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  "id": 16186889,
  "title": "Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand central banks expand cross-border stablecoin initiative involving Ripple, Visa and Mastercard",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/singapore-malaysia-and-thailand-central-banks-expand-cross-border",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-23T12:55:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Block",
    "slug": "the-block",
    "url": "https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-10-23-singapore-malaysia-and-thailand-central-banks-expand-cross-border-stablecoin-initiative-involving-ripple-visa-and-mastercard-426492"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Malaysia and Thailand have joined Singapore's BLOOM initiative for cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit settlement.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: Visa is in late-stage talks to buy stablecoin custody and infrastructure provider Fireblocks for ~$2.5B, its first acquisition in the stablecoin sector (Lucinda Shen/Axios)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/sources-visa-is-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-stablecoin-custody-and",
        "published": "2026-10-22T12:40:01.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}