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EUR CoinVertible added to XRPL by SG-FORGE


20 February 2026 France
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Societe Generale-FORGE, supported by Ripple’s custody solution, has added the euro-pegged stablecoin to the XRP Ledger, in a bid to increase its adoption and scalability benefit
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Bridge receives conditional approval from OCC


19 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally granted the firm approval to arrange a federally chartered national trust bank, enabling it to operate stablecoin products and services under federal oversight
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Elliptic appoints Stenhouse as CFO


19 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Tom Stenhouse has held positions as chief financial officer and chief operating officer at a number of fintech companies, including Nextgen Glearing, Taptap Send, Kriya, and WiredScore
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Bacchi-Howard joins Equals Money


19 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Marcus Bacchi-Howard has been appointed head of digital assets, and brings over two decades of experience in the financial services sector with him to his new role
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Payward acquires Magna


19 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Kraken’s financial infrastructure platform has acquired the token management platform, which is anticipated to serve as an operational layer bringing tooling for vesting, white-label token claims, custody, and escrow workflows
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BananaCrystal launches platform


19 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Built on the Hedera Network, the currency liquidity pool and prediction market are designed to enable swaps across over 150 digitised fiat currencies, and support enterprise cross-border payment management
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SWIAT supports Bank of Greece


17 February 2026 Greece, Germany
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Secure Worldwide Interbank Asset Transfer platform has backed Bank of Greece in ‘Project Sovereign’, a simulation of a digital sovereign bond issuance on the blockchain
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WEB3 granted MiCA license


17 February 2026 Poland
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The approval will allow the Morphic-owned firm to operate across the European Union under the new adoption framework
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SFC boosts Hong Kong’s digital asset market


16 February 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Hansa Tote

As part of its latest measures to expand product and service diversity under the ASPIRe Roadmap, the SFC is enabling virtual asset brokers to offer virtual asset financing to their securities margin clients
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Nazarov joins CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee


13 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Chainlink’s co-founder Sergey Nazarov will join executives from Nasdaq, CME Group, Intercontinental Exchange, Coinbase, and Robinhood to advise the CTFC on FinTech innovation
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Open World and VerifyMe sign merger agreement


13 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The combined entity intends to focus on token listings, regulated digital asset infrastructure, enterprise-grade compliance frameworks, and institutional RWA tokenisation