Bitcoin may have a roughly 77% chance of reaching new all-time highs within a year if historical BTC price patterns repeat.
Key points:
Bitcoin reduces its drawdown from all-time highs from 50% to 35% with its rebound to $80,000.
History shows that new all-time highs have come within a year during similar events.
The Buffett indicator could be calling Bitcoin’s new $160,000 record highs in advance.
BTC price drawdown: Odds favor new all-time high
New research from network economist Timothy Peterson released on Tuesday shows what happens when BTC/USD claws back significant losses.
“I looked at every time Bitcoin went from a -50% drawdown to a -35% drawdown (the situation we are in today),” he revealed in a post on X.
Bitcoin dipped below $60,000 in late February, a move that brought its drawdown versus its $126,200 all-time highs beyond 50%.
Since then, conditions have eased, and price currently trades around $81,000. Against its October 2025 peak, the pair is 35% lower, per data from TradingView.
As Peterson confirms in an accompanying chart, such moves have characterized price action throughout its past bear markets. What is more exciting for Bitcoin bulls, however, is what traditionally comes next.
He added that “7 out of 9 times it hit a new all-time high within a year.”
The last time that a similar recovery took place was at the end of the 2022 bear market, which saw a maximum drawdown of just over 70%.
Data from onchain analytics platform Glassnode shows that it took until December 2023 for that correction to become 35% against all-time highs from two years prior.
Bitcoin’s new record high then came in March 2024.
BTC price drawdowns from all-time highs. Source: Glassnode
Bitcoin “looks cheap” amid $160,000 target
Despite uncertainty over geopolitical and macroeconomic conditions going forward, Bitcoin is not without its bullish predictions this month.
Related: BTC price target becomes $85K next: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Examining Bitcoin versus gold, Matthew Sigel, head of digital asset research at VanEck, offered $160,000 per coin as a conservative estimate.
Sigel reported that the so-called Buffett indicator — the ratio of the total US stock market to GDP named after Warren Buffett — implies a BTC comeback move.
“Bitcoin looks cheap,” he told X followers on Monday.
“If it regains the 35x XBT/XAU cross implied by current levels of the Buffett Indicator, we’re looking at $160k, and that’s just catching up to where equities already are.”
BTC/USD versus Buffett indicator. Source: Matthew Sigel/X
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The US Senate Banking Committee’s crypto market structure push is running into a dense wall of amendments ahead of Thursday’s markup, with lawmakers filing more than 100 proposed changes to the CLARITY Act. The amendment rush puts stablecoin rewards, crypto firms’ access to the Federal Reserve system and even the use of digital assets for tax payments at the center of Washington’s latest fight over crypto regulation.
According to Politico, committee members submitted more than 100 amendments before the markup vote. Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that Senator Elizabeth Warren alone filed more than 40 amendments, including one that would prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing master accounts to crypto companies. Terrett also flagged an amendment from Senator Jack Reed that would “prohibit crypto from being used as legal tender, for example, to pay taxes.”
That language would cut directly against one of the industry’s longer-running policy goals: expanding digital assets beyond investment and trading into payments, settlement and public-sector use cases. Terrett noted the contrast with prior pro-Bitcoin tax-payment proposals, writing that Representative Warren Davidson had introduced a bill last year “to do that very thing” with BTC.
Crypto Bill Enters High-Stakes Senate Markup
The latest clash comes after Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, Senator Cynthia Lummis and Senator Thom Tillis released new market structure text that will serve as the basis for the committee markup. The committee said the text reflects negotiations with Democrats and input from lawmakers, regulators, law enforcement, financial institutions, innovators and consumer advocates. Scott framed the bill as a consumer-protection and national-competitiveness measure.
“Over the past year, we have listened, negotiated, and strengthened this bill because families, small businesses, investors, and innovators all benefit from clear rules of the road,” Scott said. “This bill reflects serious, good-faith work across the Committee and delivers the certainty, safeguards, and accountability Americans deserve.”
The most immediate fault line remains stablecoin rewards. The Senate text would ban rewards on idle stablecoin balances that closely resemble bank deposits, while allowing rewards tied to transaction-based activity, such as stablecoin payments. The SEC, CFTC and Treasury Department would be tasked with issuing joint rules to implement that provision.
