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Stablecoins are moving from pilot projects into live bank infrastructure — but the path from proof-of-concept to production is anything but simple. Stephen Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Banking at Fireblocks, joins John Lagman of Bloomberg at REDeFiNE Tomorrow 2026 to break down where banks actually stand with stablecoins: the infrastructure decisions they have to make, why most are still in early-stage evaluation, and what a scaled operating model looks like.

Pilots are running. Proof-of-concepts are live. But when does stablecoin activity at banks actually become a production revenue line? Stephen Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer at Fireblocks, lays out the three specific signals he is watching: large regional and GSIB banks enabling stablecoin acceptance as a corporate treasury product, banks initiating stablecoin payouts directly from DDA accounts, and the emergence of bank-to-bank stablecoin networks with compliant messaging infrastructure for cross-border settlement.

Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov sat down with Bloomberg at Money 20/20 Europe to launch Flow, a new product that lets payment companies, merchants, and fintechs accept and send stablecoins as simply as Plaid streamlined traditional payments. He breaks down where stablecoin demand is actually coming from, why cross-border corridors are driving adoption, and what a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin could mean for dollar dominance.

Fireblocks Co-Founder and CEO Michael Shaulov joined NYSE Live to discuss the partnership powering Western Union's first stablecoin, USDPT, and what it signals for the next wave of institutional digital asset adoption. In this conversation with NYSE's Ashley Mastronardi, Michael covers: Fireblocks supports $14T+ in digital asset transactions across 150+ blockchains and powers the infrastructure behind payment giants, banks, and exchanges modernizing how money moves.

Stablecoin transaction volumes have hit $33 trillion. Hong Kong just issued its first stablecoin licenses. In this panel from Fintech Fireside Asia, leaders from Fireblocks, Coinbase, FOMO Pay, and AWS break down what's actually happening on the ground across APAC: real use cases, shifting risk models, and where institutional adoption goes next. Panelists: Dan Sleep, Head of Business Solutions, APAC, Fireblocks Hassan Ahmed, Country Director Singapore, Coinbase Zack Yang, Co-founder, FOMO Pay Naveen Gupta, Head of Business Development, Payments, APJ Leader, AWS.

The 4 digital asset use cases banks are monetizing in 2026: custody, stablecoin transaction banking, trading and brokerage, and tokenization. John Hallahan, Director of Business Solutions and Advisory for EMEA at Fireblocks, walks through how leading banks are building a single horizontal infrastructure stack to deliver across all four use cases, with real customer examples from BNY, ABN AMRO, Revolut, Banking Circle, JPMorgan, Citi, and DBS.

Blockchain adoption in banking is moving from experimentation to production. In this session, Fireblocks Financial Markets Economist Neil Chopra breaks down where banks, fintechs, and non-bank competitors are already live, what wallet infrastructure means for onchain ownership and control, and why stablecoins are proving the utility case that's pulling the rest of the market forward.

Owning the UI used to mean owning the customer. On blockchain, whoever controls the wallet controls the relationship. In this clip from the Banking Bootcamp, Fireblocks Financial Markets Economist Neil Chopra breaks down why wallet infrastructure is becoming the central layer for digital asset services at banks, and walks through the three use cases scaling in production today: custody and brokerage, stablecoin payments, and tokenization.

Fireblocks now supports 95 banks globally, and the adoption curve is accelerating. In this clip from the Banking Bootcamp, Financial Markets Economist Neil Chopra explains what's driving the shift: regulatory clarity, proven utility, and infrastructure that plugs into how banks already operate. This is Episode 1 of the Banking Bootcamp, a three-part series produced in partnership with American Banker.

Stablecoins are the obvious choice for cross-border payments. But scaling them means solving for interoperability across chains, stablecoins, and ecosystems, and integrating with the core banking and treasury systems institutions already use. In this clip from Fintech Fireside Asia, Dan Sleep, Head of Business Solutions APAC at Fireblocks, breaks down why infrastructure is the connective layer and how Fireblocks Network for Payments is bridging issuers, movers, and custodians across the value chain.