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 ...

The Bank of Japan is testing blockchain technology for settlements that use tokenized central bank reserves. The Bank of ...

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 ...

Seda projected a net interest margin for Q1 2026 in the range of 3.90% to 3.95%, stating: "After bottoming out in the first quarter, we expect net interest margin to trend higher each quarter ...

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 ...

U.S. Bank has agreed to acquire financial services firm BTIG in a deal valued at up to $1 billion, a move that will strengthen its Charlotte-based executive leadership and operations as well as ...

John Hawkins was formerly a senior economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank for International Settlements. Central bankers from around the world have issued a joint statement of support ...