Tether Teams Up With Private Bank For USD Transfer Handling – Report
Tether, the prominent stablecoin issuer behind USDT, has taken a strategic step by enlisting the services of Britannia Bank & Trust, a private financial institution based in the Bahamas. This move comes as Tether seeks to enhance its dollar transfer processes, and it appears the partnership has been discreetly underway for the past few months. […]
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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....