https://lecoin.news/tag/tradfi/ Traditional finance: listed stocks, preferred stock, brokerages. Le Coin. News on every corner: crypto, DeFi, and beyond. Every story names a primary source, a time and a hash. en-us https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-22-sofi-sofie-tokenized-deposit/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-22-sofi-sofie-tokenized-deposit/ SoFi's product terms describe SOFIE as a deposit liability of SoFi Bank and keep it apart from SOFID, the bank's payment stablecoin, a line the new federal stablecoin rule also draws. Markets published Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:22:55 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/standard-chartered-zodia-custody-2026-10-21/ https://lecoin.news/markets/standard-chartered-zodia-custody-2026-10-21/ The bank will fold Zodia Custody into the business that safeguards securities for its institutional clients, pending regulatory approval. No price was disclosed. Markets published Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:19:34 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/webull-kalshi-bitcoin-perps/ https://lecoin.news/markets/webull-kalshi-bitcoin-perps/ Starting in November, the broker will offer leveraged, no-expiry crypto contracts listed and cleared by Kalshi, beginning with bitcoin. Markets published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:13:56 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/fidelity-perpetual-preferred-btc/ https://lecoin.news/markets/fidelity-perpetual-preferred-btc/ Fidelity Digital Assets counts 135,979 bitcoin bought with money raised from a new kind of income stock. The model works only while bitcoin outruns the payouts. Markets published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:13:09 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/mastercard-agent-pay-machines/ https://lecoin.news/markets/mastercard-agent-pay-machines/ In early access, Agent Pay for Machines puts Mastercard's permission layer on top of an open web payment protocol, with settlement on Base and through BVNK. Markets published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:51:50 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/wgc-bcg-digital-gold-report/ https://lecoin.news/markets/wgc-bcg-digital-gold-report/ A World Gold Council and BCG report sizes digital gold at $45 billion to $55 billion today and calls a $700 billion figure latent demand, not a forecast. Markets published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:44:08 -0400 https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/okxice-objecting-issuers-16/ https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/okxice-objecting-issuers-16/ The ICE and OKX venue's Oct. 19 notice lists 16 companies refusing tokenized versions of their shares, up from nine four days earlier. All seven new names were on its planned menu. Protocols & Policy published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:42:52 -0400 https://lecoin.news/briefs/morning-brief-2026-10-20/ https://lecoin.news/briefs/morning-brief-2026-10-20/ J.P. Morgan Asset Management put a long-term return range on bitcoin for the first time while keeping it out of its main risk models, the SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets comment period closes today, and bitcoin was at $81,471.27 at 6:05 a.m. ET, 0.40% below Monday's 4:00 p.m. ET close, per CoinGecko. Briefs published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:35:04 -0400 https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/sparkassen-deka-crypto-trading/ https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/sparkassen-deka-crypto-trading/ DekaBank's "Krypto – powered by Deka" puts five cryptocurrencies inside the Sparkasse app, rolling out bank by bank over the coming months at 0.99 euros an order. Protocols & Policy published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:34:30 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/jpm-ltcma-2027-bitcoin/ https://lecoin.news/markets/jpm-ltcma-2027-bitcoin/ The 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions add a bitcoin return forecast but keep it out of the main portfolio math, citing unstable correlations. Markets published Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:15:20 -0400 https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-19/ https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-19/ JPMorgan's Kinexys page now lists its JPM Coin deposit token as issued on Ethereum as well as Base, Mesh said wallet crypto will be spendable wherever Visa is accepted, and bitcoin was at $81,798.63 at the 4:00 p.m. ET close of the US session, 0.36% above Friday's close after giving back most of its morning gain, per CoinGecko. Briefs published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:18:49 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/blackrock-bitcoin-managed-protection-etf/ https://lecoin.news/markets/blackrock-bitcoin-managed-protection-etf/ A new iShares filing describes a fund that would buy and sell options on BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF to cap both gains and losses; its fee, exchange and caps are not yet disclosed. Markets published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:57:40 -0400 https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/ramp-trust-charter-icba-occ/ https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/ramp-trust-charter-icba-occ/ The spend-management company has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank. Community bankers want a judge to throw out the rule behind those charters. Protocols & Policy published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:49:13 -0400 https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/cme-cftc-perpetuals-suit/ https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/cme-cftc-perpetuals-suit/ CME is suing its regulator to have crypto perpetuals treated as swaps. The CFTC's reply says CME's crypto futures volumes rose after the policy, so CME has no injury to sue over. Protocols & Policy published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:31:41 