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A coordinated global regulatory shift and institutional investment in infrastructure are accelerating stablecoins toward mainstream adoption, reshaping how digital money functions at scale. Mastercard shared on July 17 in a post authored by Jesse McWaters, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Policy, that stablecoins are moving closer to mass-market use as legal clarity and technical integration align.
The U.S. Congress’s approval of the GENIUS Act, alongside the now-active European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, has created a regulatory foundation that encourages adoption. Countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates are implementing similar frameworks, forming a global blueprint. Mastercard stated:
Mass adoption, however, depends on more than legal structure—it requires infrastructure that supports security, trust, and ease of use. Mastercard highlighted how stablecoins are already facilitating faster, lower-cost cross-border payments and enabling flexible compensation for gig workers and content creators. Yet to expand beyond niche use, McWaters explained they “need to be embedded in systems that people trust,” emphasizing the need for built-in user protections and cross-platform operability.
The goal is to make stablecoin use as seamless and dependable as mainstream payment methods.
To that end, Mastercard has developed products like the Mastercard Multi-Token Network and Mastercard Crypto Credential to support stablecoin transactions at scale. These tools are built to manage settlement, enhance safety, and ensure compliance, enabling stablecoins to operate within global financial norms. McWaters concluded:
Despite ongoing scrutiny of crypto markets, Mastercard’s structured approach demonstrates how digital assets can become part of everyday commerce under the right regulatory and technical conditions.
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The agreement necessitates firms restructure reward programs from a "buy and hold" to a "buy and use" model; however, CCI raised concerns over its broad prohibition.
It carves out rewards programs tied to "bona fide activities or bona fide transactions," and directs Treasury and the CFTC to write rules within a year of enactment.
Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger called the deal a step in the right direction.
We commend Senators Tillis and Alsobrooks for their leadership in reaching this agreement," Mersinger said. "Every day without a clear legal framework is an invitation for top-tier talent, capital, and innovative companies to locate elsewhere."
The Crypto Council for Innovation endorsed the bill while flagging concerns. Its CEO Ji Hun Kim said the new language extends the prohibition framework well beyond last year's GENIUS Act, which barred only issuers from paying rewards.
CCI has been clear that we disagree with assertions about deposit flight concerns from stablecoin adoption," Kim wrote on X. The text, he said, "goes VERY FAR beyond" the GENIUS Act by applying to all digital asset market participants.
Kim urged the committee to advance the bill anyway. "The north star is to ensure that the U.S. can lead on crypto–this is the future. We respectfully ask Senate Banking to move to mark up. The time is now,” he wrote.
Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte, whose firm issues the USDC and EURC stablecoins, endorsed the deal without qualification.
Today's compromise on stablecoin yield marks meaningful progress in the CLARITY Act negotiations," Disparte said. He pointed to USDC's growth in cross-border payments, capital markets collateral and agentic commerce.
The United States faces a clear choice in digital assets: lead or be led," he said. “Today’s progress is an encouraging signal that the U.S. is choosing to lead.”
Coinbase had the most at stake in the negotiations. CEO Brian Armstrong posted "Mark it up" after the text dropped. Chief legal officer Paul Grewal said the language preserves activity-based rewards tied to real participation on crypto platforms, which is what the bank lobby had asked for.
The Senate Banking Committee postponed an earlier CLARITY Act markup in January. Other negotiation points remain unresolved, but the yield language has largely been the greatest obstacle.
Firms will need to restructure rewards programs from a "buy and hold" model to a "buy and use" one to comply with the transaction caveats.
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HKMA teams up with mainland regulators to develop a cross-border platform linking cargo data and electronic bills of lading, aiming to cut trade finance friction and plug Chinese supply chains into global markets
The MoU signals growing adoption of bitcoin in real-world plumbing, targeting $1.5 trillion in annual cargo finance where paper work and jams still cost a lot in delays in fraud.
By plugging mainland cargo data into Hong Kong’s international-facing infrastructure, officials aim to reduce friction in cross-border trade while reinforcing the city’s status as the primary conduit between China and global capital markets.
Under the agreement, the parties will study the creation of a cross-border platform under the HKMA’s Project Ensemble framework. The initiative will explore the use of electronic bills of lading and blockchain-based documentation to streamline trade finance, while connecting with Hong Kong’s Commercial Data Interchange and CargoX to facilitate secure data sharing.
