In July 2025, Standard Chartered became the first major bank to enable spot trading of cryptocurrencies. Winters and De Giorgi say they are taking necessary steps at a moment of transformation for global finance. When I look at the way our financial markets business has evolved in response to shifting client needs, there's a constant need to innovate, the constant need to innovate in terms of payment systems.And there's the big one that that's being. It's getting a lot of airtime now, which is, you know, ar ...

🥳 Proud to be part of the Ethereum World’s Fair in Buenos Aires.🧑‍💻 Catch us in the Defi district where we'll be showing builders and the crypto community the power of data using https://t.co/dJXJrTzfae tools!Devconnect ARG - the first Ethereum World’s Fair (@EFDevcon):Step into the DeFi district at the Ethereum World’s Fair, and experience what happens when finance runs onchain, without banks.Meet the teams behind the stablecoins, lending protocols, and payment systems redefining money today.Here is 2/2 of ...

RT Leon Waidmann 🔥 (@LeonWaidmann)🚨 Ethereum just broke another record! 🚨Layer 2 networks processed 25M transactions in a single day – a new all-time high.📈Add Ethereum mainnet (L1), and the ecosystem hit nearly 27M daily transactions.👉 That’s already bigger than many national payment systems:🇬🇧 UK Faster Payments ~11M/day🇩🇪 girocard ~22M/day🇫🇷 Cartes Bancaires ~40M/day (slightly higher)🇯🇵 Zengin ~7–8M/dayMind-blowing.🤯🌍 Still smaller than the very largest payment systems:🇮🇳 UPI ~650M/day🇨🇳 UnionPay & mobil ...