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/mesh-visa-wallet-spend/ https://lecoin.news/markets/mesh-visa-wallet-spend/ Mesh says participating wallet apps will let users pay from crypto and stablecoin balances wherever Visa is accepted, with no card for the user to sign up for and nothing new for merchants to install. Markets published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:17:27 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/okxice-issuer-vetoes/ https://lecoin.news/markets/okxice-issuer-vetoes/ The SEC's tokenized-stock exemption gives issuers 30 days to object, and the objection list at the ICE and OKX venue grew from one to nine in 11 days, the venue's notices show. Markets published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:50:32 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/strategy-preferred-buyback-3b/ https://lecoin.news/markets/strategy-preferred-buyback-3b/ Strategy's board added $1 billion to its preferred stock buyback after a third straight week of more than $175 million in STRC repurchases, its Oct. 19 filing shows, leaving $1.16 billion of room. Markets published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:50:31 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/deposit-rates-stablecoin-growth/ https://lecoin.news/markets/deposit-rates-stablecoin-growth/ A BIS working paper finds stablecoin growth slows when US deposit rates rise, and that banks reprice more aggressively once the Fed's rate tops about 3%, ahead of the Fed's Oct. 27-28 meeting. Markets published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:50:30 -0400 https://lecoin.news/briefs/morning-brief-2026-10-19/ https://lecoin.news/briefs/morning-brief-2026-10-19/ The CFTC's exclusion of sportsbook and casino bets from its swap definition takes effect today with its Federal Register publication, starting a comment period through Nov. 18 on it and a companion event-contract proposal, while bitcoin sits 1.30% above Friday's 4:00 p.m. ET level on CoinGecko data after a Sunday-afternoon dip. Briefs published Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:01:14 -0400 https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-16/ https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-16/ Bitcoin was at $81,506.05 at the 4:00 p.m. ET close of the US session, 0.98% below Thursday at the same time and its lowest 4:00 p.m. ET level since Sept. 20, per CoinGecko; the CFTC's event-contract proposal and casino-style rule are set to publish in Monday's Federal Register; and Schwab said its crypto accounts are now open to all eligible retail clients. Briefs published Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:36:34 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-16-jack-henry-gcul-tokenized-deposits/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-16-jack-henry-gcul-tokenized-deposits/ The core banking provider says it will be the first to integrate with Google Cloud Universal Ledger, giving community banks and credit unions a path to tokenized deposits. No launch date or client names were given. Markets published Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:30:00 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-16-schwab-crypto-expansion/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-16-schwab-crypto-expansion/ Schwab says every eligible retail client can now open a Schwab Crypto account, a day after its earnings release cited plans to expand digital assets; New York and Louisiana residents remain excluded. Markets published Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:26:00 -0400 https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/2026-10-16-japan-megabanks-yen-stablecoin-poc/ https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/2026-10-16-japan-megabanks-yen-stablecoin-poc/ SMBC, Mizuho and MUFG say a July trial confirmed that several banks can issue one yen stablecoin together and use it for cross-border company payments. Protocols & Policy published Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:26:05 -0400 https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-15/ https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-15/ Bitcoin was at $82,308.83 at the 4:00 p.m. ET close of the U.S. session, 0.69% above Wednesday at the same time, per CoinGecko, after September PPI printed the largest monthly rise since March 2022; Visa put Visa Direct USDC prefunding into commercial deployment with Inyo Global; and Cross River integrated Ripple's RLUSD into its core banking system. Briefs published Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:45:46 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-15-cross-river-rlusd/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-15-cross-river-rlusd/ Cross River says fintechs will reach Ripple's dollar stablecoin on the XRP Ledger through the same API they use for ACH, wires and real-time payments, though no availability date, volumes or fees were given. Markets published Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:23:15 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-15-ripple-prime-rwa-perps/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-15-ripple-prime-rwa-perps/ Ripple Prime, acting as principal, now offers swaps that reference Trade.xyz perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, traded around the clock with cross-margin and RLUSD collateral where available. Markets published Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:22:44 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-15-mastercard-bvnk-global-money-platform/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-15-mastercard-bvnk-global-money-platform/ The Global Money Platform puts fiat and stablecoin accounts, conversion, stablecoin-linked cards and bank payouts behind one API, after Mastercard's August acquisition of BVNK. Markets published Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:20:44 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-tron-inc-atm/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-tron-inc-atm/ An 8-K accepted at 5:28 p.m. ET and a prospectus supplement at 5:30 p.m. ET let the TRX treasury company sell stock from time to time, mainly to buy more TRX. