Banks news articles
SWIFT Set to Revolutionise Banking with 2025 Digital Asset Trials
In 2025, banks across North America, Europe, and Asia will join forces with SWIFT to trial digital assets. SWIFT, the global financial messa...
Banks Will Use Swift to Trial Digital Asset and Currency Transactions From 2025
Digital assets were probably a laughing stock for bankers a few years ago. But things can change, and pretty quickly, too. Global banks acro...
ANZ Joins Chainlink, Singapore’s MAS Project Guardian for Tokenised Real-World Assets
ANZ Bank has become the first Australian bank to join Project Guardian, a real-world asset tokenisation and blockchain interoperability expl...
xForge vs Solana Seeker: Ethereum Enters the Blockchain Phone War
Ethereum’s new phone, xFone, is set to take on Solana’s blockchain-powered phone market with the upcoming launch of xForge. This...
China Opens Stimulus Flood Gates Amid Record Demand for Crypto OTC Trades
China is arguably the most controversial country when it comes to crypto. Following years of harsh government crackdowns on digital asset co...
RBA Shifts Focus, Drops Retail CBDC, Prioritises Wholesale in New Roadmap
In a speech delivered yesterday to the Intersekt Fintech Conference in Melbourne, the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) Assistant Governor...
Bank Of Japan Could Raise Interest Rates, Sparking Further Crypto Market Fears
All eyes have been on the US Federal Reserve following Chair Jerome Powell’s pledge to lower interest rates sometime this month. This pres...
Australian Man Receives 3-Year Sentence for Spending AU$6.07 Million in Mistaken Crypto.com Refund
The Aussie man who turned AU$100 into a AU$10.47 million windfall (using one simple trick the big banks don’t want you to know about), has...
HSBC Australia Says Crypto’s Popularity with Scammers is Reason for Recent Block
As reported earlier, HSBC Australia has stopped customers from sending money to cryptocurrency exchanges. The sweeping change was made witho...
Breaking: HSBC Blocks All Transactions to Crypto Exchanges Commencing 24 July
HSBC has just announced sweeping changes, affecting anyone using the bank to engage with crypto services – and with very little notice. Fr...
Report: Russia Ponders Crypto Use Amid International Money Transfer Challenges
After the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been placed under many international sanctions, making the international transfer of money increas...
Will Democrats Defy Biden and Pass Pro-Crypto SAB 121—Again?
Weeks after President Joe Biden vetoed a bill passed by both chambers of Congress that would finally allow American banks to hold crypto ass...