NEW YORK, Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capitolis, the financial technology company, today announced the appointment of Murugan Manickam as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Reporting to Okan Pekin, President of Capitolis, Manickam will be responsible for leading Capitolis’ global engineering organization and its data and AI strategy, driving innovation and execution to support the

MUFG Pension & Market Services (MPMS) has entered into a binding agreement to acquire GROW Technology Services, a fintech superannuation administration platform whose core product is built on distributed ledger technology. The Australian Financial Review reported the price at around AUD 78 million (US$56 million), roughly a third of GROW’s valuation a year earlier. The

TechTalk DLT can transform global payments, says IMF chief Tokenization, stablecoins may ‘fluidify’ finance, make big cross-border payments cheaper, faster Peter Starr   31 Aug 2026 In response, to the question, can distributed ledger technology ( DLT ) like blockchain transform cross-border payments on a global scale? International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva, answers:

Aug 28, 2026 At this year's Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, a discussion of Darrell Duffie's paper on tokenized finance and the perimeter of central banking highlighted the potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in wholesale finance. According to the source, tokenisation allows financial assets and money to be represented as digital tokens on programmable

The Bank of England (BoE) is set to receive a new secondary objective to support innovation across payment systems and digital money, as the UK government looks to strengthen the country’s position as a global financial services hub. The new mandate will sit beneath the BoE’s existing primary responsibility for maintaining financial stability, with HM

ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said central banks should move their money onto distributed ledgers as tokenization reshapes financial markets, arguing that central bank reserves remain superior to stablecoins as the ultimate settlement asset. At the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, Schnabel said tokenization could make financial transactions faster, safer and more programmable by