September 23, 2025
Santander, Visa, Mastercard selected for Brazil’s DREX CBDC Pilot
Image by Ledger Insights Banco Central do Brasil has announced the 13 themes that will be trialed during the second phase of the DREX pilots. Santander, Visa, Mastercard and Google are amongst the participants in the 16 consortia, which involve ...
September 23, 2025
Why asset managers, brokers need a shared stablecoin
Image by Ledger Insights In April, Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin announced it is willing to purchase tokens in BlackRock’s BUIDL tokenized money market fund (MMF) as a secondary market buyer. So BUIDL investors can sell their ...
September 4, 2025
Circle execs suggest regulatory capital for stablecoin issuers. Assess USDC de-peg event
Image by Ledger Insights Three senior executives at stablecoin issuer, Circle, published a paper outlining a Token Capital Adequacy Framework (TCAF), inspired by the Basel Committee rules for banks. One of the most interesting aspects of the paper is the ...
August 29, 2025
ECB to hold workshop on B2B payment innovations, incl stablecoins, tokenized deposits44
Image by Ledger Insights The European Central Bank announced an invitation to a workshop on the future of business-to-business (B2B) payments. Its work on developing the digital euro Central bank digital currency (CBDC) has prioritized personal and government payments. ...
August 29, 2025
OpenAI Rolls Out New Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT
Image by The Crypto Times OpenAI is beginning to roll out its new advanced voice mode for ChatGPT to a limited group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers. A select group of subscribers will have access to a variety of voice ...
August 14, 2025
FinCEN, Fed planning another swing at self hosted crypto AML?
Image by Ledger Insights On Friday the US Treasury published its semi-annual regulatory agenda. It includes two issues affecting cryptocurrency that may be related. In late 2020 the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a controversial rule change requiring ...
August 14, 2025
AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition
If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI Overviews. This is a new ...
