A consortium of United States banks or “an association of FDIC-insured financial institutions” including New York Community Bank (NYCB), NBH Bank, FirstBank, Sterling National Bank, and Synovus Bank is set to launch a “bank-minted” stablecoin with the ticker USDF.
A number of American banks formed a consortium to mint USDF stablecoins in an effort to address consumer protection and regulatory concerns about the non-bank-issued stablecoins as we can see more today in our cryptocurrency news. The USDF Consortium is an association of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that was launched on January 12th. The […]
Figure Technologies Inc., the startup co-founded by Mike Cagney, created a platform to help private companies raise and trade equity using its blockchain technology. Figure Equity Solutions has already helped manage, raise and trade more than $4.7 billion in equity, the company said Wednesday in a statement. The business has done two secondaries now with […]
As digital assets continue to become more and more mainstream, what role they’ll play as they move beyond a token for professional traders to something more widespread and ubiquitous remains a primary question. To some extent, there are no clear answers – yet. A lot depends on the moves that government organizations and banks make moving forward, and the answers they come up with could have ramifications that completely change the nature of banking going forward. While the regulatory answers are still murky – though that may not be the case for long, as the Biden administration continues to focus
Figure Technologies, Inc., which aims to transform financial services by leveraging the power of blockchain tech, has finalized a $200 million Series D...
Figure Securities, a division of the digital lending service provider Figure Technologies, has reportedly acquired approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission...