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:50:33 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-metaplanet-converts-buyback/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-metaplanet-converts-buyback/ A ¥52 billion Euro-yen bond would repay ¥23.6 billion of BTC-collateralized borrowing and fund buybacks under a new ¥60 billion program. U.S. investors are excluded. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:21:10 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-prometheum-federated-hermes/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-prometheum-federated-hermes/ The plan routes custody, clearing and settlement through Prometheum's SEC-registered broker-dealer, but no fund or chain is named and the first product is targeted for Q1 2027. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:16:55 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-riot-bitgo-custody/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-riot-bitgo-custody/ An 8-K filed at 4:30 p.m. ET says BitGo Bank & Trust will hold Riot's digital assets and cash under a one-year deal Riot can exit on 14 days' notice. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:55:18 -0400 https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-14/ https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-14/ Bitcoin closed the U.S. session at $81,797.60 on Coinbase, 1.71% below Tuesday, after a hotter September CPI print; Cipher Digital priced $850.0 million of 0.00% converts due 2032; and the European Banking Authority classified Circle's USDC as the EU's first significant e-money token under MiCA. Briefs published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:29:13 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-qivalis-dnb-emi-licence/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-qivalis-dnb-emi-licence/ Qivalis said on Oct. 14 that De Nederlandsche Bank has authorised it as an electronic money institution, a step it needs to issue a bank-backed euro token. Qivalis says issuance is planned to begin within the next months, subject to MiCA requirements and publication of its white paper. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:23:36 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-drivewealth-ripple-rlusd/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-drivewealth-ripple-rlusd/ DriveWealth and Ripple said on Oct. 14 they are partnering on stablecoin settlement, payments and custody, while an equity-financing tie-up through Ripple Prime remains only under exploration. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:49:23 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-binance-bstocks-listings/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-binance-bstocks-listings/ Four more ADGM-prospectus bStocks, BBB, MDBB, PENGB and UVXYB, opened for Spot and Convert trading at 8:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 14 and were added the same hour as Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin collateral, extending Binance’s Oct. 7 tokenized-securities wave. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:43:33 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-evernorth-xrp-execution-partners/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-evernorth-xrp-execution-partners/ Evernorth said on Oct. 14 it will both accumulate and deploy from its 473 million XRP treasury with four institutional partners starting in the fourth quarter, subject to closing conditions and approvals. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:31:55 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-payward-saldo-bank/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-payward-saldo-bank/ Payward said Oct. 14 it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Saldo Finance Oy, owner of Lithuania-licensed Saldo Bank UAB. Closing is expected in 2027, subject to regulatory approvals; terms were not disclosed. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:29:56 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-strive-btc-warrants/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-strive-btc-warrants/ In an 8-K filed Oct. 14, Strive said holders exercised all remaining PIPE traditional warrants for expected gross proceeds of $369.2 million, and that it bought 2,822 bitcoin at about $83,266 each, both from Oct. 12 through Oct. 13. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:23:19 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-blackrock-q3-digital-asset-flows/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-14-blackrock-q3-digital-asset-flows/ BlackRock's Q3 earnings release, filed as an 8-K exhibit Oct. 14, shows digital-asset AUM rising to $79.6 billion from $48.8 billion, on $7.9 billion of net inflows and $22.9 billion of market gains, all in ETFs. Markets published Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:24:05 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-13-cipher-project-compass/ https://lecoin.news/markets/2026-10-13-cipher-project-compass/ Cipher Digital priced $850 million of 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2032 at an initial conversion price of about $15.31, a 35% premium, with settlement scheduled for Oct. 16, according to an 8-K filed Oct. 14. Markets published Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:26:36 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/bank-earnings-digital-assets-2026-10-13/ https://lecoin.news/markets/bank-earnings-digital-assets-2026-10-13/ Wells Fargo said on its third-quarter call that it is establishing a new company with 20 other international financial institutions to issue stablecoins beginning in the first half of 2027, while Citi said stablecoins are 'a bit more clunky' than tokenized deposits, according to call transcripts. Markets published Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:10:49 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/bitmine-eth-share-2026-10-13/ https://lecoin.news/markets/bitmine-eth-share-2026-10-13/ BitMine's weekly filing puts its ether at 6,028,946 tokens, which it says is 4.9% of