📅 ISO 20022: A key deadline is approaching for cross-border payments.
From November 2026, fully unstructured postal addresses will no longer be supported in CBPR+ messages – payments risk being rejected or delayed if not compliant.
This change is a community‑driven standards evolution, endorsed through the formal maintenance process and country vote, and directly supports the G20 goals of improving data quality and transparency in cross‑border payments.
Prepare early and ensure data readiness: https://t.co/lUAMBURqow
#CrossBorderPayments #ISO20022
🇨🇳 BIG: China's digital yuan operation centre signs agreements with 26 financial institutions to expand cross-border payments and push global adoption of the digital yuan, per Reuters.
🇺🇸 UPDATE: Wednesday's Clarity Act meeting brought together White House officials, lawmakers, and law enforcement groups.
Discussions focused on the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act and crypto crime enforcement tools, per Eleanor Terrett.
BREAKING: Ripple has launched a developer toolkit for building agentic payment apps on the XRP Ledger.
It supports autonomous AI transactions using $XRP and $RLUSD.
🇺🇸 LATEST: Stand With Crypto and more than 200 companies and organizations have signed a letter urging Senate leaders to bring the Clarity Act to the Senate floor.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Former President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, says "fiat is a sham, the banking class is corrupt."
"Decentralized digital currency and the blockchain are the inevitable future."
The demand for modern, always-on settlement infrastructure continues to grow.
@Mastercard’s support for $RLUSD and the XRP Ledger reflects growing demand for trusted digital assets and blockchain infrastructure that can power faster, more flexible settlement.
🔥 NEW: Mastercard expands stablecoin settlement support with USDC, RLUSD, PYUSD, USDG, USDP and SoFiUSD across Ethereum, Solana, XRP Ledger, Base, Arbitrum and Polygon.
🇹🇷 JUST IN: Ripple expands its USD-backed stablecoin RLUSD to Türkiye through partnerships with BiLira, Bitexen, and Bitlo, giving Turkish institutions access to enterprise-grade dollar liquidity.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC Chair Paul Atkins says he is confident Congress will pass crypto market structure legislation and President Trump will sign it into law.