us Resources & Insights
Curated resources and insights on us across payments, fintech infrastructure, standards, regulation, and operational controls.
Research Library (44)
- FSOC - Annual Report 2025 — FSOC's 2025 annual report reviews vulnerabilities across the U.S. financial system, highlighting risks from nonbank f...
- Latham & Watkins - 10 Key Focus Areas for US Bank Regulators in 2026 — Legal and regulatory outlook on 2026 U.S. bank supervision priorities, including stress testing, charters, AML, and d...
- 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...
- BigTech in Financial Services: Emerging Regulatory Considerations — IMF technical note examining emerging regulatory issues raised by BigTech firms in financial services, with emphasis ...
- Data First vs Integration First: Why Digital Government Integration Fails Without Data Governance — Analyzes why integration-first digital government initiatives underdeliver, using Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia as a ca...
- 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...
- Agents of Chaos (Feb 2026) — Analyzes how AI agents could amplify operational, conduct, and systemic risks in U.S. financial services, while also ...
- Artificial Intelligence Index Report — Annual benchmark report tracking the state of artificial intelligence across research, industry, policy, and public a...
- Authors Nils Grevenbrock Zhengpu Zhao — Analysis of a US-focused compliance and risk topic, likely examining regulatory or standards-related implications for...
- 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,...
- DeFi Lending: Returns, Leverage, and Liquidation (Feb 2026) — Analyzes DeFi lending markets in the US, focusing on how returns are generated, how leverage builds through collatera...
- EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, XXX (Aug 2024) — Draft European Commission guidelines for stakeholder consultation explain how to classify high-risk AI systems under ...
- EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, XXX (May 2024) — Draft European Commission implementing regulation setting common formats and minimum acceptance requirements for subm...
- Effective access to beneficial ownership information User-centred and responsible approaches (Apr 2026) — Analyzes how US beneficial ownership information can be made more effectively accessible through user-centred, respon...
- Electronic Business Registries — Guide on best practices for electronic business registries, published by the Cape Town Convention Academic Project in...
- 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...
- FSI Insights on policy implementation Acting under (May 2026) — FSI Insights examines how authorities implement policy when acting under uncertainty, highlighting supervisory judgme...
- Financial crime risk controls - Vessel checking - Guide (Jul 2026) — Guide on Financial crime risk controls - Vessel checking - Guide.
- Insurers subject to resolution — Analyzes how US insurers can be placed into resolution, outlining the legal and supervisory framework, triggers for i...