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#stablecoin

Shinhan Card, South Korea's largest credit card issuer, is stepping deeper into blockchain technology through a new partnership with the Solana Foundation, as traditional financial institutions accelerate efforts to integrate digital assets into mainstream payments.

The Borderless Benchmark Q1 2026 report indicates that the Brazilian real recorded a 0 bps quoted execution cost from multiple providers across two consecutive months, showcasing the stability of the LATAM corridor.

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) spent years designing a framework that would make a collapse like Terra/Luna structurally impossible on its soil.

Nium's infrastructure leverages 40 regulatory licenses to provide compliant issuance across 190 countries without requiring businesses to build new backend systems, streamlining the process significantly.

Fidelity Investments, one of the largest asset managers on the planet, announced on Wednesday it will launch its own stablecoin. Like other stablecoins, Fidelity's token-known as the Fidelity Digital Dollar or FIDD-will be fully backed by reserves to ensure it maintains a 1-to-1 peg to the dollar. The company said FIDD will be available from Fidelity and on exchanges in the coming weeks, and that it will be available to both institutional and retail clients.

SoFi Technologies Inc.'s ( NASDAQ: SOFI) chief executive officer stated at a conference earlier this year that the fintech company is targeting 30% member growth and 20% revenue growth. The stock is trading for 2.9% less than a week ago, after SoFi launched a fully reserved U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. Note that the share price is still up 71.2% from six months ago, far outperforming the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. SoFi's one-year gain is 72.5%.

RMJDT is being pitched as a ringgit-pegged token tied to Johor's Crown Prince. It was launched by his company, Bullish Aim, and issued on Zetrix, a network connected to Malaysia's national blockchain infrastructure. The token is intended for payments and cross-border trade settlement, with the project also announcing a 500 million Malaysian ringgit ($121 million) Zetrix-token treasury to support the network's day-to-day operations.

"It's no secret that President Trump, once a Bitcoin skeptic, has become a full-blown convert and that he and his family are using crypto to enrich themselves. What far fewer people understand is how Trump's crypto ventures are structured on a corporate level. On the latest episode of Crypto Playbook (available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube), Fortune journalist Ben Weiss-who has covered the Trump crypto empire from the inside-broke down how it is in fact a stable of separate businesses."

Leading crypto wallet provider MetaMask is launching its own stablecoin in partnership with payment giant Stripe Inc.'s stablecoin arm, Bridge, and decentralized stablecoin platform M0. MetaMask is a self-custodial crypto wallet developed by Consensys, a software company focused on building products tailored to the Ethereum blockchain. MetaMask counts more than 100 million users annually and is connected to tens of thousands of decentralized applications, platforms that run on blockchains.

During second-quarter earnings calls, executives at five of the six largest US banks said they've either launched stablecoin products or have plans to do so.

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