Fintech Ruminations · 19 September 2026 · Industry Analysis

Faster rails, same old rules

Fintech Ruminations

The stablecoin-based settlement layer for cross-border transactions does not eliminate AML and compliance obligations—customer acceptance policies, KYC/KYB, Travel Rule, RFIs, and transaction monitoring all remain mandatory and largely unchanged, since compliance is a regulatory requirement imposed on system participants, not an architectural problem that new rails solve.

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