The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Monday called on community banks to enter the stablecoin market, including by applying for permission to issue their own dollar-pegged tokens.
The regulator said it wants community banks to help shape the future of payments and encouraged them to apply directly or through subsidiaries to become permitted stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act.
βThese opportunities complement the OCCβs Community Bank Comeback initiatives to right-size regulation and tailor supervision so community banks can grow, compete, and continue serving their communities,β β said the OCC.
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Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, joined the push to protect workers with "The Stability and Opportunity for Workers Act," a bill that would expand unemployment benefits during "high unemployment periods."
The bill would extend unemployment benefits for 52 weeks if the unemployment rate reaches 8.5%, double the current standard of up to 26 weeks. The bill would also assist workers displaced by AI disruption by providing them with education and retraining for higher-paying jobs.
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Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, and Ripple have today announced the launch of a new tokenised share class of the Aviva Investors Sterling (GBP) Liquidity Fund β the firmβs largest fund with approximately Β£22 billion in assets under management.
The Fund is an Ireland-domiciled UCITS Money Markets Fund. The Fund uses the βdigital twinβ model, an approach that allows us to introduce a digital access layer, where holdings can be represented on-chain while maintaining the integrity of the existing off-chain fund structure.
The XRPL will enable Aviva Investors to reliably issue and manage the tokenised share class of the GBP Liquidity Fund using fast, secure, low-cost blockchain transactions, in an energy efficient format. Since 2012, the network has processed more than 4 billion transactions, supports nearly 8 million active wallets, and is maintained by 130+ independent validators.
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Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!
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Apple Inc. unveiled a revamped iPad mini with an OLED display, water-resistant design and faster chip, kicking off a week of product launches.
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Ripple announced new capabilities for Ripple Treasury designed to enable global businesses, including American Airlines, Trax, Christian Louboutin, Subway, Adecco and Kingfisher, to manage cash, liquidity, and payments around the clock.
Unveiled at Swell 2026, the announcement marks a significant step toward always-on corporate treasury, bringing together established treasury management functionality, AI-powered orchestration and digital rail infrastructure.
By connecting decisions with execution, Ripple Treasury helps finance teams reduce manual processes, respond faster to changing financial needs, and move toward truly always-on treasury operations.
βTreasury is moving from visibility to action, and the emerging challenge is orchestration: connecting trusted data, intelligence and the ability to move money so that better decisions turn into timely execution,β β says Kevin Permenter, Research Director of IDC.
βPlatforms that bring those layers together, rather than assembling them across providers, are addressing the constraint that matters most.βπ€
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) on Monday approved the worldβs first-ever secondary trading of tokenised public funds, reinforcing the cityβs push to build the regionβs leading ecosystem for tokenised finance.
βFor retail investors, this marks a vital upgrade in time sovereignty over fund management,β β said Katie He, head of strategic business at China Asset Management (Hong Kong), noting that trading was now available around the clock, including weekends and public holidays.
βTogether, we have proven that liquidity can be unlocked without altering the legal structure of public mutual funds or lowering investor protection standards,β β He said.
The move comes as Hong Kong authorities and financial institutions step up efforts to expand the use of tokenisation, hoping to cement the cityβs position as a fintech leader.
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Microsoft is offering buyouts to a wide swath of employees as it strives to balance a costly AI infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency. The software maker announced a new voluntary exit offer for certain workers in the U.S., Canada, India and the United Kingdom at its experience level of 70 or below.
Around 60,000 people are eligible. The effort affects about 27% of Microsoftβs total workforce of 223,000 people.
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The Canadian government started a 60-day public consultation on draft stablecoin regulations, which maintain a ban on yield payments and require non-bank issuers to deposit their reserves with Canadian financial institutions.
The draft regulations are βrequired to bring the SCA into force and would prescribe the elements needed for issuers to register with the Bank of Canada,β the government said.
Some crypto exchanges in Canada, however, are already paying rewards to stablecoin holders.
