Stablecoins have become the default settlement layer for institutional over-the-counter crypto trading, accounting for 81% of all OTC volume in the first half of 2026, according to a new report from institutional trading infrastructure provider Finery Markets. That is up from 23% in 2023 and 75% a year earlier, and it lands at the same moment OTC desks became the only trading venue type still growing, even as centralised and decentralised exchanges shrank. The finding sits at

FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its official media partnership with CDAO Financial Services & Insurance UK 2026, taking place on 15 September 2026 in London. This collaboration brings together two organisations committed to advancing data-driven excellence across the UK's financial services and insurance sectors. Hosted by Corinium Intelligence, CDAO Financial Services & Insurance UK 2026 is the essential gathering for data and analytics leaders navigating an industry

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed making electronic delivery the default channel for the regulatory information investors receive, a shift that would reverse a decades-old presumption in favour of paper. Under the proposal, released on 16 July 2026 and named Regulation E-Delivery, issuers, broker-dealers and investment advisers could send prospectuses, shareholder reports, proxy statements and trade confirmations electronically without first securing an

Stable, the Tether-aligned Layer 1 blockchain, has launched a consumer app called StablePay that lets users send and receive USDT worldwide in seconds with no transaction fees, moving the company from settlement infrastructure into a direct competitor to remittance operators and mobile wallets. Announced on 15 July 2026, the app also carries a yield feature that pays users a return on idle balances, a design choice that runs directly into an unresolved fight in US crypto legi

Managing general agents are being pushed to overhaul their pricing and underwriting operations as commercial insurance rates soften and competition tightens, according to independent research commissioned by pricing and underwriting insurtech Optalitix. The study, Pricing Transformation in MGAs, found that more than four in five MGAs have either already modernised their pricing capabilities or plan to start projects within the next 12 months, marking a shift from planning to

Interactive Brokers has opened a two-way stablecoin channel between its brokerage accounts and external crypto wallets, letting eligible US clients withdraw dollar balances by automatic conversion into USDC, PYUSD or RLUSD. Announced on July 14, 2026, alongside 12 new tradable tokens, the move completes a deposit-and-withdrawal loop that most traditional multi-asset brokers still do not offer, and it lands while the firm is posting some of the strongest trading activity in it

Thredd, the issuer processing platform, has joined Visa's Agentic Ready programme, giving card issuers across Europe a route to support AI agent-initiated payments without rebuilding their infrastructure. Consumer payments platform Zilch will be among the first issuers on Thredd's platform to switch on agent-initiated payments for cardholders, extending a partnership the two firms already run through Visa Flexible Credential in the UK. The move places Thredd at the processing

Brazil's Pix instant-payment network now moves more e-commerce value than credit cards for the first time in its history, a milestone that arrives at the exact moment Washington is threatening to penalise the system in a trade action. As the Office of the United States Trade Representative approaches its July 15, 2026 statutory deadline on a proposed 25% Section 301 tariff on Brazilian goods, the government-run rail that the USTR case singles out has just become the country's

Emirates NBD has become the first bank in the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye (MENAT) region to settle live cross-border US dollar payments on the Partior blockchain network, moving a two-year-old technology partnership into production. Corporate and institutional clients can now send real-time USD payments to beneficiaries banking with J.P. Morgan, which acted as both settlement and beneficiary bank in the first completed live transaction. The launch converts an Octobe