TradFi & Fintech

Janus Henderson Investors, the $480 billion asset manager, has announced a four-part partnership with Ethena covering CLO fund distribution, a strategic ENA token investment, USDe treasury deployment, and exploration of exchange-traded instruments for USDe distribution.

JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and more than a dozen peers have announced a joint initiative to put commercial bank deposits onchain, operated by The Clearing House and targeting a first-half 2027 launch.

BitMine Immersion Technologies filed a 424B5 prospectus supplement to raise up to $300 million through Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at a 9.5% cumulative dividend — applying Strategy's STRC capital-markets playbook to a corporate Ethereum treasury sitting on $9.2 billion in unrealized losses.

Western Union has made its USDPT stablecoin available on Bybit's fiat channels in Latin America, making Bybit the first major crypto exchange to integrate USDPT — arriving two days after MoneyGram launched its own rival dollar token on Stellar.

Visa and stablecoin issuer Brale are piloting settlement using SBC, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, on Canton Network, the privacy-preserving institutional DLT, testing whether blockchain settlement can meet bank-grade compliance requirements.

Deel is the first enterprise to combine Bridge, Privy, and Tempo in a single product, issuing a custom USD-denominated stablecoin for 1.5 million contractors across 150 countries, starting in Argentina.

The British neobank, with 70 million customers and a $75 billion valuation, will pair FDIC-insured accounts with stablecoin access on a single platform — a tier-one fintech entering US banking with stablecoins designed in, not bolted on.

Issuers and acquirers can now clear card transactions in regulated stablecoins on Arbitrum, Base, Canton, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tempo and XRPL, with ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank and Nuvei lined up as the first adopters in the US and Latin America.

The $1.74 trillion asset manager is letting institutions move directly between stablecoins and shares of its tokenized US government money fund through MoonPay's new institutional rails, marking one of the first listings of a US-registered tokenized MMF on a third-party onchain trading venue.

A six-figure trade settled against the Ornn Compute Price Index pushes the world's largest prediction market into TradFi-style risk transfer, with FalconX signing on as a dedicated market maker for future blocks.