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Eurasian fintech and stablecoins

Eurasian fintech news: stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, instant payment systems, neobanks and tokenised money across Eurasian markets.

Money is being rebuilt in the region at the same time as the corridors are: instant payment rails, central bank digital currency pilots, licensed stablecoin issuance and fast-growing digital banks.

We cover the regulation, the licences and the settlement plumbing — with attention to what actually clears cross-border trade rather than to token prices.

The BRICS alliance has officially announced plans to launch BRICS Pay in 2026.

Economy

BRICS Pay Moves From Talk Toward Reality - Finance Chiefs Back Connected Payment Systems

BRICS has taken another concrete step toward building a cross-border payment architecture connecting its member economies. Meeting in India ahead of this weekend’s leaders’ summit in New Delhi, BRICS finance ministers and central-bank governors formally backed continued work on making national payment systems interoperable and developing faster, cheaper and safer cross-border payments.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 4 min read

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China is a front-runner in the global race to launch central bank digital currencies (CBDC)

Crypto

Digital Ruble vs Digital Yuan - Can Russia and China Build a Sanctions-Resistant Payment Network?

Russia's mass-market digital ruble rollout begins just as China's digital yuan is moving increasingly into cross-border trade. Together, the two systems raise a strategically important possibility: direct digital settlement between two of Eurasia's largest economies without depending on dollar clearing or Western correspondent banks. The technology increasingly exists. The more difficult questions are interoperability, exchange rates, regulation and whether Beijing actually wants to move that quickly.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 10:53 · 4 min read

Crypto
Economy
Russia
China
Finance
Trade

The Digital Ruble launches. Already a staggering 85% of all transactions in Russia are now conducted without physical currency, surging to 90% or higher in 2026.

Finance

Russia Launches the Digital Ruble - Moscow Moves Ahead of Europe as America Bets on Stablecoins

Russia begins the large-scale rollout of the digital ruble today, 1 September 2026, moving its central-bank digital currency from a controlled experiment into everyday banking. The project puts Russia years ahead of the planned digital euro in public deployment — but follows a fundamentally different model from the United States, which has rejected a federal CBDC and is instead building its digital-money strategy around privately issued dollar stablecoins.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 09:47 · 4 min read

Digital Ruble
Crypto
Russia
Euro
Economy

Tinkoff bank launched back in 2009 as the first branchless bank.

Finance

Beyond Revolut: How Eurasia Is Reshaping Digital Banking

Revolut became the symbol of Europe's fintech revolution. But branchless digital banking was already being built in Eurasia years earlier — and today's regional leaders are taking the model beyond banking into payments, commerce, investment and super-app ecosystems.

By EuroAsia.News · 20 August 2026 · 14:19 · 3 min read

Finance
Banking
SuperApps