Can Your Bank’s IT Meet the Challenge of Digital Assets?

When the GENIUS Act was passed in July 2025, it seemed like a starting gun for banks and credit unions. Dozens of financial institutions had explored digital assets in the prior years, but many hesitated to get involved, unsure whether such activities were permissible.

Passage of the legislation — in full, Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act — has started the implementing regulatory process, and the challenge has shifted from compliance to infrastructure.

Key point. Stablecoins, tokenization and blockchain-based transactions in general pose the largest infrastructure platform shift for banking since the advent of the internet. These systems will accelerate an already prominent trend toward cloud-native “side core” processing systems.

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