Swiss bank shields Bitget institutions while retail funds freeze
Bitget says about $387.5 million in assets was transferred to attacker-controlled addresses during a Sept. 24 wallet breach. Its withdrawals remained suspended in notices issued through Sept. 25, even as deposits and trading continued. On the day of the…
IBM links 17 banks to the SWIFT ledger, but the cloud risk persists
IBM announced a beta connection between its Digital Asset Haven and SWIFT’s shared ledger for tokenized deposits on Sept. 24, using an ISO 20022 Messaging Adapter that lets participating institutions instruct ledger transactions through standard…
Coinbase gives community banks a stablecoin bridge while supplying infrastructure underneath
Coinbase’s new partnership with payments platform Moov gives community banks and credit unions a route to offer stablecoin services through the financial relationship they already have with businesses. The local institution can remain the customer’s…
US Bank moves USBDC across borders on Stellar, but only inside its own walls
U.S. Bank has completed a live cross-border payment pilot using USBDC, its proprietary U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. The transaction demonstrated in a limited test that the lender could move its own token between bank entities on a public blockchain…
Banks get cross-exchange crypto hedge relief under Canada’s new 2027 capital rule
Canada’s banking regulator has finalized a narrow change to its crypto capital rules that should reduce capital overstatement for some market-neutral positions without broadly easing how banks must treat digital-asset risk. The Office of the…
Why Bitcoin bulls shouldn’t mistake a shrinking dollar reserve share for central bank buying
A Sept. 2, 2026 analysis by New York Fed researchers shows how a few large reserve portfolios can lower the global dollar share without a broad retreat from dollars. For investors assessing future sovereign demand for Bitcoin, the distinction is between…
How stablecoins are quietly becoming the Fed’s debt buyer of last resort
Circle president Heath Tarbert told Congress on Sept. 2 that placing digital-dollar infrastructure under US rules could reinforce the network effects that support the currency’s global role. The testimony framed stablecoin and digital asset legislation…