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Banco Santander is a major Spanish multinational bank offering retail, commercial, and corporate banking services across Europe and the Americas.
Iberdrola, BBVA and Santander ran a EUR150 million syndicated loan on DLT and call it the first live deal with its full lifecycle on-chain. The claimed savings are so far an argument, and a lender from outside the founding group would supply the first evidence.
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AT&T agreed to sell its Mexican wireless unit to Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 billion in cash. Bloomberg puts AT&T's outlay on the unit at roughly $4.4 billion, so the sale recovers about 45% of it.
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HSBC and Ant Digital tested AI agents making micropayments, typically under $2, in tokenized HSBC deposits settled in real time on a blockchain testnet. HSBC ran settlement and the risk checks itself, so every payment an agent made passed a bank control and moved as a bank deposit.
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Reported losses to criminals who hijack UK email and social media accounts reached 6.3 million pounds in 2025-26, up from 1.2 million, police data shows. The base is small, but fraud that borrows a person's identity gives employers a reason to review how staff log in.
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The Clearing House, owned by 25 of the largest US banks, picked Quant to power a tokenized deposit network it expects to launch in the first half of 2027. QNT's 300% weekly rally is a bet that fees from those banks will one day run through the token.
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AI skill is now something UBS graduate candidates have to evidence rather than mention. The interesting problem belongs to whoever scores it, because responsible judgment and tool enthusiasm look identical for the first ten minutes.
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Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC settled Britain's first interbank transfers of tokenised sterling deposits in three pilot transactions. The Bank of England favours such tokens over private stablecoins, yet it still sketches a system where the two convert at par.
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A loan quoted below par is the only continuously updated figure anyone has on Oracle's quarter-built New Mexico AI campus, and whether it prices the buildings or the tenant's rating decides how much a stall report matters.
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Thirteen banks including Deutsche Bank and Santander went live on September 21 with four ledger operators, and the ECB will put part of its own 23 billion euro portfolio into tokenised public sector debt.
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Mastercard's Agent Pay has now cleared three national-first payments at European incumbent issuers in six months, while PYMNTS Intelligence research shows consumer interest in delegating spending authority falling as AI use rises.
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A Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Santander token for commercial clients is moving in parallel. Of all these efforts, only the tokenized-deposit network carries a date, aimed at the first half of 2027.
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Every megawatt of both North Lanarkshire buildings is contracted, and a £202m National Wealth Fund guarantee still covers 80 percent of the commercial bank tranche.
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