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A proposed FASB accounting update could allow qualifying stablecoins to be treated as cash equivalents, making them more practical for corporate treasury use. Tempo says direct redemption rights with issuers would be key, while the proposal remains open for public comment until Nov. 19.
ARK Invest is standing by its five-year Bitcoin outlook despite a flat-to-down year. Lorenzo Valente discussed the firm’s 2030 thesis, Bitcoin as digital gold and permissionless money, stablecoins, tokenization and the factors keeping some institutions cautious.
The Financial Stability Board warned that stablecoins remain untested in severe crises and urged governments to improve cross-border information sharing, monitoring and failure planning as the market’s capitalization reaches $306 billion.
Standard Chartered has launched institutional custody for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger through its Dubai branch. The bank also plans to let LMAX clients use RLUSD as trading collateral while keeping the tokens in custody, subject to approvals.
The Financial Stability Board has warned G20 policymakers that cross-border stablecoin oversight remains incomplete and that AI could intensify cybersecurity and financial-stability risks. It urged stronger safeguards as regulators address spillovers into banks, markets and critical financial infrastructure.
France’s Finance Committee approved proposals to tax swaps into MiCA-regulated stablecoins and extend exit tax to crypto holdings above €800,000. The amendments are not law and must be reintroduced after the committee rejected the budget’s revenue section ahead of Assembly debate.
A Visa survey of 14,250 Asia-Pacific consumers found that 46% may use stablecoins within five years, compared with 16% who used them recently. Yet only 6% understood the technology accurately, with fraud and scam concerns the leading adoption barrier.
AI agents can now discover services and pay with stablecoins under preset limits, but refunds and liability remain unclear. Regulators and merchants are concerned that automated disputes could raise costs, while platforms compete to control shopping interfaces and the process for judging failed transactions.
France’s Finance Committee backed proposals to tax crypto-to-stablecoin swaps from 2027 and extend exit-tax rules to unrealized crypto gains for households with holdings above 800,000 euros, while lawmakers also proposed a 10-year loss carryforward.
ESMA says EU-authorized crypto firms should resolve clients’ exposure to non-compliant stablecoins within three months, with national regulators able to permit tightly supervised withdrawal, conversion, transfer or custody services for an orderly exit.
The XRP Ledger has activated PermissionDelegationV1_1, allowing banks, stablecoin issuers and other businesses to assign limited tasks to separate accounts while keeping primary keys offline. Users are still warned not to delegate PaymentBurn because a separate flaw could permit issued-token creation.
XRPL’s $1.338 billion in tracked stablecoins shows the scale of assets on the ledger, not the amount of XRP users must buy or hold. Fees, account reserves, bridge transactions and liquidity pools create XRP demand, but the available dashboard does not quantify those channels.
China’s peer-to-peer stablecoin wallets rose 43-fold between early 2024 and mid-2026, while South Korea became East Asia’s largest crypto economy at $449.1 billion. The region is also advancing tokenization, institutional custody, cross-border payments and digital-asset licensing frameworks.
ESMA says authorized EU crypto platforms must stop letting customers increase holdings of stablecoins that fail MiCA rules. National regulators will oversee a wind-down of existing balances within three months, with limited services allowed for sales, conversions, withdrawals and transfers.
ESMA has instructed EU-authorised crypto firms to stop providing services involving stablecoins that do not comply with MiCA. National regulators must ensure existing exposures are addressed by January 8, 2027, while limited supervised exit services may continue.
Samsung will add Solana-based USDC transfers to Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay for 82 million U.S. Galaxy devices from the last week of October, with built-in conversion between the stablecoin and local currencies.
Standard Chartered plans to launch custody services in Singapore for institutional and eligible corporate clients, covering selected cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets subject to regulatory requirements.
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