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Dutch regulators urge legal reforms to enable token-only securities
The story highlights that tokenisation adoption may now hinge less on technology and more on whether national securities law is updated to recognize natively digital instruments.
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Samsung Wallet to add USDC transfers for eligible Galaxy users in the US
A major handset wallet adding USDC transfers could push stablecoin-based remittances from crypto-native apps into a mass-market consumer interface, raising competitive pressure on banks, wallets and payment providers.
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DNB and Commercial Bank of Dubai join the CBMT sandbox for tokenized deposits
The story shows tokenized deposits moving beyond a Europe-only bank consortium toward cross-border corporate payment and treasury use cases, which could broaden real-world testing of regulated on-chain settlement.
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OCC fines American Express National Bank $350 million over AML/BSA compliance failures
The case shows that U.S. bank supervisors are still willing to impose very large penalties and formal orders when AML controls, transaction monitoring, and customer due diligence are found to be inadequate.
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Luxembourg to issue a blockchain-native sovereign bond of at least €1 billion
A sovereign issue at this scale would test whether tokenized bond structures can move from pilots to benchmark government funding while still fitting existing institutional market infrastructure.