The stablecoin framework is expected to come into effect toward the end of 2027.
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Appleβs first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, hit store shelves on Friday. But some customers who were lucky enough to get the $1,999-and-up phone on its first weekend have been reporting a pretty big problem: the inner screen of the phone can break, showing horizontal bright lines emanating from the phoneβs hinge.
Apple on Monday said it was aware of the issue, which it said affected a βsmall numberβ of phones, and that it would replace the devices under its AppleCare warranty.
βWe are aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number of iPhone Duo units,β β an Apple representative said.
βIf users experience issues with their iPhone Duo display, they should contact AppleCare for a replacement.β
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A Chinese team has claimed a new world record for real-time data transfer speeds over a 24-core optical fiber cable, reaching 3.2 petabits per second β fast enough to download more than 20,000 4K movies in just one second.
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Silicon spin qubits could play a major role in the future of quantum computing because they can be produced using the same semiconductor manufacturing methods that make today's computer chips. However, researchers have faced a significant challenge.
When multiple silicon qubits are controlled at the same time, their operations tend to become less accurate. Building practical, large quantum computers will require scientists to control many qubits simultaneously while keeping errors to a minimum.
Their experiments used an array of five qubits connected to a shared microwave control line. By identifying a major cause of errors during simultaneous operation, the scientists developed a technique to reduce those errors and maintain precision.
"This shows that high-fidelity control can be maintained even when several qubits are operated at the same time and represents an important step toward scaling up silicon-based quantum processors," β Leon Camenzind, a RIKEN research scientist, said.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that Ripple has been granted final approval for chartering Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), a federally supervised national trust bank.
βFor years, weβve said crypto and banks work better together. Final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank is what that looks like in practice,β β said Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple.
βWeβve spent over a decade building regulated financial infrastructure that institutions can actually use at scale. A national trust charter gives us an even stronger foundation for RLUSD and the institutional products weβre building across payments, custody and capital markets.β
Ripple will continue to work closely with the OCC, NYDFS, and other regulators as RNTB begins operations and as the U.S. implements the regulatory framework established by the GENIUS Act.
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A US federal judge on Monday granted Alibaba Group Holding's request for a preliminary injunction, ordering the US government not to deny Pentagon βcontracts to companies because they, their parent companies or subsidiaries do business with firms that engage in βlobbying activities for the e-commerce giant.
Alibaba sued the US government in June after the Pentagon added it to a list of companies allegedly aiding China's military, alongside internet search provider Baidu, EV maker BYD and other major Chinese manufacturing and technology firms.
Monday's ruling means Alibaba will be able βto retain US lobbyists who also represent Pentagon contractors.
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Janus Henderson is launching the first-ever licensed tokenized fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 Index, marking Wall Streetβs latest push to bring traditional assets onto the digital ledger that underpins cryptocurrencies.
Janus will manage the new fund, which will trade under the ticker βJQQQβ and run on technology provided by the tokenization firm Centrifuge. It is initially available to eligible non-U.S. professional investors on the Stellar network, a blockchain focused on tokenized assets. The fund has a minimum investment of $100,000.
βBringing the Nasdaq-100 onchain with Janus Henderson and Centrifuge shows how far tokenization has come, from cash-equivalent assets to the benchmarks that define global equity markets,β β said Denelle Dixon, CEO & Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation.
βStellar was purpose-built for regulated finance, and we expect many more products like this to follow.βπ
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Defense tech startup Anduril Industries Inc. has joined forces with chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. to produce laptops that are designed and assembled in the US, an attempt to rebuild a manufacturing process that has largely moved overseas.
The companies unveiled a new product line on Tuesday called BlueChip intended to supply βAmericaβs most critical industries β including government, defense, first responders and public safety,β according to a statement.
The eventual goal is to establish an βend-to-end American supply chainβ for the laptops and, more broadly, to rebuild US computer manufacturing, the companies said.
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