Banks are not satisfied. Brendan Pedersen reported that Reed and Senator Tina Smith filed an amendment that would incorporate bank-requested changes to stablecoin yield restrictions, forcing lawmakers to choose between the crypto and banking industries. The amendment would target rewards “substantially similar” to deposit interest, a phrase that goes to the core of the banking lobby’s argument: that crypto platforms should not be allowed to compete with deposits through yield-like incentives while avoiding bank-style regulation.
Terrett reported separately that American Bankers Association members had sent more than 8,000 letters to Senate offices urging lawmakers to revise the stablecoin-yield compromise. The ABA has argued that the current language does not adequately close what it calls a loophole allowing exchanges and other digital asset service providers to bypass the GENIUS Act’s ban on interest or yield on payment stablecoins.
The bill also reaches well beyond stablecoins. Digital commodity exchanges, brokers and dealers would be treated as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act, bringing them into anti-money-laundering, customer-identification and due-diligence regimes. The text would also allow crypto companies to raise up to $50 million annually, and up to $200 million total, without SEC registration, while clarifying that tokenized securities remain subject to securities law.
The political path is still fragile. Terrett said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared engaged in a Democratic member meeting and eager for members to reach a “yes” on the CLARITY Act, but stressed that ethics negotiations needed to move further before Thursday’s markup. Warren, the committee’s top Democrat, has been pressing that issue hard, saying the bill “puts investors, our national security and our entire financial system at risk” and would “turbocharge Donald Trump’s crypto corruption” without stronger conflict-of-interest provisions.
At press time, the total crypto market cap stood at $2.67 trillion.
Total crypto market cap faces the 100-week EMA, 1-week chart | Source: TOTAL on TradingView.com
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Charles Schwab, the brokerage giant that manages around $12 trillion in client assets, began the rollout of its spot cryptocurrency trading service for retail customers in the U.S.
An initial group of clients can now trade bitcoin BTC$80,949.32 and ether (ETH) on the Schwab Crypto platform, the company posted on X on Tuesday.
In July last year, CEO Rick Wurster said the company planned to introduce crypto trading in the near future, with a timeframe of first-half 2026 confirmed last month.
The Westlake, Texas-headquartered firm already offers crypto investments through exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and futures trading.
The ability to directly trade the actual assets through a company with the scale of Schwab could be a pivotal accelerator for mainstream crypto adoption.
As one of the largest brokerage firms in the world, Schwab could offer its roughly 35 million clients the opportunity to trade BTC and ETH in an environment they already recognize rather than having to register with a standalone crypto exchange.
Bitcoin BTC$80,785.91 is fighting a key technical battle and is trading just below two closely watched long-term trend indicators: the 200-day Simple Moving Average (200SMA) at $82,455 and the 200-day Exponential Moving Average (200EMA) at $82,027, according to Glassnode data.
The 200SMA calculates the average closing price across the last 200 days, weighting each day equally. The 200EMA uses the same 200-day window but places greater emphasis on more recent prices, making it slightly more responsive to current market conditions.
Together, they form a confluence resistance zone around $82,000–$82,500 that bitcoin must convincingly reclaim to signal a recovery of its long-term uptrend. Bitcoin first lost the 200DMA in late November 2025, when the price rolled over from $108,000. A brief recovery attempt in January failed to reclaim the level around $97,000 and by early February 2026 bitcoin had fallen to $60,000.
What gives bulls reason for cautious optimism is that bitcoin is holding above several significant cost basis levels, according to CheckonChain. The 128-day Moving Average sits at $75,700, representing the average price paid by buyers over that shorter timeframe and a level BTCX has successfully defended.
The True Market Mean, currently at $78,200, reflects the average price of every bitcoin at the time it last moved onchain, essentially representing the aggregate cost basis of the entire active market.
The Short-Term Holder Cost Basis at $78,400 tracks the average acquisition price of investors who bought within the last 155 days, a group historically prone to panic selling when underwater.
