The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) issued over 731,000 notices to unregistered telemarketers in 2025. It also imposed more than 473,000 one-month communication restrictions, six-month communication caps on 89,936 repeat offenders, and disconnected over 184,000 telecom resources during the year. And since August 2024, TRAI has disconnected over 2.1 million telecom resources cumulatively. Consumers

Shipfinex FZCO has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) in Dubai for a broker-dealer license for its platform designed to enable fractional ownership of ships by tokenising maritime assets. The company uses Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), more commonly known as ‘blockchain’, to convert vessels into Maritime Asset Tokens (MAT). This

Key Takeaways HM Treasury selected HSBC Orion as DIGIT’s technology platform on February 12, 2026. The UK structured DIGIT as a digitally native gilt, with the blockchain ledger serving as the sole legal record of ownership. The 2026 pilot will test on-chain settlement of the cash leg using tokenized commercial bank deposits to enable atomic

Joachim Nagel, President of the German Central Bank (Bundesbank) and member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council, said that issuing a euro-pegged stablecoin could both reduce costs in cross-border payments and be an important tool against the risk of “dollarization” created by dollar-based stablecoins. Speaking at the German-American Chamber of Commerce, Nagel emphasized

The number of cross-border transactions has risen significantly in the last few years.  According to Fortune Business Insights, the global cross-border payment market size was valued at USD 371.59 billion in 2025 and is expected to grow from USD 397.37 billion in 2026 to USD 727.74 billion by 2034, exhibiting a CAGR of 7.90%. While

Homepage > News > Business > UK selects HSBC’s blockchain platform for digital bond pilot The United Kingdom Treasury has selected HSBC Holdings’ (NASDAQ: HSBC) blockchain platform as the provider for its Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot issuance, which will take place under the country’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The DIGIT Pilot was launched in

By PYMNTS  |  February 18, 2026 A tokenized deposit network built by five banks and a blockchain-based platform led by former Comptroller of the Currency Gene Ludwig is expected to be available to the banks’ customers in the fourth quarter, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Feb. 18). The launch will follow a pilot program that is set to be