Banking

On November 12, 2026, Germany’s largest lender, Deutsche Bank, officially went live with its institutional digital asset custody service.

On November 1, 2026, Ripple executed its scheduled monthly unlock of 1 billion XRP tokens from its ledger escrow system, valued at approximately $1.25 billion based on prevailing market rates.

Ripple has received final regulatory approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank charter.

Payward Inc. — the parent company behind major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken — has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Finland-based Saldo Bank.

Russia has officially crossed from theoretical testing into live public-sector execution.

Digital banking giant Revolut became the center of a major cybersecurity controversy following a sophisticated social engineering and data exposure incident.

The Deutsche Bundesbank has officially initiated trials utilizing Prividium, a permissioned blockchain infrastructure framework developed by Matter Labs using ZKsync zero-knowledge technology.

Institutional banking infrastructure crossed a major operational milestone in August 2026.

Citigroup (Citi) announced major downward revisions to its 12-month price targets for both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).