Bitcoin trading above all three suggests the majority of recent buyers remain in profit, reducing sell pressure from forced liquidations or panic selling. The key zone to watch is whether bitcoin can flip the $82,000-$82,500 into support.
What have been the developments of the fintech, digital and wider economic development that is driving the economy and society of the North African nation of Morocco?
Morocco has long occupied a distinctive place in North Africa’s economic story. It is not the region’s largest market, nor its most hydrocarbon-rich, yet it has steadily built a reputation for institutional reform, industrial diversification, and outward-facing connectivity. In previous research I wrote about, Morocco’s fintech ecosystem in 2024 was already showing meaningful momentum. This was supported by a modernising banking sector, a growing startup base, and an increasingly ambitious digital agenda.
At present, that trajectory has become more defined: Morocco is no longer simply adopting fintech trends, but trying to shape a broader digital-financial model of its own.
The Moroccan economy remains anchored in a diversified mix of manufacturing, agriculture, phosphates, automotive production, aerospace, tourism, and services. Casablanca continues to serve as the country’s principal financial hub, reinforced by the role of Casablanca Finance City as a bridge between Morocco, Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean. In banking, Attijariwafa Bank remains one of the country’s most influential institutions and describes itself as a leader in Morocco’s financial sector.
Despite progress, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is over $4,000. It fares better than much of its African peers but still has room for further growth.
The growing fintech sector
View over Casablanca, Morocco IMAGE SOURCE GETTY
That wider economic base has helped Morocco build one of the more substantial fintech ecosystems in Africa. The exact number varies by methodology, but recent estimates suggest the market ranges from more than 40 active fintech solutions to around 95 fintech companies. That spread reflects the reality of a market in transition: some counts focus on operational startups, while others include broader fintech-linked companies.
Either way, the direction is clear. Morocco’s ecosystem is larger and more varied than it was only a few years ago, spanning payments, lending, regtech, merchant services, digital banking enablement, and emerging embedded-finance models. Examples of fintechs in the country are: OnePay (online bill payments), MeilleurCreditmmo (comparison platform), and SYPEX (trade management solutions).
What is especially striking at present is that Morocco’s fintech story now sits inside a much wider national digital transformation push. The government’s Digital Morocco 2030 strategy presents digital technology as a driver of social and economic development, with goals around public-service modernisation, digital inclusion, startup creation, and stronger digital exports. Reporting around the strategy has highlighted ambitions such as creating 1,000 startups by this year and 3,000 by 2030, alongside broader support for innovation financing and ecosystem development. In other words, fintech in Morocco is no longer an isolated sectoral story; it is part of a larger state-backed vision of economic modernisation.
The financial sector sits at the centre of that transition. Bank Al-Maghrib (the country’s central bank) has continued to modernise the country’s payment architecture, which includes interbank payment systems as well as retail and securities-settlement infrastructure. The past few years has seen the central bank move further into areas that increasingly define next-generation finance. In late 2024, Governor Abdellatif Jouahri said a draft law regulating crypto-assets was moving through the adoption process, even though cryptocurrencies have been banned since 2017. By mid-last year, the bank was also actively exploring a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for peer-to-peer and cross-border payments, in cooperation with international institutions including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
At the retail level, payments innovation has accelerated. Morocco’s payment market has been opening up further, with increasing room for licensed payment institutions and partnerships designed to expand acceptance and usage. One example came last year, when Vantage Payment Systems and Mastercard announced a collaboration to advance payment innovation and financial inclusion in Morocco. This matters because Morocco’s fintech evolution is still, above all else, a payments-led story: a market where digitising everyday transactions remains one of the clearest paths to broader inclusion and commercial adoption.
Financial and digital inclusion
Financial inclusion remains a core part of the narrative. Public reporting on Bank Al-Maghrib data showed that 58 per cent of adult residents had at least one active bank account by the end of 2024, up from 54 per cent a year earlier. That is meaningful progress, but it also underlines the distance still to travel in a country where millions remain outside the formal financial system. Earlier financial inclusion reporting also highlighted persistent gaps affecting women and rural communities, showing that account ownership growth alone does not eliminate structural disparities. Morocco’s challenge in 2026 is therefore twofold: increase access further, while also ensuring that access translates into regular, useful digital financial usage.
