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Stablecoins News 27 October 2025 - 18 December 2025

USD Coin (USDC-USD) Price Today and Forecast: USDC Holds Near $1 as New U.S. Rules, Visa Settlement, and Bank Adoption Reshape 2026 Outlook

USD Coin (USDC-USD) Price Today and Forecast: USDC Holds Near $1 as New U.S. Rules, Visa Settlement, and Bank Adoption Reshape 2026 Outlook

December 18, 2025 — USD Coin (USDC-USD) is doing exactly what a fiat-backed stablecoin was designed to do: hover extremely close to $1.00. But while the price barely moves, the story around USDC is moving fast this week—driven by U.S. regulation, big payment-network integration, and a widening race among banks and fintechs to issue “digital dollars” at scale. fdic.gov+3CoinGecko+3CoinDesk+3 USDC-USD price today: around $1.00, with tiny “micro-wobbles” As of Thursday, December 18, 2025, USDC is trading essentially flat around the peg: Those small dips below $1 (like $0.9998) are normal market “plumbing” effects: liquidity, fees, and localized supply/demand on exchanges.
18 December 2025
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Tether USDT-USD Price Today and Forecast for December 18, 2025

Tether USDT-USD Price Today and Forecast for December 18, 2025

Tether USDt (USDT), the world’s largest U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoin, is doing exactly what it was engineered to do today: stick close to $1. As of December 18, 2025, major price trackers show USDT-USD hovering around $1.00, with tiny intraday deviations that look dramatic only if you zoom in with a microscope. CoinGecko has USDT at about $0.9996, while MetaMask displays $1.00—a difference that mostly reflects venue, liquidity, and timestamp rather than a meaningful “move.” CoinGecko+1 That said, “stable” doesn’t mean “uninteresting.” Today’s USDT story is less about the price tick and more about what’s happening around the peg: stablecoins are
18 December 2025
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USDC-USD Price Today (Dec. 17, 2025): USD Coin Holds the $1 Peg as Visa Expands USDC Settlement — Forecast and What Comes Next

USDC-USD Price Today (Dec. 17, 2025): USD Coin Holds the $1 Peg as Visa Expands USDC Settlement — Forecast and What Comes Next

USD Coin (USDC-USD) is doing what it was built to do on December 17, 2025: trade extremely close to $1.00. At the time of writing, CoinGecko shows USDC at about $0.9999 with a tight 24-hour range roughly between ~$0.9987 and ~$1.00—a small band that reflects normal liquidity and exchange-to-exchange differences, not “volatility” in the way traders think about Bitcoin or Ethereum. CoinGecko Meanwhile, CoinMarketCap also keeps USDC essentially at par, listing the token around $0.9997 and placing 24-hour trading volume in the low tens of billions (a reminder that stablecoins are used heavily as “cash legs” across exchanges and settlement
17 December 2025
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Visa Stock (NYSE: V) Today: Stablecoin Advisory Launch, Dubai Travel Push, and Wall Street’s 2026 Outlook (Dec. 15, 2025)

Visa Stock (NYSE: V) Today: Stablecoin Advisory Launch, Dubai Travel Push, and Wall Street’s 2026 Outlook (Dec. 15, 2025)

Visa Inc. stock is back in the spotlight on Monday, December 15, 2025, as investors digest two fresh company updates that sit at the heart of Visa’s long-term growth story: digital money movement (stablecoins) and global travel spending. Add in a string of recent analyst upgrades and a still-evolving swipe-fee settlement narrative, and Visa stock has plenty of moving parts heading into 2026. Visa shares traded around $347 intraday, within a roughly $344–$350 range, and remain below their 52-week high near the mid-$370s. Visa Investor Relations Visa stock price check: where shares stand on Dec. 15, 2025 As of Monday’s
15 December 2025
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Payments & Fintech US Stocks Week Ahead: Visa’s Stablecoin Re-Rating, PayPal’s Checkout Crunch, and the Post-Fed Data Wave (Dec 15–19, 2025)

