Japan’s central bank says a sandbox is underway to examine settlement using current account deposits, while warning of smart contract design risks.

Japan’s central bank is running blockchain settlement experiments and advancing tokenized central bank money initiatives ...

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Travis Hill. Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust failed Friday, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., marking the first bank failure of 2026. Processing ...

The Senate’s CLARITY Act would explicitly classify XRP as a non-security, removing years of legal uncertainty that kept institutional investors on the sidelines. The CLARITY Act stalled on January 15 ...

GABORONE, January 26, 2026 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the Botswana Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience (HEPRR) Project, which will support the ...

MUMBAI, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India on Friday unveiled measures to inject more than $23 billion liquidity into the banking system through a combination of bond purchases, buy/sell FX ...

Tennessee now has about $58 billion in road construction projects waiting to be funded, and no longterm strategy to fund them, state transportation officials say. Tennessee is one of the few states ...

The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s opposition or the frustrated hopes of young people hungry for more personal ...

Access to capital remains a top challenge for entrepreneurs, but it’s an obstacle that might improve this year with changes in bank liquidity requirements. U.S. bank regulatory agencies are reducing ...

Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan said last week that, as President Trump searches for a new chair of the Federal Reserve, maintaining the banking system's independence is paramount. The ...

Crypto policy is shifting from talk to implementation as the OCC, FDIC and Federal Reserve begin to sketch a regulatory perimeter for stablecoins and tokenized deposits in the U.S., Bank of America ...

Investors and economists are warning about a piece of the financial system that could pose a risk that is potentially similar in ways to the housing crash that preceded the financial crisis in 2008.