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 ...

Event Participation - The company is participating in the Ethereum World's Fair in Buenos Aires [1] - The company will showcase data tools to builders and the crypto community in the DeFi district [1] DeFi Focus - The Ethereum World's Fair features a DeFi district focused on onchain finance [1] - The DeFi district includes teams behind stablecoins, lending protocols, and payment systems [1][2]

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 ...