For Hong Kong, the move extends its digital asset strategy beyond tokenized green bonds and into the real economy. Instead of focusing solely on sovereign issuance or crypto markets, regulators are targeting the operational bottlenecks in cargo finance, where paper documents, fragmented data, and manual verification continue to slow credit decisions.
If successful, the platform could embed Hong Kong deeper into mainland supply chains while offering international investors and banks a compliant gateway to Chinese trade data. In doing so, the city is attempting to turn blockchain from a pilot project into core cross-border financial infrastructure.
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WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the ​U.S., according to three people familiar with the matter.
Trump, a Republican, paused refugee admissions from around the world when he took office in January 2025. Weeks later, ‌he issued an executive order prioritizing the resettlement of European-descended Afrikaners, saying they faced race-based persecution in majority-Black South Africa. South Africa’s government vehemently denies the claims.
The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program was formally established in 1980 after hundreds of thousands of people fled wars in Vietnam and Cambodia. The program expanded to provide safe haven to persecuted people around the globe. Trump has used it almost exclusively to bring white South Africans into the U.S., ​part of a broader upending of norms around humanitarian protection, opens new tab.
In recent weeks, U.S. officials have discussed expanding the 7,500-person refugee cap by 10,000 to allow more South Africans of ​Afrikaner ethnicity to obtain refugee status, said people familiar with internal planning, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share non-public government discussions.
On Thursday, Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Veprek said an increase in the refugee limit was being considered, but did not provide details. "We're looking ​at the pace of resettlement right now and thinking about how quickly it's going, and do we need to increase the ceiling for the current fiscal year as well," he said at ​an event hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports lower levels of immigration.
The ⁠White House referred questions to the U.S. State Department.
Blacks make up 81% of South Africa's population, according to 2022 census data. Afrikaners and other white South Africans constitute 7% of the population.
During the apartheid era, which ended with the first democratic elections in 1994, South Africa maintained a racially segregated society with separate schools, neighborhoods and public facilities for people classified as Black, colored, white or Asian.
Trump set the record-low refugee ceiling of 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, which began October 1, 2025, ‌down from ⁠a ceiling of 125,000 a year under former President Joe Biden.
The U.S. ​admitted about 4,500 South Africans as refugees through the first six months of the fiscal year, State Department figures show, on pace to exceed Trump’s existing limits for the program. The only ​refugees other than white South Africans to enter this fiscal year were three Afghans, according to State Department statistics.
U.S. officials are weighing whether religious minorities from Iran and countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union could be included under what’s known as the “Lautenberg” program, the person said. The program stems from a 1989 budget amendment introduced by then-U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg that aimed to make it easier for Jewish refugees to resettle in the U.S.
The Trump administration is also discussing bringing in refugees of other nationalities, one of the people familiar with planning said.
Even as ​Trump looks to further ramp up the entry ​of South Africans, an internal U.S. government ⁠email reviewed by Reuters showed that at least four refugees already in the U.S. have returned to South Africa.
One South African who arrived in Minneapolis in late January departed the U.S. less than a month later, the email showed. Case notes said that plans for his daughter and ​grandchildren to join him “fell through” so he returned to his home country.
A pair of South Africans who arrived in Twin Falls, Idaho, in ​late January via the ⁠refugee program turned around a week later, saying a parent was ill in South Africa, the email showed
Another South African resettled in Moline, Illinois, in mid-March returned home weeks later, the email said.
Resettlement occurred quickly, she had not thoroughly thought through the process, and her family in South Africa has decided not to continue their own resettlement process,” case notes said. “Additionally, the client’s age (66) and ability to provide ⁠for herself is ​a concern.”
Trump has portrayed South Africa as dangerous and oppressive for whites, yet thousands of white South Africans abroad have ​returned to the country in recent years, Reuters reported in March.
U.S. government contracting documents reported by Reuters in February said the U.S. aimed to process 4,500 white South Africans per month through the refugee program. The documents also said the ​State Department paid to install more than a dozen trailers on embassy property in Pretoria to conduct interviews.
Reporting by Ted Hesson; Additional reporting by Jonathan Landay; Editing by Craig Timberg and David Gregorio
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