Stablecoins that offer interest-bearing rewards may increasingly resemble bank deposits. But unlike traditional deposits, they lack the regulatory safeguards that undergird the banking system. That ...

The World Bank has projected that Nigeria’s economy will grow by 4.4 per cent in both 2026 and 2027, describing the outlook as the country’s fastest pace of expansion in more than a decade. According ...

Stablecoin issuers and distributors offering customers access to stablecoin yield may essentially be creating their own parallel ecosystem to bank operations, global bank JPMorgan's chief financial ...

Jeremy Barnum told JPMorgan shareholders that yield-bearing stablecoins risk creating a parallel banking system without the safeguards of traditional regulation. Stablecoins emerged as a topic during ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses WhatsApp as a distribution vector for a Windows banking trojan called Astaroth in attacks targeting Brazil. The campaign ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has recently reported the key issues that are now said to be facing the US federal banking system in the Semiannual Risk Perspective for Fall 2025.

Custodia Bank seeks a full rehearing as it challenges the Federal Reserve’s authority to deny access to its core payment system. The Wyoming crypto bank argues the ruling undermines state banking ...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Payments firm PayPal (PYPL.O), opens new tab said on Monday it has applied to establish a bank in the United States, as companies rush to capitalize on a friendly regulatory ...

US banking groups have strongly criticised the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) approval of national trust charters for several crypto firms. They say the charters grant bank-like ...