Payments & Fintech US Stocks Week Ahead: Visa’s Stablecoin Re-Rating, PayPal’s Checkout Crunch, and the Post-Fed Data Wave (Dec 15–19, 2025)

Updated: December 14, 2025 US-listed payments and fintech stocks head into the next trading week with two forces pulling in opposite directions: a Federal Reserve that just delivered another rate cut — but is signaling patience from here — and a market bracing for a backlog of delayed economic reports that could quickly rewrite the “soft landing vs. slowdown” narrative. Reuters+1 That setup matters more than usual for this corner of the market. Payments names (Visa, Mastercard, Global Payments, Fiserv, FIS, Shift4, Toast) and consumer-fintech platforms (PayPal, Block, SoFi, Affirm, Robinhood, Coinbase, Chime, Klarna, Circle) sit at the intersection of
14 December 2025
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Interactive Brokers (IBKR) Stock This Week: Stablecoin Funding, Global Expansion, and What to Watch Next Week (Updated Dec. 12, 2025)

Interactive Brokers (IBKR) Stock This Week: Stablecoin Funding, Global Expansion, and What to Watch Next Week (Updated Dec. 12, 2025)

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR) closed Friday, Dec. 12 at $64.15, ending a volatile session down about 2.9% after swinging from roughly $66.00 at the high to $62.58 at the low. StockInvest The week’s price action landed as investors tried to square three overlapping storylines: (1) a shifting U.S. rate outlook after the Federal Reserve’s latest move, (2) company headlines that broaden Interactive Brokers’ global footprint, and (3) rising attention on how brokers may integrate crypto rails—most notably via stablecoins—into traditional brokerage funding. Below is what mattered for IBKR stock this week, what analysts are forecasting now, and what
13 December 2025
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Fintech Innovation on December 3, 2025: AI Marketplaces, Stablecoins, QR Payments and New Rules Redefine Finance

Fintech Innovation on December 3, 2025: AI Marketplaces, Stablecoins, QR Payments and New Rules Redefine Finance

On December 3, 2025, the global fintech landscape is moving on several fronts at once: AI is being baked into core infrastructure, stablecoins and QR codes are turning cross‑border payments into real‑time experiences, regulators are tightening cybersecurity and data rules, and investors are still writing big checks for niche specialists from home equity to prediction markets. Here’s a deep dive into today’s key fintech headlines and what they reveal about where financial innovation is headed next. 1. AI Becomes Plumbing, Not Hype, in Bank–Fintech Partnerships One of today’s most telling launches comes from the embedded finance world. Treasury Prime, a
3 December 2025
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XRP Price Today, December 1, 2025: 7% Drop Tests Key Support as ETFs, Stablecoin News and AI Models Clash on Forecasts

XRP Price Today, December 1, 2025: 7% Drop Tests Key Support as ETFs, Stablecoin News and AI Models Clash on Forecasts

XRP is starting December on the back foot. After a strong year of fundamentals but choppy price action, the token has been hit by a fresh market-wide sell‑off, leaving traders watching a tight band of support just above $2 and debating whether December brings a relief rally or deeper correction. XRP Price Today: Sharp Pullback as December Opens As of December 1, 2025, XRP is trading around $2.0–$2.1, down roughly 6–7% over the past 24 hours. It slipped alongside the broader crypto market, with Bitcoin dropping to about $86k and Ethereum to roughly $2.8k, while total crypto market capitalization fell around 5% to just over $3
1 December 2025
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Coinbase (COIN) Stock Crashes in Crypto Sell-Off – Can It Bounce Back?

