Payments & Liquidity

Blockchain for banks REPORT Is the financial system ready

Argues that banks' legacy settlement infrastructure is misaligned with real-time customer and market demands, and that blockchain can enable scalable, real-time shared-ledger settlement. It urges banks to move beyond pilots, target high-friction use cases, and build compliant digital-asset capabilities.

Topics: payments, stablecoins, crypto, regulation, settlement

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