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
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
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
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
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
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
17 February 2026Greece, 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
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
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
The combined entity intends to focus on token listings, regulated digital asset infrastructure, enterprise-grade compliance frameworks, and institutional RWA tokenisation