Coinbase Walks Away From $2 Billion BVNK Deal as UK Weighs Strict Stablecoin Caps

Exclusive talks end without a deal, Fortune reports, while the Bank of England’s proposed holding limits draw industry fire and cloud the outlook for sterling stablecoins. Decrypt+1 Published: November 12, 2025 Key Points What Happened Coinbase has scrapped plans to acquire London-based stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK after entering exclusive talks in October. The deal, pegged at about $2 billion, would have marked one of the sector’s larger transactions this year. A Coinbase spokesperson confirmed the breakup was mutual but did not provide a reason. Decrypt Fortune first reported the talks had collapsed; Coinbase had been seen as the front-runner after
12 November 2025
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Switzerland crosses the crypto Rubicon: TWINT opens to CHF stablecoins & e‑ID as strong franc fuels bond boom — Nov 6, 2025

Switzerland crosses the crypto Rubicon: TWINT opens to CHF stablecoins & e‑ID as strong franc fuels bond boom — Nov 6, 2025

Dateline: Nov 6, 2025 — Switzerland’s carefully managed pivot into digital money and identity gathered pace today, with fresh commentary from the Financial Times amplifying the country’s regulatory push on stablecoins while the payments champion TWINT advances plans to integrate CHF‑backed tokens and the national e‑ID. In parallel, a resurgent Swiss franc is reshaping debt markets, handing bond issuers unusually attractive funding windows in francs. Global Capital+3Financial Times+3TWINT+3 What’s new today The regulatory backbone: Switzerland’s stablecoin blueprint On Oct 22, 2025, the Federal Council launched a public consultation to update the Financial Institutions Act (FinIA) and related laws. The plan
6 November 2025
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XRP Price Explosion: How Ripple’s Legal Triumph, New Partnerships and ETF Buzz Could Propel XRP Beyond $4 in 2025

XRP Price EXPLOSION? SEC Victory, ETF Hype & $50M Stablecoin Spark Rally

Sources: Verified crypto news and analysis (Reuters, CoinMarketCap, crypto news outlets, and tech blogs). For example, Reuters confirms the SEC case closurereuters.com and CoinMarketCap shows XRP’s price and volumecoinmarketcap.com. Recent analyses (e.g. BeInCrypto, Cointelegraph, CoinMarketCap Academy, ts2.tech) provide on-chain data and expert commentarybeincrypto.comtradingview.comts2.techts2.tech. Together, these highlight why XRP’s price action, regulatory status, volume patterns, adoption by banks/charities, and expert forecasts all matter for investors today.
1 November 2025
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Kyrgyzstan Launches National Stablecoin on Binance’s BNB Chain – Here’s Why It Matters

Kyrgyzstan Launches National Stablecoin on Binance’s BNB Chain – Here’s Why It Matters

Kyrgyzstan’s Bold Step into State-Backed Crypto In a landmark for Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan has officially introduced a national digital currency in two forms: a som-pegged stablecoin and a central bank digital currency pilot. President Sadyr Japarov announced that the new stablecoin “KGST” – designed to maintain a 1:1 value with the Kyrgyzstani som – launched on Binance’s BNB Chain reuters.com. Simultaneously, the government unveiled a digital version of the som (a CBDC) now ready for government payment use reuters.com. This dual launch positions Kyrgyzstan among the first countries worldwide to deploy both a stablecoin and a CBDC together. It’s a
27 October 2025
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Stock Market Today

SGX share price dips at week’s end after record profit; what investors watch next

SGX share price dips at week’s end after record profit; what investors watch next

7 February 2026
Singapore Exchange shares closed 0.4% lower at S$17.57 on Friday, despite reporting record half-year results and a higher dividend earlier in the week. Broker targets diverged after the update, with Maybank and DBS raising targets while Citi stayed bearish. Investors are watching for signs of momentum from derivatives and equity-market reforms as the next session opens Monday.
South32 share price drops 4% in ASX rout — what investors watch before results

South32 share price drops 4% in ASX rout — what investors watch before results

7 February 2026
South32 shares fell 4.1% to A$4.41 Friday as Australian miners dropped in the worst ASX session since April 2025. The S&P/ASX 200 lost 2%, erasing almost A$70 billion in value. South32’s half-year results and interim dividend decision are set for Feb. 12. Markets reopen Monday with investors watching for further volatility.
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