supply, with 5,067,309 staked, the same staked figure it has reported in each of its last nine weekly filings. Markets published Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:47:12 -0400 https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/2026-10-13-strategy-bitcoin-banking-index/ https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/2026-10-13-strategy-bitcoin-banking-index/ Strategy's Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index, posted to its investor relations page on Oct. 12, scores 25 banks and puts Fidelity first at 77%. The company scores itself into the method: three of the 15 dimensions score lending against its MSTR stock and STRC preferred, or products built on STRC. Protocols & Policy published Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:01:54 -0400 https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/2026-10-13-kraken-vara-licence/ https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/2026-10-13-kraken-vara-licence/ Kraken's parent Payward says Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority gave it Full Market Approval, and VARA's public register shows an active licence for Payward FZCO, issued Oct. 6, for two activities. Protocols & Policy published Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:53:33 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/securitize-citi-downgrade-2026-10-13/ https://lecoin.news/markets/securitize-citi-downgrade-2026-10-13/ Citi moved Securitize from Buy to Neutral on Oct. 13 and lifted its price target from $10 to $14, The Fly reports. Neither Citi nor Securitize has confirmed the change, and Le Coin has not seen the note. Markets published Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:24:06 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/fidelity-ark-drove-btc-etf-outflows-2026-10-13/ https://lecoin.news/markets/fidelity-ark-drove-btc-etf-outflows-2026-10-13/ Two of the 12 US spot bitcoin ETFs accounted for 86.5% of last week's net outflow, according to Farside Investors' flow compilation, while BlackRock's fund took in $1.1 million net after swinging both ways. Markets published Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:10:39 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/strategy-strc-buybacks-2026-10-06/ https://lecoin.news/markets/strategy-strc-buybacks-2026-10-06/ The company added 334 BTC to reach 848,000, bought back its own preferred stock, and called a vote on daily dividends. Markets published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:09:41 -0400 https://lecoin.news/learning-hub/robinhood-chain/ https://lecoin.news/learning-hub/robinhood-chain/ Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 (L2) blockchain built by Robinhood Markets using Arbitrum technology. Learning Hub published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:05:12 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/bybit-us-stocks-stablecoin-alpaca-2026-10-12/ https://lecoin.news/markets/bybit-us-stocks-stablecoin-alpaca-2026-10-12/ Bybit says eligible users outside the US and the other jurisdictions excluded by the product terms can now buy more than 1,000 US stocks and ETFs with USDC, routed through a Mauritius-licensed broker and held at Alpaca in that broker's name. Markets published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:34:40 -0400 https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/2026-10-12-dtcc-tokenization-service/ https://lecoin.news/protocols-policy/2026-10-12-dtcc-tokenization-service/ The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation says its DTC subsidiary will launch tokens of the stocks, ETFs and Treasuries it holds in October 2026, under an SEC staff letter that limits the assets, the users and the term to three years from launch. Protocols & Policy published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:34:40 -0400 https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-12/ https://lecoin.news/briefs/evening-brief-2026-10-12/ Bitcoin ended the U.S. session 0.59% above Friday's close on Coinbase after fading from its morning level, Evernorth's shares touched $19.38 before closing down 1.05%, per Nasdaq, and Farside had not yet published Monday's spot-ETF flows at 4:22 p.m. ET. Briefs published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:53:29 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/standard-chartered-rlusd-custody-lmax-collateral-2026-10-12/ https://lecoin.news/markets/standard-chartered-rlusd-custody-lmax-collateral-2026-10-12/ Standard Chartered says custody of Ripple's RLUSD is live through its Dubai branch and that it plans to let the tokens back trades at LMAX without leaving the bank, subject to documentation, testing and approvals, with no date given. Markets published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:06:08 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/token2049-singapore-2026-takeaways/ https://lecoin.news/markets/token2049-singapore-2026-takeaways/ A venue co-owned by NYSE's parent published its trading rules, Samsung set a late-October date for USDC transfers, and Securitize says its tokenized US stocks are live on Solana. Markets published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:19:01 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/figure-q3-volume-ylds-2026-10-09/ https://lecoin.news/markets/figure-q3-volume-ylds-2026-10-09/ Figure's preliminary numbers put Q3 marketplace volume at $5.119 billion, which it calls "the high end" of its guidance, while the balance of its yield-bearing YLDS certificates fell over the quarter; four days before those numbers, Figure filed a shelf registration with no size attached. Markets published Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:03:00 -0400 https://lecoin.news/markets/securitize-stock-entitlements-2026-10-09/ https://lecoin.news/markets/securitize-stock-entitlements-2026-10-09/ Securitize says its new tokenized stocks are security entitlements held at its broker-dealer; the terms come from the company's press release and product page, and no EDGAR filing describes them. Markets published Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:50:00 -0400