Institutionally, the ecosystem has become more organised. Early last year, public and private stakeholders established the Morocco Fintech Center, an association designed to support fintechs through mentoring, incubation, acceleration, skills development, regulatory guidance, and access to financing. That is an important marker of maturity. Morocco is no longer relying solely on individual startups or bank initiatives; it is building connective tissue around the ecosystem. Programmes such as the Morocco Fintech Accelerator have added to that momentum, while partnerships between banks and fintech support bodies suggest a more collaborative market structure than a purely disruptive one.
There are now several examples of Moroccan fintechs and fintech-adjacent firms attracting attention. Beyond examples mentioned earlier, recent profiles include companies such as PayTic (payment operations automation), Agenz (applies digital tools to real estate transactions), and Chari (embedded finance). These examples suggest an ecosystem that is becoming more diverse, even if payments and infrastructure remain its centre of gravity.
Beyond finance narrowly defined, Morocco is trying to position itself as a wider digital hub. Early this year, Reuters reported that the country was targeting a $10 billion AI contribution to GDP by 2030, alongside AI centres, expanded data infrastructure, and a larger digitally skilled workforce. That ambition complements the logic already visible in fintech: Morocco is betting that digital capability, institutional credibility, and regional connectivity can reinforce one another. Yet the country still faces constraints, including uneven inclusion, funding gaps for startups, and the challenge of translating policy ambition into broad-based daily usage.
Morocco’s real strength lies in how it combines market size, reform momentum, regulatory evolution, and African-facing connectivity. Morocco’s fintech journey is moving from potential to structure. With stronger institutions, a clearer digital strategy, and a growing support ecosystem, it has real momentum. The next phase will depend on widening inclusion, deepening everyday digital payments usage, and turning policy ambition into scale that reaches well beyond Casablanca.
Richie is a global economic development advisor and Managing Partner of Santos-Diaz LLC, specializing in international trade and foreign direct investment across the UK, Middle East, and North America. With over 15 years of experience and a Masters from SOAS University of London, he has advised high-level governments and multinational corporates while contributing to major outlets like Forbes and the World Economic Forum. Currently based in Dubai, he leverages his background in emerging markets and RegTech to bridge the gap between global policy and private sector growth.
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Members of the US Senate Banking Committee have filed more than 100 amendments to a crypto market structure bill set for markup on Thursday, with the proposed changes mostly related to stablecoins, software developers and ethics.
According to a list obtained by Politico, Democratic senators have proposed dozens of changes, while Republicans are seeking slight adjustments to the bill.
It is not clear what the specific details of each amendment are, but some concern issues the committee has been seeking to solve for months, including stablecoin yield, crypto software developer protections and ethics provisions.
The list offers insight into the issues the committee will likely debate at the bill’s markup on Thursday as it seeks to advance the measure to the Senate floor. The Senate Banking Committee indefinitely delayed a previous markup in January after major crypto lobbyist Coinbase withdrew support for the bill.
The legislation aims to divide how US market regulators oversee crypto, with the House passing a version of it in July called the CLARITY Act. Crypto and banking lobbyists, along with lawmakers, have fought over provisions on stablecoins and whether government officials should be barred from involvement in crypto.
Further restrictions on offering stablecoin yields have been the bill’s most contentious provision, with banking and crypto lobbyists failing to reach an agreement after months of negotiations.
A version of the bill released on Monday banned third-party platforms like crypto exchanges from offering yield on stablecoins in a way that is “functionally equivalent” to the payment of interest on an interest-bearing bank deposit.
The list shows Democratic Senators Jack Reed and Tina Smith introducing an amendment to “strengthen [the] prohibition on interest/yield by using a ‘substantially similar’ test rather than an ‘equivalence’ test.”
An excerpt of the leaked list showing amendments for debate by Senator Jack Reed, with one supported by Senator Tina Smith. Source: Politico
Another planned amendment from Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen pitches an ethics provision that Democrats and some Republicans have supported, which would bar the president, vice president, senior officials, members of Congress and their families from owning, promoting or being affiliated with crypto.
