Stablecoins gain traction in treasuries
A recent survey shows 70–74% of finance leaders now see digital assets and stablecoins as essential for treasury and working‑capital optimization, with fintechs leading adoption while banks focus on custody. Firms are citing stablecoins for faster liquidity and improved capital efficiency. (x.com)
Ripple published an early preview of its 2026 Global Digital Asset Survey on March 19, 2026, based on responses from more than 1,000 finance leaders across banks, asset managers, fintechs and corporates. (ripple.com) The preview reports that 31% of fintech respondents already use stablecoins to collect customer payments and 29% accept payments directly in stablecoins, while 47% of fintechs prefer to build solutions in‑house versus 14% of corporates. (ripple.com) The survey ranks custody as a top partner requirement—89% of tokenization evaluators named digital‑asset custody their single most important partner factor—and finds 97% of respondents require ISO or SOC II security certifications. (ripple.com) Independent market data notes the global stablecoin market capitalization exceeded $300 billion in early March 2026, underscoring the asset class’s scale ahead of broader treasury integrations. (coin360.com) Ripple says it has invested nearly $4 billion across the crypto ecosystem and completed multiple 2025 acquisitions—including a now‑closed $1 billion purchase of GTreasury and a $200 million acquisition of Rail—to add treasury intelligence and virtual‑account stablecoin rails to its payments stack. (ripple.com) Platform metrics from Fireblocks show stablecoins accounted for nearly half of transaction volume on its platform in 2024 and that Fireblocks processes over 35 million stablecoin transactions monthly, indicating existing infrastructure throughput for institutional treasury activity. (fireblocks.com)
