Blackrock’s new spot ETF is about to change banking forever
It’s November, the holidays are just around the corner, Custodia Bank has just launched its Bitcoin custody platform, and Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty by jury for all ...
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Adaptation or extinction: Dollars in a digital asset era
In a world where the almighty US Dollar is teetering on the financial abyss, its worth eroded by inflation and the reckless proliferation of money to cover ever-escalating national debts, ...
Preserving deposits in the digital asset era
It’s happening now. The financial world is finally transforming, leaving behind the era of the electronic dollar. The age of ‘streaming money’ has arrived. Neo banks and crypto networks ...
St. Cloud Financial Credit Union builds a bridge between TradFi and DeFi
When people think about digital assets, distributed ledgers, crypto, or the new world of tokenized payments, top of mind are “the fraudsters, the start-ups, the fly-by-night FTX-type situations.” Yet, “those ...
Shot to the core
Working with a group of credit union leaders last week, hacking our way through the weeds of the exciting world of core selection, core conversion, and vendor consolidation, one of ...
Navigating the new normal: How to survive a world filled with CBDCs, DLTs, and BTCs
Here we are, nearly halfway through the year, and more than a few notable events have transpired. For starters, the second largest bank failure in history happened, not once, but ...