Related: Seven Democrats seen as ‘key’ to advancing CLARITY Act: Galaxy
Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto also plans an amendment protecting software developers by “creating a safe harbor from criminal liability for not registering as a money transmitter,” a provision that is supported by many crypto groups.
Other amendments concern sanctions, institutions engaging in crypto, and one from Democratic Senator Andy Kim that seeks to reestablish the Justice Department’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, which the department dismantled in April last year.
Republicans have a majority on the Banking Committee and in the Senate, but some party members, such as Senator Thom Tillis, have said they won’t support the bill without certain provisions.
Republicans also control the Senate, but will need some Democrats onside to pass it with a three-fifths majority to end any potential debate on the bill.
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Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) in Bhutan is offering an accelerated licensing pathway for crypto and fintech companies already regulated in hubs such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, as the Himalayan territory pushes to position itself as a new South Asian financial center.
The framework allows qualified companies to incorporate, obtain authorization from local regulators and open a corporate bank account through a coordinated process tied to DK Bank, GMC’s official banking partner, according to a Tuesday release shared with Cointelegraph.
The move reflects growing competition among emerging jurisdictions seeking to attract crypto firms with streamlined regulation, banking access and tax incentives, as global regulators tighten oversight and warn against regulatory arbitrage.
DK Bank will still run standard Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks, but Jigdrel Singay, a GMC board member and digital assets and fintech lead, told Cointelegraph that companies that clear the licensing process are expected to gain access to banking services through the coordinated framework.
Singay stressed that the system is not a passport for offshore licenses and that firms must be authorized under GMC’s own rules.
Existing approvals in other hubs mainly serve to streamline due diligence and cut down on duplicated documentation, he said, adding that regulatory standards and ongoing supervision remain under GMC’s control rather than being outsourced to foreign regulators, unlike the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework, which currently allows licensed firms to operate across the bloc.
Related: Europe’s MiCA regime puts smaller crypto firms under pressure
Tax incentives and Bitcoin reserves underpin GMC’s pitch
Tax and incentives are another pillar of the pitch. GMC offers targeted 0% corporate tax for priority sectors depending on investment levels, a territorial tax system broadly aligned with Singapore and Hong Kong, and exemptions on capital gains, dividends and inheritance, according to the release.
GMC’s Bitcoin Pledge. Source: GMC
Foreign employees can qualify for income tax breaks through 2030, and Singay said the aim is to encourage “real” operations and job creation rather than structures set up primarily to shift profits for tax purposes.
The project is underwritten, at least in part, by Bitcoin (BTC). Bhutan announced a “Bitcoin Development Pledge” in late 2025, committing up to 10,000 BTC from sovereign reserves to support GMC’s long-term build-out, with officials emphasizing at the time that the assets would be held as a strategic reserve rather than sold.
This year, however, blockchain analytics firms pointed to a series of large BTC outflows linked to Bhutan, suggesting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of potential sales, including a further 100 BTC (roughly $8.1 million) flagged by Arkham Tuesday, though those analyses are based on address-tagging and transaction heuristics that are not definitive.
Singay said reports of Bitcoin sales related to GMC were “incorrect” and said BTC remains pledged as part of the city’s strategic reserves.
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Circle shared a recap of its Q1 2026 earnings call led by Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Jeremy Allaire.
Circle, the stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure company, published a recap from its Q1 2026 earnings call on May 11, 2026, featuring remarks from Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Jeremy Allaire. The recap was shared via the company’s official X account, summarizing financial performance and updates from the first quarter of 2026.
Circle is a major player in the stablecoin space, known for issuing USDC, one of the largest USD-pegged stablecoins in cryptocurrency. The Q1 earnings call typically covers the company’s financial results, product developments, and strategic initiatives across its blockchain and digital asset services.
Sources: Circle
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XRP is back at the top of South Korean trading screens.
The token’s won pair was the most traded market on Upbit over the past 24 hours, with about $110.9 million in volume, ahead of bitcoin’s $88.6 million and ether’s $67 million, CoinGecko data shows. On Bithumb, XRP/KRW recorded about $41 million in volume, ranking second behind USDT/KRW and above both BTC/KRW and ETH/KRW.
