stablecoins Resources & Insights
Curated resources and insights on stablecoins across payments, fintech infrastructure, standards, regulation, and operational controls.
Research Library (101)
- Agentic Finance and Stablecoins: Everything to Know About the New Stack for Autonomous Finance — Explores how agentic finance combines AI-driven autonomous agents with stablecoins to create a new transaction stack ...
- Global payment matters - July 2026 (Jul 2026) — Quarterly legal update on global payments developments, highlighting digital assets in derivatives, DLT in repo marke...
- FFEdu - TBML Enters the Stablecoin Settlement Layer Era — Observation brief on trade-based money laundering risks emerging in stablecoin settlement layers, with typologies and...
- JUNE 2026 · A JOINT REPORT Digital Assets A strategic playbook for banks (Jun 2026) — Policy clarity, maturing infrastructure, and institutional adoption are pushing digital assets from experimentation t...
- Executive View: Stablecoins and the tokenization of money - What banking leaders need to know (Jun 2026) — KPMG explains how stablecoins and tokenized bank deposits differ in issuance, legal structure and infrastructure, and...
- NIST IR 8408 - Understanding Stablecoin Technology and Related Security Considerations — NIST IR 8408 explains stablecoin architectures, operational models, and key security risks, including custody, smart ...
- The Fed - Payment Stablecoins and Cross Border Payments: Benefits and Implications for Monetary Policy Implementation (Jul 2025) — Analyzes how payment stablecoins could improve cross-border payments while altering bank deposits, reserves, and tran...
- Targeted Update on Implementation of the FATF Standards on Virtual Assets and VASPs — FATF's July 2026 targeted update reviews implementation of its standards for virtual assets and virtual asset service...
- BIS Papers No 170 The impact of stablecoins on (May 2026) — Analyzes how stablecoins could affect the international monetary and financial system, with emphasis on foreign excha...
- BIS Working Papers No 1359: The Anatomy of Stablecoin Transactions (Jun 2026) — Brief on BIS Working Papers No 1359 The anatomy of stablecoin.
- Dollarisation and Monetary Control: What Lessons for the Rise of Stablecoins? — BIS Working Paper No 1370 examines what historical dollarisation episodes imply for the rise of stablecoins, focusing...
- Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer Customer Identification Program (Jun 2026) — Brief on Billing Code: 4810-02 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
- Why Digital Asset Market Structure Legislation Is Needed Now — CCI argues that U.S. digital asset market structure legislation is urgently needed to keep crypto innovation, exchang...
- DEPOSIT TOKENS A foundation for stable digital money (May 2022) — Explains deposit tokens as bank-issued digital money designed to combine the stability of deposits with programmable,...
- BIS - Digital Money Instruments: Regulatory Analysis (Apr 2026) — Analyzes stablecoins, tokenised money market funds, CBDCs, and tokenised deposits through the BIS lens of singleness,...
- Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions — Educational primer from the Ethereum Foundation for public sector and institutional readers, outlining Ethereum's arc...
- Euro stablecoins and their potential effect on sovereign bond markets (Apr 2026) — Analyzes how euro-denominated stablecoins issued or distributed in the US could influence demand, liquidity, and tran...
- FINTECH & PAYMENTS PAYMENT RAILS WITHOUT BORDERS: THE RISE OF STABLECOINS (Jul 2023) — Analyzes how stablecoins are emerging as borderless payment rails, with implications for speed, cost, and global reac...
- Fact Sheet: Proposed Rule to Implement GENIUS Act Customer Identification Program Requirements — Brief on Fact Sheet: Proposed Rule to Implement GENIUS Act Customer.
- Approach to International Cryptoasset Firms (ACIF) — FCA finalised guidance explains how it will assess international cryptoasset firms seeking UK authorisation. It sets ...
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- pacs.crypto Control Room: Watching an ISO 20022 Crypto Payment End to End — A work-in-progress look at the pacs.crypto Control Room: a bank-to-VASP walkthrough that follows one crypto payment f...
- From POC to Production: Why Payment Innovation Stalls — Reflections on Tom Alaerts' pacs.crypto work: payment innovation does not lack POCs; it lacks production-grade adopti...
- Inside SSI | Trends | 3 — Inside SSI | Trends week | 3 Tokenised deposits & stablecoins 🪙 🪙 Tokenised bank liabilities: major banks are trial...
- Inside SSI | Trends | Week Wrap — Inside SSI | Trends week | Wrap‑up Trend watch: balancing innovation & SSI basics 📡 This week we explored four emerg...
- Inside SSI | Landscape | 3 — Inside SSI | Landscape week | 3 Americas snapshot 🌎 🏦 Fedwire & CHIPS dominate USD clearing; as of 2024 CHIPS settl...
- From Static SSIs to Digital SSIs - The Wallet Era Just Got Real — From static SSIs to Digital SSIs the wallets era just got real. Citi and SWIFT completed a fiat↔digital currency sett...
- FSB Stablecoin Warning: Who Is Building a Solution to Cross-Border Fragmentation? — Previously, we unpacked the FSB's stark warning: the global stablecoin landscape is dangerously fragmented, creating ...
- Paxos's $300 Trillion Oops: The Best Free Stress Test for Stablecoins — Paxos's recent "oops" moment (accidentally minting nearly $300 trillion in PYUSD before quickly burning it) was the b...
- The Interoperability Battle: SWIFT, Stablecoins & CBDCs in the G20 Plan — The Interoperability Battle: How SWIFT, Stablecoins & CBDCs Fit the G20's Plan Following up on the FSB's report: The ...
- Swift's Retail Cross-Border Scheme: Real Competition to Stablecoins? — Swift's new retail cross‑border scheme: real competition to stablecoins, or smart co‑opetition? Swift just announced ...