities; comments run 60 days after Federal Register publication.
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OKX adds Circle, Ripple, Qube and SC Ventures as investors at $25bn pre-money
The exchange did not disclose the amount, and the round prices at the same $25 billion pre-money valuation ICE agreed in March.
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Sui's Hashi prepares $500 million bitcoin lending launch
Anchorage Digital joins as a day-one partner for the network that lets holders pledge bitcoin without moving it off the Bitcoin ledger.
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Securitize to launch tokenized US stocks on Solana backed one-to-one by shares
Securitize Stocks will start with 12 companies and settle in USDC, with Apple and Nvidia named, according to The Block.
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Deus X Capital ceases operations; CEO Tim Grant to lead AI venture TensorX
The crypto and fintech investor will formally unwind on Jan. 31, 2027, with CIO Stuart Connolly staying on and Morton family backers splitting into two new firms.
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Standard Chartered plans Singapore crypto custody service
The service would cover crypto, stablecoins and tokenized assets and sit in the bank's financing and securities-services unit; no start date has been set.
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GSR commits $100 million to Hare, mostly credit for two Aave vaults
The multi-year commitment will seed one vault for major stablecoins and one for Paxos' tokenized gold.
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UK hands six banks pricing and placement in digital gilt pilot on HSBC Orion
DIGIT, a short-dated bond outside the main debt programme, tests whether primary dealers keep their role onchain.
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Solana Foundation publishes open-source settlement standard tested in a Galaxy commercial paper deal
The code settles cash and assets in one on-chain transaction; whether a single JPMorgan-arranged trade becomes a template other institutions accept is the question.
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Cerebras objects to OKXICE plan to tokenize 63 U.S. stocks
The SEC exemption runs five years and gives issuers 30 days to object, putting Cerebras's refusal in the path of OKXICE's planned 24/7 stock venue.
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Plume opens a tokenized vault holding Fidelity's actively managed bond ETF
The nBND vault adds credit and duration to a tokenized fixed-income shelf built on short-dated Treasury products.
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Payward and Singapore Gulf Bank open 24/7 U.S. dollar settlement for institutional crypto clients
The service starts with U.S. dollar transactions for select clients in eligible Asian and Gulf jurisdictions.
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Brazil's CSD BR keeps the official fund register while mirroring ownership on the XRP Ledger
CSD BR keeps registration, deposit and settlement for BTG Pactual's funds, with the XRP Ledger copy described as a second record rather than the legal one.
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SEC custody proposal would make state trust companies qualified custodians
Adviser self-custody would require proving expertise and the absence of any willing qualified custodian, while state-chartered trusts would become eligible to hold client digital assets.
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Dune finds equity tokens drive tokenized-asset trading while Treasury funds sit still
The analytics platform puts tokenized real-world assets at $34.5 billion and says the value of individual-stock token holdings grew ninefold in a year.
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Lloyds and Visa settle $750,000 in USDC in a seven-day cross-border pilot
The payment moved from Jersey to the United States in under an hour, with Lloyds on Canton and Visa on a second blockchain the coverage does not name.
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HANetf ETCs and HSBC's RedCoin list zero assets as Franklin, Goldman seek crypto cash
Eleven of fifteen placements tracked over Sept. 29–30 show nothing or under $500, while Franklin's $686 million money funds became pledgeable on Bybit and Goldman's FTIXX reached crypto firms through Lynq.
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HSBC hedges HANetf bitcoin ETCs while readying Hong Kong dollar stablecoin
The bank is hedge counterparty on HANetf's sterling- and euro-hedged crypto ETCs and plans RedCoin for PayMe and its mobile app.
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With Peirce gone, a two-member SEC decides crypto rules by guidance
The staking carve-out can be unwritten, the tokenized-stock exemption is pending, and the Clarity Act's 49-50 failure has left the arguing to the agencies.
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Two business days is the exam stablecoins have to pass
The Fed's redemption deadline and reward presumption turn yield and liquidity into compliance variables, exposing a high-volume chain and handing bank-built corridors the standards.
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Custody wins the tokenization back office
The CFTC's equivalence proof turns tokenized collateral into a compliance obligation, and the firms selling the proof and the rails are positioned to collect the $1.7 trillion collateral mobility pool.
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Bitcoin ETFs booked a record day Washington had nothing to do with
Three issuers took nine-tenths of a $998.95 million day after the Senate lost cloture and the Fed raised rates, the clearest sign yet that bitcoin ETFs now clear on distribution, not legislation.
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Ondo filed twice at zero; the money went to a manager
Four digital-asset wrappers filed empty in the same week the only funded digital-asset vehicle in the record raised $102.4 million.
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Hana's $100 million digital bond skips Korea's tokenization queue
Same-day settlement through Euroclear on existing shelf documents shows the clearing rail, not the token, is the product.
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Crypto's rulebook now runs on what venues choose to disclose
A ten-day review clock and an undisclosed filing at OMB leave the definition of a venue's headline volume number to the venue itself.