That matters because Korea has long been one of XRP’s most active speculative markets. Bitcoin and ether usually dominate global exchange activity, but Korean traders have repeatedly pushed XRP into the top volume slot during periods of heightened interest, often before volatility expands.
Price-action has been muted, however. XRP traded near $1.44 to $1.45 across the two exchanges, up roughly 3% on the week. That beats bitcoin over the same period, but trails stronger gains in BNB and Solana’s SOL, both of which have risen around 8%.
The setup is less about a finished breakout and more about pressure building under a level the market has not been able to clear.
Data from CoinDesk analytics shows XRP is still battling the $1.49 to $1.50 zone, an area that has repeatedly rejected upside attempts since February. The token has continued to compress below that resistance while holding higher lows above the broader $1.40 support floor.
That kind of structure tends to matter when volume starts rotating in. Repeated tests can weaken resistance, and liquidity above current levels appears relatively thin. If sellers are absorbed near $1.50, a sustained move through that level could accelerate faster than the recent price action suggests.
Korean activity also stands out against a choppier local macro backdrop.
South Korea’s Kospi fell sharply Tuesday after comments from a presidential policy aide raised questions over how the government could return part of the country’s AI-driven corporate gains to citizens through tax revenue.
The index remains one of the world’s strongest markets this year, powered by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, but the pullback showed how sensitive local risk appetite has become after a steep rally.
That makes the XRP flow more notable. Traders are not simply buying everything tied to Korean risk appetite. They are concentrating activity in one of the market’s most familiar high-beta crypto names.
High volume does not guarantee upside, however. It can also mark aggressive selling or late positioning near resistance. But when XRP starts leading Korean exchange volumes while price compresses below a long-tested ceiling, the market usually pays attention.
Keel, a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform based in Manchester, is officially stepping into the public eye after operating quietly for the past two years. The company emerges from stealth having already achieved profitability and secured a growing roster of fintech clients across multiple international markets.
Originally founded in 2019 under the name Frost, the business began as a consumer neobank that integrated digital banking with energy-switching tools. Frost successfully attracted more than 18,000 users and processed tens of millions of pounds in transaction volume before shifting market dynamics forced a major corporate reinvention. Keel has now been entirely reworked into an infrastructure provider shaped by that first-hand operating experience.
A strategic pivot to sustainable infrastructure
Paweł Ołtuszyk, co-founder and CEO of Keel
Over the last two years, Keel secured regulatory approval for its new business model and fully adapted its APIs for external use. Operating as an FCA-authorised Electronic Money Institution with Visa Principal Membership, the platform generated its first commercial revenue in 2024 and has since delivered consistent quarter-on-quarter growth.
Paweł Ołtuszyk, co-founder and CEO of Keel, explained that the company reached a critical crossroads in 2022 when the energy switching market stalled and wiped out Frost’s core revenue stream. Despite having acquisition offers on the table, the leadership team chose to step back and focus on creating long-term value based on incoming external demand for Frost’s underlying infrastructure.
“We made a deliberate decision not to go looking for growth before finding product-market fit,” Ołtuszyk stated. He emphasized the company’s focus on building in a strategic and sustainable way, noting that securing clients took precedence over marketing, and achieving revenue came before attempting to scale.
Integrated capabilities for a global client base
Now publicly available, Keel provides a highly integrated model designed to drastically reduce operational complexity for its users. Accessible through a single API, the platform offers multi-currency and virtual accounts, open banking capabilities, and Visa card issuance across debit, prepaid, and credit products under its own BIN sponsorship. Additionally, it provides broad access to major domestic and international payment rails, including Faster Payments, BACS, CHAPS, SEPA, SWIFT, ACH, and Fedwire.
Crucially, Keel also embeds regulatory compliance directly into its offering, providing built-in KYC, AML, fraud detection, and transaction monitoring capabilities. This comprehensive, single-platform approach has already attracted a global client base spanning the neobanking, remittance, treasury, and property sectors. Currently, Keel’s customers include fintechs backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors, as well as a Southeast Asian platform serving over 750,000 users.
