Circle Internet Group (CRCL) issues USDC, a digital token backed by cash and short-term government securities and designed to maintain a value of $1. The company earns interest on the assets held behind USDC. Investors are watching whether Circle can retain more of that income as distribution costs ...
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A federal law nobody outside Wall Street noticed quietly handed one ETF a captive customer base worth tens of billions, and the buyers are not the investors you think they are.
The Tiger Global-led round values the startup at $1 billion as it wires stablecoin rails directly into a federally chartered bank, aiming to modernize the correspondent-banking plumbing behind cross-border payments.
Circle's new federal trust charter could strengthen its position in the stablecoin market while boosting institutional adoption.
The approval places Circle's USDC reserve infrastructure under direct federal oversight and allows the company to offer digital asset custody services
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The Fed's anti-money laundering rules could strengthen Circle's core business.
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The US Senate has returned from recess with the Digital Asset Clarity Act at the top of the legislative calendar, and the bill’s most consequential provision is not market structure-it is the explicit prohibition on the Federal Reserve issuing a retail Central Bank Digital Currency. That CBDC block, if enacted, ...
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing the Federal Reserve to review granting crypto f...
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