Tether Teams Up With Private Bank For USD Transfer Handling – Report

Tether, the company behind the prominent stablecoin USDT, holds $72.5 billion worth of US Treasury bills (T-bill). This development was revealed initially in the company’s assurance report for Q2 2023. However, Tether’s Chief Technology Officer, Paolo Ardoino, on September 5, emphasized this fact on social media platform X.  Related Reading: Tether Teams Up With Private […]

Tether chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino claimed CBDCs would primarily replace the age-old payment systems and utilize private blockchain as a modern and cost-controlled tech infrastructure. Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer at Tether, believes that the growing developments around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) globally wouldn’t really impact the role of private stablecoins.Ardoino shared his two cents in a Twitter thread on the growing discussion around CBDCs and what their role could be in the current payment system. He said CBDCs would only replace the age-old....

Tether Limited has released an assurance report reviewed by Moore Cayman, an auditor of investment funds and digital assets. The report provides a breakdown of the company’s assets and reserves which Moore Cayman claims are around $62.7 billion as of June 30. Tether Publishes Assurance Report On August 9, 2021, Tether’s chief technology officer tweeted that the company had published the firm’s “latest attestation” and a detailed “breakdown of reserves.” “Guess what? Tether is fully backed,” Tether’s CTO Paolo Ardoino said.....

Tether has announced that the company’s stablecoin USDT will be available at 24,000 ATMs across Brazil, starting from the 3rd of next month. 24,000 ATMs In Brazil Will Offer Tether USDT Conversions Starting 3 November As per an announcement on the firm’s website, the Brazilian crypto services provider SmartPay will be handling the USDT roll […]

The move comes as the Bank of Japan wants to roll out a digital yen CBDC by the end of next year. According to The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), one of the world's largest financial newspapers and the entity behind the Nikkei 225 stock index, Japan's Financial Services Agency, or FSA, will propose legislation next year restricting stablecoin issuance to only bank and wire transfer companies. Theoretically, this would prevent entities such as Tether (USDT), which does not operate as a bank and is only regulated in the British Virgin Islands, from conducting business with Japanese....